FACTNet’s Special Section on Religious Fundamentalism and Governments

Notice: FACTNet has a duty to educate on the dangers of cults in general, mind control and religious fundamentalism wherever there is potential for harm. History has repeatedly and conclusively proven that nowhere is there greater potential for harm then when destructive cultic behavior and religious fundamentalism become part of government behavior. The information and links below are not intended to single our any particular government or political party, but are provided so you may formulate your own opinions about the real and potential dangers being discussed.

• Important Reading on Religious Fundamentalism

• Apocalyptic Violence

• Other Lectures and works by Robert Jay Lifton

• Religious Fundamentalism Index page

• Latest Fundamentalism News

Important Reading on Religious Fundamentalism

• Fundamentalism By Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

• The Clash of Two Fundamentalisms By Henri Tincq

• The Terror of Fundamentalism  Each religion aspires to inspire the nations of the world to embrace their own universal truths.

• Wikipedia: Theocratic parties and movements

• The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party a public information project from TheocracyWatch.org

• The war on words  Reading is a democratic activity, argues Philip Pullman, and theocracies discourage it. Khomeini's Iran and the Soviet Union had similarly degraded views of literature - and Bush's America is heading the same way

• Theocracy in America What Gentile life in Mormon Utah can teach us about church and state

• Wikipedia: Fundamentalism

• Why The "Fundamentalist" Approach To Religion Must Be Wrong A hypertext essay by Scott Bidstrup

• GLOBAL VISION : SCIENCE & THE SACRED : ON FUNDAMENTALISM

• What is Fundamentalism and Why is It So Dangerous?

• FUNDAMENTALISM AND TERRORISM Robert M. Young, Ph.D.

• The Lure of Fundamentalism by Fanita English

• A Psychological Analysis of Fundamentalism

• Notes on the Founding Fathers and the Separation of Church and State by R.P. Nettelhorst

• Our Godless Constitution by Brooke Allen

• Terrorism and Cults (Audio) by Steven Hassan

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Apocalyptic Violence
by Robert Jay Lifton

With no definition of victory in the war on terrorism the U.S. may be entering a long period of perpetual war. The president invokes the name of God on a regular basis. Clearly, with such power on our side, how can we lose? Al-Qaeda and the Islamists are also certain that the almighty is in their corner. Can God be hedging his bets and backing both sides? Each day brings new reports of gains in Iraq. Parts of towns and cities are destroyed in order to save them. U.S. military commanders claim the enemy is Satan. Buried in the back pages was a report from "The Lancet," the respected British journal, conservatively estimating that more than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed, over half of them women and children.

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Apocalyptic Violence full lecture.
Where recorded: Amherst, MA. Date recorded: 9 Nov 2004

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Other Lectures and works by Robert Jay Lifton

• Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World
  (Purchase Book)

• Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World
  (Read excerpts from the Book)

• Bill Moyers Interviews Robert Jay Lifton
  (Read Transcript of an interview)

• Destroying the World to Save It
  (Transcript of Speech before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on November 4, 1999)

• Violent Purification
  (Essay by Robert Jay Lifton)

• Conditions of Atrocity
  (Essay by Robert Jay Lifton)

• Americans as Survivors—Vietnam and Iraq
  (Collection of Audio clips from a Lecture and Panel Discussion, Nov. 9 and 10, 2004

• The Meaning of War
  (Transcript of a Sarah Ruth van Gelder interview of Robert Jay Lifton)

• Concerns about Mass Violence: Terrorism, Response, and America's Struggles with Vulnerability
  (Harvard University: Report from the Group on Mass Violence)

• Evil, the Self, and Survival
  (Transcript and Video. Harry Kreisler interviews Robert Jay Lifton. Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley)
  
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