Barbara Smoker, the nonagenarian but still
wickedly witty secularist, posted a beauty of a “thought” on the National
Secular Society’s weekly Newsline a couple of weeks ago which I’m still
giggling at. So much, in fact, that it would be mean not to share it.
“The pathological condition of Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is the agreed diagnosis for those who feel they have
to keep performing certain rituals in order to avoid some illogical misfortune.
But that definition likewise applies to
people who belong to a particular religion and who assiduously practise its
prescribed rituals.
Perhaps, therefore, we could use the term
"religious OCD" as a telling synonym for fundamentalism.”
Maybe we should, Barbara. In fact, maybe I just
will.
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