Why is Fundamental religion in any form associated with so much negativity?

Because fanatism is rigidity, and rigidity is attribute of death. There is no rigidity in anything living.

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The big problem with religion is that it required the blind acceptance of unanimous writings that often state things that do not necessarily gel with reality as we see it. In any society religions sees its hey day under conditions where its leaders are able to persecute those that object their ideas. Inevitably if education and knowledge are introduced to the ordinary man many of these ideas alienate thinking people.

I would say it involves the various teachings and our collective refusal to take a moment to determine what the actual truth is. Religion minus the truth equals confusion of all kinds.

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From Dictionary.com, "A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism."

People tend to view Fundamentalists negatively because no one likes to be told they are wrong. If a Fundamentalist (of any religion) tells me I am going to hell because I do not share their exact beliefs, that's pretty upsetting. When so many religions are supposed to be based on love and forgiveness of others, the strict belief system of a Fundamentalist can make them appear hypocritical, which is not exactly a desired trait.

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"Why is Fundamental religion in any form associated with so much negativity?"

In my opinion it is the element of people drawn into the religion.

After my personal experiences I developed a great hatred and disdain for the people and their religion. Something very odd and adnormal happens to the mind of people in religion.

These people would not let it sink in that I wanted absolutely nothing to do with them as a people or fellowship them or their religion.

Their concept of life and what is acceptable human interaction was odd for me and very uncomfortable. Plus, I would never go along with the sexist role for women. I had preferred a quiet private married life only to suffer attempts to force me into the public eye and involve me in topics and debates I sincerely have no interest in.

They kept trying to convert me into something I do not believe in, do not need in my life or ever really believed in.

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I believe it is because they teach that we are unworthy. When a person sees themselves as unworthy, they look for the unworthiness in others. The way I see it is that our worthiness was never in question because we inherited it. We just need to become familiar with it. These misunderstandings come from an attempt to interpret the Bible literally, when it requires language of mind to get the correct pictures.

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I think a lot of the negativity associated with "fundamentalism" is due to the bad things said about it by the media. I think the media is so anti-Christian that they are constantly rubbing that in our faces by repeating the lie that fundamentalism in itself is a bad thing. Fundamentalism is simply belief in the fundamental teachings of one's religion, whether that be Christianity or another religion. Not all Fundamentalists are like the wild-eyed nuts portrayed on TV. But the media want you to think they are all like that.

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The reason it's considered NEGATIVE is because belief requires absolutes which MOST PEOPLE do NOT want to accept.

Religion requires intolerance to anything outside of GOD'S WORD and perfect will. It will always seem negative to those who refuse to be governed by laws, principles, morals or absolutes in order to please God. Most people are out to please themeselves and when faced with "conviction" that what they are doing is wrong, they see it as a "negative" affect.

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There are undoubtedly multiple reasons for this.

Firstly, the media in all its forms loves to report anything and everything negative about any fundamental religion. This is partly a product of the media generally knowing that bad news sells better than good news. It is also part of an inherent anti-Biblical bias, in the case specifically of Christianity. Thus, all who believe the Bible are Bible-bashing fundamentalists. All positive things are ignored -particularly many lives transformed for the better. Peace and joy and rest and the multitude of blessings which knowing Jesus are totally ignored. These form a great and vital part of the true Christian faith.

Secondly, Christian truth cuts both ways. It is not all sweetness and light. It tells it the way it is. It tells what is good as well as what is bad. People who 'love darkness rather than light' do not like being told that their doings are 'works of darkness.' So, to avoid facing the consequences of their wrong choices they place a negative connotation on the message, rather than heed it.

Thirdly, those who actually believe the Bible to be true have a responsibility to proclaim what God says. They tell how people can know God, but even before that people need to know why they need Jesus Christ. Modern man has lost to a high degree a sense of what the Bible calls sin - a sense of right and wrong, or at least they define it in relativistic terms, according to whatever they feel is good. One of he least popular of all things, is to point people to actual wrong and actual accountability, which every person faces when they die. This is regarded as negativity, when it is just the truth, which people don't like to hear. In any case, the whole point of it is to have people receive the incredible blessing of knowing Jesus Christ and His eternal peace. It is not negativity as an end in itself. That would be wrong.

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