Fundamentalism

Before starting: I've made this entry trying to be as objective as possible. You have no activities to do in the blog, but we'll do a debate next day in class, that's the importance of being neutral.

Fundamentalism has two definitions:
1. The belief that every word of the Bible is divinely inspired and therefore true.
2. A movement favouring strict observance of the teachings of the Koran and Islamic law.

To continue, I want to say that fundamentalism is subjective, due to that some people think that fundamentalism is a part of the Religious freedom.

We all know very well what's wrong with other countries' religions, such as Islam. We all know that Islamic fundamentalism is based on chauvinism, homophobia and people doing war (Yihad), and although it's a pity, a lot of countries have as law the Koran (the Muslim Holy Book), and apply them without allowing any critic inside their own country.

But, have we looked for Catholic fundamentalism? Sometimes, we forget that Catholic fundamentalist exist, although it's true that, luckily, it isn't as extremist as Islam. Spain has a majority of Catholics, but we haven't a state religion, so the law isn't applied as the Bible says.

I want you to remember that (if you allow me to insert my opinion, luckily) what I'm going to talk about is about Fundamentalism, not Catholicism, although it's true that Fundamentalism is based on what the Bible says.

To explain you the most important facts about Catholic fundamentalism, I want you to see these pictures. 
First of all, I want you to explain a bit more about a group inside Catholic fundamentalism, the creationists. These people say that the The Origin of the Species, the well-known Darwin's book is false, so they support that God created human beings. But, what's the position of the Church about that? The Church was against this book, but after a lot of controversy, it was accepted in 1950 in the encyclical Humani Generis. 
* Source of the information.



I'll try to take more care to talk about the following topics, gay people and contraception. First of all: the Church is against homosexual marriage, but it says that it's not against homosexual people. They can be gay, but in secret. In theory, a Catholic gay mustn't have boyfriend and of course mustn't have sex, and the same with Catholic lesbians. But I wonder: how a institution can accept homosexuals if the same institution doesn't give them the rights that a heterosexual have?

The right party in Spain, PP (usually bound to the Catholic Church), voted against the law which allowed this type of marriage, although it was finally aprooved. In response, they presented an appeal of unconstitutionality, what means that they were trying to abolish the law. Finally, the appeal was rejected.
* Source of the first paragraph.
* Source of the second paragraph.

Another point Church is against is contraception, it doesn't matter if it's with condoms or by abortion. 
*Source about contraception related with condoms.
*Source about contraception related with abortion.

In the past, Catholic fundamentalists did Crusades to expell the Muslims and to try to recover what they call "Holy land". Nowadays, Crusades as form of violence don't exist.

To finish, I want to organise a class debate in Spanish all together. I'll bring the questions next day.

Bye class!