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Religion continues to offer its minions that vital slice of delusion.
Fundamentalists' Anonymous--a group of former religious extremists
who have bolted from the reactionary Christian movement--says that
to the fundamentalist, Christ is a device for resolving every puzzle.
Submission to religious authority, the Fundamentalist believes, will
give him control over the vagaries of life.
As we've seen before, modern fundamentalist leaders are
following in the footsteps of Pope Hildebrand and attempting to
translate their grip over the illusion of control into political power,
using organizational entities like The Christian Coalition, Christian
Voice, The American Coalition for Traditional Values, the American
Family Association, and the resuscitated Moral Majority to implement
the "divine covenant" by which some ministers proclaim that God has
destined his true believers to rule America.  Like Pope Hildebrand in
the eleventh century, the Fundamentalists have not been content to
reign supreme in matters of the soul.  They would like to rule the earth.
The memes of medieval Christianity and modern
fundamentalism offer an illusion that duplicates the health-giving force
which saved a rat in a cage from harm.  They hold out the illusion of
power over the shocks and pains of life.  So did the words of Chairman
Mao.
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