' 86 = Sunday, October 12, 1997 — North Shore News

A helief system has

Lica mi reli-

gious fundamentalism as

worldwide movements is

among the most signifi-

cant events of the latter

. half of this century.

°” Often the two are com-

bined.

Not one major religious denomination has been unaf- - fected. The Islamic fundamen- ..» talist movement conirols Iran and Libya and has become a _ major force in Egypt, the _ Sugar and ‘Algeria: Jewish fun- ~_ damentalism is on the rise in

~ North America and in Israel that fundamentalism has imposed itself on a largely secu-

lar society. Christian fundamentalists in the ‘United States and Canada

have been extremely successful in. using the media and are wielding political power dispro- portionate to their numbers. All fundamentalist movements carry fringe elements ready to exert their will through vio- lence.”, ~~

Islamic fundamentalists have slain thousands. Jewish funda- mentalists have killed Palestinians and fellow Jews in

and attacked and beaten women trying to remove restrictions on religious partici- pation. In North America, Christian fundamentalists have bombed clinics and wounded and murdered physicians who perform legal abortions.

The membership of moder- ate or mainline denominations dectines. In spite of occasional

xposures of manipulations, frauds, and sighed ps fundamen- talists have attracted. members, money and support.

In many ways, nationalist tnovements are similar. Their claim — if only we could con- trol our destiny life would be immeasurably — parallels the fundamentalists’ claim — if only everybody could be con-

to our views and prac-

tices, the world would be saved.

Get the Anglos out of

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Quebec, say the nationalists. Get the Africans out of France, the Turks out of Germany, the East Indians out of Fiji, the French out of Corsica, the Chinese out of Indonesia and on and on. Some of this may rest on just enough truth to make it minimally plausible.

There may be exploitation of one group by another. But what usually results after the

“success” of nationalist move- ments is simply the substirition of one of their own exploiters for a “foreign” exploiter, at great cost to economic stability and cultural and political free- doms.

Why are fundamentalist and nationalist movements so attrac- abe offer dogma that

to people who can’t stand qualification, uncertainty, and incompleteness. And they

promise an alternative to greedy, vulgar, and crass materi- alism. But above all, they have demonstrated thar, unlike eco- nomic and political reform movements, thev can succeed in attaining their objectives quickly and decisively.

The most basic aspect of life is material. No matter how intense a "s beliefs, with- out food, clothing and shelter no one can maintain a religious or political life. And right now, the plain truth is that people do not believe they have effective political or economic contro} no matter what party is in the dri- ver’s seat.

By contrast, through the sufficient exercise of wall Quebec can separate, Algeria can becoine an Islamic state, and people can bring them-

selves to believe that, regardless

achievements may eventually: es lead to disappointment; but the rewards of a belief system that cannot be tested in cuir com

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