From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 05:07:23 BST
Sam said:
I don't want to second guess my considered response (in the related thread)
but put simply, the impression I gained from what you quoted was that Scalia
was a (Biblical) fundamentalist, and I have a prejudice against
fundamentalists. ...
When I read what he had said, it was clear that he wasn't a fundamentalist,
although he is clearly a conservative Catholic.
DMB says:
Now there's a distinction without a difference. When it comes to a
discussion of social level values the distance between Protesant
fundamentalism and conservative Catholicism is a fraction of an inch.
Conservative Catholics ARE fundamentalist in their thinking. Demoninational
differences just don't matter. They're both pre-modern and literalistic.
Religion doesn't even matter. Islamic fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism,
whatever. In each case we're still talking about a mythical worldview, a
pre-modern, anti-intellectual worldview. And in each case, this worldviews,
when applied to politics, result in anti-democratic, fascistic governments
and the loss of rights, especially for those who do not share the faith.
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