Reply #30: As someone who is a target of fundies [View All]

[Occulus]

let me just say that from that point of view you appear to be apologizing for them. A fundie is a fundie is a fundie, and they're easy to spot. Yes, it's a very broad brush, but in this case, it's a correct view of this particular group.

Fundies do exactly what the above poster contends; I, however, would apply a tighter cycle. Every 15-20 years, they gain a bit of power, which they then lose, only to start gaining it again. It's a cycle that as far as I can tell from my reading of history began in earnest around the turn of the last century. Prohibition, McCarthyism, Vietnam (well, the whole Cold War, but even then, they would gain and lose power throughout), the Reagan era, and now the Bush regime- each time, eventually sane people have stopped them- and, make no mistake, the fundies are insane.

The very worst of the fundies seek to, ultimately, usurp our elected government; see Katherine Yurica's The Despoiling of America for an analysis of their "plans". These people are real, and dead serious about what they're trying to do; I myself have in the past dealt with people who believe "the Bible should replace the Constitution". They quite simply cannot be reasoned with. No argument works on them- ever.

They are mad and chillingly dangerous. Their points of view deserve no consideration, their attitudes deserve to be utterly repudiated, and their ultimate goals deserve to be mercilessly shut down.