Caulfield never dealt with the big questions

[kalmakka]

Living in the city, you get a certain feel for the beat of it. However, there are some questions that are hard to answer. Take the fundamentalists (as I will refer to them), who hang around the big shopping streets carrying signs reading "the end is nigh; this is a bad time to be gay" and other things to that effect. Now, I'm not going to complain

Comments

[_dw]

I think it's very easy, really. Their actions speak louder than their words about their convictions.

Of course, if you were Dennett or Dawkins, you would say that the entire "The end is nigh" part is just the fundamentalist memetic group's equivalent of the gp120 protein, and thus doesn't really have any meaning, as such. Myself, I think they (D&D) reduce too much, but it's very tempting to say that.

[sayh]

I must have missed something, for all my trips around Oslo malls, I have never seen those signs OvO. I've seen such people on pictures from the US, and heard about a demonstration in Oslo, but never run into them myself. Where do you tend to encounter them?

I don't like the term fundamentalist, since that is supposedly someone who are fundamentally Christian, whereas these people have gotten the message all messed up. Extremists may be a better term. *OvO*

[kalmakka]

They usually hang around Karl Johans gate. Often right by the train station or at Egertorget.

I never referred to these people as actually belonging to any religion. I think they consider themselves Christians, even though they seem fond of stone-throwing. I just think they're fundamentally sign-carrying. And fundamentally messed up.

[sayh]

Well at last they are not trying to become vice president in the US.

From Saturday Night Live: (i porobably dont remember it totally correct, but anway)

"Palin, what is your view on same sex marriage?"
"No, I believe that marriage is a sacred union between unwilling teenagers of the opposite sex"