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Friday, February 10, 2006
Back Again
I finallly found some time to add something to my site. It is more articles on the crookedness of fundamentalism/religion. But before that I just wanted to say to all of you to ask me to vist your sites sometime. I forget to vist a lot of peoples' sites, so ask if I haven't been to yours in forever, and I can go there whenever I can find time to visit this website.
Anyways, here is the article.
"It has been observed that one of the characteristics of fundamentalism is that among patriarchialistic religions, at least, chavinism is a clear, almost defining characteristic. Indeed, it has been my experience that the degree of chavinism within a religion seems to closely parallel the degree to which the organization could be charactarized as fundamentalist.
Based on that observation, I hereby propose what I'm somewhat laughingly calling "Index of Fundamentalism." Here is just a measure of the degree to which women's rights are abrogated by the religion's doctrine and the culture that the religion creates. It is scored like this: If a religious organization is characterized by each or any of the statements below, add the points indicated to the score.
-Does the religion deny to women the same religious privileges and authority it accords to men (such as denying the priesthood)? If so, add 2 points
-Does the religion seek to deny women secular (i.e., usually political) power (e.g., the right to vote, run for office, etc.)? If so, add 3 points.
-Does the religion impose greater 'moral' burdens on women than it does men (i.e., promote a double standard)? If so, add 4 points.
-Does the religion seek to promote unquestioning submission of wives to their husbands? If so, add 4 points.
-Does the religion promote involuntary marriage arrangements (such as arranged marriages, involuntary polygamy, denial of divorce initiated by the wife, etc.)? If so, add 5 points.
-Does the religion discourage the participation of non-parenting wives in the workforce? If so, add 3 points.
-If the above question is no, does the religion discourage the participation of parenting wives in the workforce regardless of economic circumstances? If so, add 3 points.
-Does the religion discourage the education of women? If so, add 4 points.
-Does the religion encourage women to remain at home, with contact with other women and men in the community discouraged? If so, add 5 points.
-Does the religion accept or promote the treatment of women as property or a commodity, or treat wives as servants? If so, add 5 points.
-Does the religion seek to deny women their reproductive freedom (taking a "pro-life" position on abortion, or discouraging or interfering with artificial contraception)? If so, add 5 points.
-Does the religion seek to deny women the full right of self-determination, dignity and self respect that they accord men? If so, add 4 points.
-Does the religion publicly humiliate women who violate the prohibitions that apply only to women? If so, add 3 points.
By applying this little index, it will help measure the degree of intolerance and bigotry associated with a fundamentalist religion. This, then, becomes an index to how dangerous a religion is.
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