Fundamentalists have a
❂ Belief in truth
Fundamentalists have a
❂ Bi-polar view of the world
Good
❂ versus
Evil
Fundamentalists have a preference for
❂ Revealed
over
❂ discovered
truth
Fundamentalists have an Intolerance of
❂ ambiguity
❂ confounding ideas
❂ opposition
Their dislike of opposition often leads to
❂ Xenophobia
❂ fear of other
even
❂ racism
❂ violence
Whilst holders of any particular ideologies
❂ claim their belief system is congruent
❂ presents a consistent explanation
❂ a world view
❂ they often actually hold conflictual even contradictory ideas simultaneously
For example
❂ Migrants are untrustworthy
❂ incompetent
❂ lazy
and therefore
❂ aren’t worth paying award wages to.
❂ Migrants undercut wages
❂ will work for next to nothing
❂ they get rich quick
There is little recognition that in Australia the non-Indigenous population are all migrants
George Mikes, the Hungarian Jewish writer says
a migrant is someone who comes down the gang plank
after you
Western fundamentalists suggest
Refugees and asylum seekers
❂ are some form of non-human
❂ they don’t have as many rights as dogs and cats in this country
❂ the RSPCA at least takes an interest in such animals’ welfare and does not jail them for having the wrong paper work.
“We will decide who comes to this country and the manner in which they come.” [Howard at Liberal campaign launch Sydney 2001]
❂ Phillip Adams on Late Night Live 20/2/2002
said the best letter on throwing children over board
and Hollingsworth’s handling of sexual abuse complaints
suggested that……
❂ If Howard had any ethics he would sack Hollingsworth
and
❂ if Hollingsworth has any ethics he would sack Howard.
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