American Fundamentalism
I read a short story by Brian Stableford called, "A Short History of Death," in which he advanced the idea that Puritanism came about after the spread of syphillis through Europe in the 16th century, as "repressive sexual morality was the only truly effective weapon against its spread." Puritanism, and its habits of thought, he says, are directly responsible for the economic and political systems in the West. How interesting that we have our new American fundamentalism in the face of another fatal STD. This is the motivating energy behind a lot of the anti-gay agenda.
Thursday, April 07, 2005
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