The only way past fundamentalism is the slow way

CNN.com - Books - Raising a holy ruckus - September 21, 2000: "The great tragedy of literalist Christianity, which focuses on the historical Jesus, is that it ends up dividing itself from everyone else and we end up with these horrendous religious divisions that have bedeviled the world" The best way past fundamentalism is people waking up with no help from Hitchens or Dawkins or others who swing a large cudgel against the weak thing that is the actual substance of orthodoxy. When people see that they are actually destined to be part of a much larger whole than any confined community, they tend to doff the creedal armor and become fallible and iffy and actual and real human beings.

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