I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Secret Sun, the other day, and I came upon a fantastic comment regarding the underlying metaphor of zombie movies.
AdamI wrote:
Yes, the dogmatism of science can be a wall. The problem is that walls can be protective. The eternal enemy of all thought, all reason, all art, all science, all intuition, and all culture is outside. It is called religious fundamentalism.
Imagine that we are in a house surrounded by zombies. The zombies are fanatical religious fundamentalism and mindless superstition. Rational scientific materialism is like the boards over the doors and the windows. It's keeping the zombies out. Yet, we really would like to go for a walk and (like every zombie movie) we feel that maybe we forgot something important in our car. There's a box of ammo and two gallons of water in the front seat!
Yet the instant we crack the door, in reach the decaying hands. "There is no separation of church and state!" one moans. Another groans "God haaaates fagssss..." A hideous disfigured Irving Kristol staggers about in the distance... "there are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people..." he gurgles... Thousands of con artists and quack medical scammers mill around.
Can we make a run for the car and get back without letting them in?
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Whomever wrote this spent a lot of time thinking about it. Or so it seems. However, it's a good analogy and I dig it.
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