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    Religion continues to offer its minions that vital slice of delusion.

    Fundamentalists' Anonymous--a group of former religious extremists

    who have bolted from the reactionary Christian movement--says that

    to the fundamentalist, Christ is a device for resolving every puzzle.

    Submission to religious authority, the Fundamentalist believes, will

    give him control over the vagaries of life.

    As we've seen before, modern fundamentalist leaders are

    following in the footsteps of Pope Hildebrand and attempting to

    translate their grip over the illusion of control into political power,

    using organizational entities like The Christian Coalition, Christian

    Voice, The American Coalition for Traditional Values, the American

    Family Association, and the resuscitated Moral Majority to implement

    the "divine covenant" by which some ministers proclaim that God has

    destined his true believers to rule America.  Like Pope Hildebrand in

    the eleventh century, the Fundamentalists have not been content to

    reign supreme in matters of the soul.  They would like to rule the earth.

    The memes of medieval Christianity and modern

    fundamentalism offer an illusion that duplicates the health-giving force

    which saved a rat in a cage from harm.  They hold out the illusion of

    power over the shocks and pains of life.  So did the words of Chairman

    Mao.

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