Posted on 10/28/2016 6:19:36 PM PDT by kindred
A scholar from Northwestern University argued recently that Christian Fundamentalism poses a greater threat to the United States than Islamic terrorism. Catherine M. Wallace, who is a faculty member at Northwestern’s School of Medicine and a Christian herself, argues that fundamentalist access to United States armaments is the number one threat to the nation’s security. Wallace argues that because radical Christians are in positions of power and control the nuclear codes, they pose a greater danger to American society than do Islamic terrorists. “If [anything Islamic] wanted to attack an American city, they had to hijack an airliner. If they want to blow up a concert, they need to put bombs on their own children and send young men in to kill themselves… that kind of radicalism [Christian fundamentalism] in control of nuclear codes was a much, much greater threat,” Wallace claimed. According to The Chicago Maroon, the student newspaper of the University of Chicago, Wallace believes that a literal reading of the Bible is responsible for the threats posed by Christian fundamentalists. In Wallace’s view, this radicalism stems from a literal reading of the Bible. “Nobody in the ancient world would have read the Bible literally,” Wallace said. The idea of a literal reading is a thoroughly modern phenomenon, according to Wallace—church fathers of the past would discourage anyone from taking the Bible literally. Therefore, according to Wallace, the fundamentalists have it all wrong. “Christian fundamentalism is a malignant form of Christianity,” Wallace said. In her opinion, their literalist reading creates misconceptions of what the Bible means...
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“Wallace argues that because radical Christians are in positions of power and control the nuclear codes”
The past 8 years, you can count the radical mooslums on Klownie the Kenyan’s kingdom in the White Hut. What Christians?
Amazing how many stupid people are in charge of educating our children.
More proof that Liberal Fools abound and have no clue or clear perception of current reality.
The LSD at Northwestern must be awesome!
Somebody is off their meds.
The biggest threat to civilization is the lack of critical paragraphs!!
Putin hacked the paragraph returns!
Supposedly all these years in control, and it only resulted in the most prosperous, and powerful nation in history.
I think we could use some more of that.
Go Trump!
And we are supposed to bail out the suckers who borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay to hear such crap.
-—Wallace argues that because radical Christians are in positions of power and control the nuclear codes-—
This women must be insane...
Ms Wallace, are you stupid or just ignorant? Christians do not blow people up while saying ‘GOD is great’ or we don’t behead people. We don’t fly into skrscapers, either...
One absolute idiot dressed in the fake cloak of academe.
Yeah...All these barbaric Christians with their “honor killings” of their own daughters...Their cutting off heads of people who don’t believe as they do...Their degrading of all women, making them cover their whole bodies...
Oh.....wait....
She’s no Christian.
Another stupid liberal recreating reality to suit her views instead of the other way around.
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