Religious Rights
Jan. 14th, 2009 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiI got this idea. The term "Religious Right" seemed rather oxymoronic to me, as it seemed that many of the very right wing fundamentalist crowd were not really advocates for religious rights except for their right to worship as they please and to shove their faith down everyone else's throat. This idea intrigued me in playing with the dual meaning of right in a political sense and right in a sense of something someone is entitled to.
I have a seriously hard time with fundamentalism of any stripe. To state categorically that something is a fundamental truth, to me, indicates that the person has decided that all of the evidence to something is in, nothing else can be learned about it, and that is the end to all statements on the topic. It's a rather closed viewpoint to me, and also foreign to my mind. And before anyone gets their tail in a knot about this, I believe this falls on all sides of the fense. I've known many Vegan Fundamentalists, Pagan fundamentalists, and fundamentalists of may belief systems other than just the standard ones people think of when the term comes up. I also believe there is a strong fundamentalist undercurrent to the Athiest movement -- you can't prove a negative, and to categorically state that something dosn't exist is problematic. I was married to an Athiest for seven and a half years, and that was one area we simply didn't discuss because of the argument it would create. Also, most of the Athiests I've met, (but not all) actually disbelieve in the god of the Abrahamic faits, and that is what gets them to state that no god exists. That's like saying that since there is no such thing as Garlic Rosemary ice cream that no such thing as ice cream exists.
Religious Rights plays with this problem of people forcing their path on everyone else. The song is in AABABABAB form in A minor. (been writing a lot in that lately) The song came about in about three and a half hours, though I had a kernel of an idea in place before.
This finishes the Gypsy Heir tunes. I have one more to finish and another one to do from Evidence, but it looks like things are going to be done pretty quickly from here, and the process of polish and recording will start fairly soon now.
I have a seriously hard time with fundamentalism of any stripe. To state categorically that something is a fundamental truth, to me, indicates that the person has decided that all of the evidence to something is in, nothing else can be learned about it, and that is the end to all statements on the topic. It's a rather closed viewpoint to me, and also foreign to my mind. And before anyone gets their tail in a knot about this, I believe this falls on all sides of the fense. I've known many Vegan Fundamentalists, Pagan fundamentalists, and fundamentalists of may belief systems other than just the standard ones people think of when the term comes up. I also believe there is a strong fundamentalist undercurrent to the Athiest movement -- you can't prove a negative, and to categorically state that something dosn't exist is problematic. I was married to an Athiest for seven and a half years, and that was one area we simply didn't discuss because of the argument it would create. Also, most of the Athiests I've met, (but not all) actually disbelieve in the god of the Abrahamic faits, and that is what gets them to state that no god exists. That's like saying that since there is no such thing as Garlic Rosemary ice cream that no such thing as ice cream exists.
Religious Rights plays with this problem of people forcing their path on everyone else. The song is in AABABABAB form in A minor. (been writing a lot in that lately) The song came about in about three and a half hours, though I had a kernel of an idea in place before.
This finishes the Gypsy Heir tunes. I have one more to finish and another one to do from Evidence, but it looks like things are going to be done pretty quickly from here, and the process of polish and recording will start fairly soon now.
