Comparitive delusions

Except when they are opinions, similes, analogies, etc. Jackals are small dogs that live in Africa. I know you aren't really asserting that the posts you object to are somehow being typed by African wild dogs, but it's typical of you to say "truly" and "Facts are facts" when speaking of non factual opinion.But note that you are quite skillful and persistent in baiting the "jackals". I dont' think you are a martyr but you do state outrageous viewpoints that you know will bring an outcry and then you pretend to innocence and bewilderment about the responses you get. This is the game you play here. Been too long since I read Eric Berne's Games People Play to recall if he had a transactional analysis of it.You make references that you are tired of playing your game yet you still go on with it. I've no idea why. Maybe you do?I write this knowing there is a very good chance that you will respond by claiming that I am persecuting you. So let me anticipate that possiblity by admitting to you that I am persecuting you just like you want me to. It gives me great satisfaction that all the religious fundamentalist that self righteously pushed their antirational antiscientific smug self satisfied opinions on me when I was a mere child were wrong. I enjoy seeing how ridiculous fundamentalist thinking is and it gives me satisfaction to see how you can not justify the ancient nonsense that gives you a feeling of absolute rightness. You have chosen to embrace the prejudice mythologies of the dark ages and have come here for reasons that I haven't yet even been able to guess at.lfen

The fear component of your analysis seems to me a good possibility to explore. The phenomena of fundamentalism whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Moonies, Mormons or whatever does seem tied to authoritarianism in some respects. I don't want to commit a Godwinism but I'm thinking I should try to read the studies done about the good Germans who just went along with the Nazis out of conformity etc. Perhaps there lies insights into what appeals to fundamentalists of whatever persuassion.Laziness is probably part of it but I don't see it as being particularly unique to fundamentalism but just an aspect of human nature that impacts our beliefs as well as consumer and health behaviour among a wide selection of behaviours.lfen