'Nashville school bans "Harry Potter" series, claim books "risk conjuring evil spirits"'

[Yukaphile]

I'd hardly call him a radical. Maybe very right of center, but he's said a lot of stuff I agree with, or felt was very fair.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I'd hardly call him a radical. Maybe very right of center, but he's said a lot of stuff I agree with, or felt was very fair.

Ardently sticking to fundamentalist principals in spite of more broadly recognized socio political frameworks is pretty radical.

[Yukaphile]

How is he a fundamentalist?

[Yukaphile]

Let me tell you this. You call him a radical. He is ironically the person who has made me feel most welcome here, that I have something to contribute, and even if we disagree he's said I make him think, when my rather hard-line feelings and views had been too intense for others. I respect that. Lord knows I don't see eye-to-eye with some of his views, but if somebody like him can get along with a leftist who on the surface first looks like Fuzzy Necromancer with what others had termed his "SJWing" like me, then I'd hardly consider that extreme.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

How is he a fundamentalist?

I don't think clearspira is very radical.

[Yukaphile]

Well, I was more so addressing both you and Mecha82.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Well, I was more so addressing both you and Mecha82.

K. My answer doesn't change for that matte.r

[Mecha82]

How is he a fundamentalist?

From lot of things he has said that are political I have gotten impression that he is radical. He can only blame himself from that if he doesn't want others to think that he is one because all everyone on this forum has to go by from others is what they write and what they opinions seem to be.

[clearspira]

Yuka you should know that logic doesn't apply to radicals like him. They always think that everyone else is radical like them without being able to understand that there are those that don't belong to any of extremes.

My general view of all ideologies and religions is on the whole negative because ideologies and religions invite fundamentalist echo chamber group think based on there being an ''in-group'' and an ''out-group'' rather than free thought and discussion. I am for women's rights. I am for men's rights. I am not for the buckets of bullshit that people who call themselves feminists or MRAs frequently pull in its name and therefore I refuse to call myself either.

Feminism and MRA movement is a distraction from achieving equal rights.

God is another good example. If I ever believe in His existence for some reason I will never call myself a Christian because to do so also means stating that you believe in all the absurd bullshit that goes along with it: talking snakes, men walking on water, angels etc. None of that happened, its fiction. For someone with a 2019 understanding of science and history to believe any of these stories is beyond words. It also means being associated with all the people who justify bigotry and dark age science with the words ''but the Bible, in the Bible, the Bible says this'' etc.

Religion is a distraction from believing in God.

It also why as I have said to Kami often, that despite voting Leave in Brexit, I am greatly beginning to hate every politician that is supposedly flying my flag because my vote by association makes people believe I also believe in the shit they are pulling right now.

Being a Brexiter is a distraction from leaving the EU.

I am an individualist who believes that collectivist ideologies are an obstacle. These are my views and I am not apologising for them.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

That's pretty much classical liberal.