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Show c L FQEll! 71ByMcik ? IGustan For a philosophy that seems, in principal, to be in the business of re-affirming the dignity of man and his alleged eternalness, historical, histori-cal, fundamentalistic Christianity, in practice, seems disturbingly negative and pessimistic. Fundamentalist Funda-mentalist Christians fear death for it will almost certainly place their deterministically damned souls in the clutches of Satan and fundamentalist funda-mentalist Christians disdain the body, viewing it as a trap that constantly subverts the Soul by the enticements of "sinful" physical physi-cal pleasures. The way of death for most fundamentalistic funda-mentalistic Christians (and a good number of gentiles) is a ritual of almost palpable barbarism. In accordance ac-cordance with the Ceremony of Death, the body is carefully drained of blood, injected with all sorts of fluids meant to insure preservation and placed on display for days in order that the relatives and mourners can pay last (?) respects. Such ritual seems almost a frantic, neurotic re-assertion that death is not final. The body is preserved-just preserved-just in case the soul isn't-and treated with more respect and dignity than when it had a pulse and brainwaves. An aura of finality fina-lity pervades such burial serials and men of the cloth re-assure the bereaved that all is well. All the time, of course, the funeral fun-eral parlor is extorting exorbitant amounts of money from the family fam-ily of the deceased. Rather than being consistent with the injunction of Jesus which asserted that the living ought to be concerned with the living, vast sums of money are tied up to produce waxen complexions, rigid flesh and flowered lapels that are, somehow, supposed to remind the mourners of the deceased when heshe was a bit more pliable and rosy. Clearly, the way of death for the fundamentalist Christian (and others) is one of the dead burying their dead. If one says that the soul is trapped in the body, that the soul is deceived by the senses and subverted subver-ted by the wiles of the flesh, it easily folllows that the body is to be despised. Hence, early in Christian Chris-tian theology (which is largely Platonic in its notions of the ineffectiveness of the senses for the perception of the GoodGod), there was inculcated a horror ana revulsion at the sexual appetites that was to plague the Faith for millenia. ' I I 1 fd and empto,?; multiplication' 1 w Any use of sex J S'7pS , ;: as ev'l: the Devil ST in su action, " bvert Man's .da' from the cloistered,. JCt. Such notionsof thee jU bodV still cfe though fortunately,'0" have ben mfc. men,t of e beliefs sin." However, Qt irg (of all denominations! ida: faithful to avoid v book where any e uality is displayed. fi to portrayed sex new battleground!,. ment of the Truth T However, the points think, that many oft today are aimed at6- m and male chauvinis- T viewed as a mecb: Unl devoid of any emot woman is merely an ;: used and discarded. E. jection is not idenf: fundamentalist Christ D, Rather, sex, no me E context, is evil and r. - One can safely k Pr slaughtered and butch Pr name of God and k A and the same, you ' emerge with one's Sc. c" worse for it all. Bar a, of sexual actions as k love in films and It Spn0 ones eternal Soul t: Ftl damnation. In lieu of indulging i- J" cises in stupidity th-: m herein discussed, its" reasonable that the list Christian (Faith: their objections toll instead embrace : thought in the accep-goodness accep-goodness of the Also, the fundamer-tians fundamer-tians ought to empk portance of support: who are in need rather than lending barbaric way of cte accepted. I would think that say that such prof a long way to makirf in practice, a more f re-affirming faith. Ur , though, the Fundar I fence on the evil' and the support oft death are two po I firmly established I organization to oei altered by reason! |
