There runs through the fundamentalist belief system a deep dread of ambiguity, disorder and chaos. … It fosters a world of binary opposites: God and man, saved and unsaved, the church and the world, Christianity and secular humanism, male and female. These tidy pairings keep life from slipping back into a complicated nightmare. Reality, thus defined, is made predictable and understandable, something deeply comforting to believers who have had trouble coping with the messiness of human existence.. ~ Chris Hedges, American Fascists, p. 83

Black & white thinking ~ to me, this is the core definition of Fundamentalism.

Everything was either/or ~ which, as Hedges points out in his chapter titled “The Cult of Masculinity,” really does simplify the decision-making process and made our otherwise-overwhelming-world neat and tidy and easily comprehensible.

This is part 2 of a review of the chapter titled, “The Cult of Masculinity” from Chris Hedges’ book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. Click here for part 1. by Vyckie “The hypermasculinity of radical Christian conservativism, which crushes the independence and self-expression of women, is a way for men in [...]

by Vyckie Several years ago when I first began corresponding with my uncle, Ron, he referred me to an article on Alternet about Christian Dominionism ~ this was my first introduction to Chris Hedges, author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. I was amazed ~ and as a devoted Christian, more [...]