A good article indeed and gets to the nub of things. Whenever anyone says that a religion is behind an act of terrorism, believers jump up and down and talk about communism and fascism and the ills perpetrated in their name, as if that lets religion off the hook! The common factor, as this article points out, is blind faith, whether secular or religious.
As soon as we switch off our minds and stop asking and seeking, we run the risk of falling into this fundamentalist trap.
Most Christians amongst my friends are happy to admit that their faith is not blind; that more questions are left to be asked than answered, and I can deal with that. But blind faith to a tract, whether it be religious or political is indeed a dangerous thing.
As I have said several times, the danger with religion is that it deals in fundamentals (Why are we here? What are we meant to be doing with our lives? What happens when we die?) so, if it consists of blind faith, it has a natural tendency towards the sort of fundamentalism that we see being played out around the world.
