The Difference Between Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism
Aussie Dave | Oct 04, 2004 | 4 comments
Many people, including former US Presidential candidate Al Gore, have compared Christian fundamentalism to Islamic fundamentalism.
But there’s a huge difference, as illustrated by this statement by American evangelist Pat Robertson:
“The President has backed away from [the road map] but if he were to touch Jerusalem, he’d lose all evangelical support,” Robertson said. “Evangelicals would form a third party” because, though people “don’t know about” Gaza, Jerusalem is an entirely different matter.
In other words: “if you do x, then we’ll stop supporting you, and will run against you in elections”. As opposed to “if you do x, we’ll slice the head off this hostage.”
Ain’t democracy grand?
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
How about “if you do x, we’ll bomb your clinic.”, where x is performing an abortion.
The difference is that is a lunatic fringe of Christian fundamentalists. As for Islamic fundamentalists – don’t tell me it is just a fringe that supports terrorism.
I will agree that it’s a lunatic fringe of Christians, but not necessarily Christian *fundamentalists*.
And don’t even get me started on the loathesome popularity of Yigal Amir and Baruch Goldstein.
Yes, Islamic fundamentalism is much more of a problem today, but they’re hardly the only scary fundamentalists.