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In what ways does our society today showcase fundamentalism?

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Fundamentalism is still present in various ways the religious teachings are adopted around the world. Not only can we notice the rise of extremism in Muslim ideas (even though Islam itself presents the religion of peace), many Christian and Jewish people are adopting more and more strict religious learnings. We see the Orthodox Jewish ideas, as well as Christian countries that are still non-secular.

Ireland, for example, still had church tied to politics and has only recently started to tackle the problems of the history of the Catholic church and its abuses of power, as well as laws on LGBT issues and abortion. These days there is a burning question of abortion in Poland, a deeply religious and Catholic country, where the government tries to enforce Catholic ideas in the law.

The US has plenty of similar examples of small scale. Many of the communities are deeply religious, but in a sense, they do not accept any ideas that contradict the Bible. There is always an ongoing discussion about health and science in schools, and which theories and pieces of knowledge should be presented. In the presidential race, we can also see that religion, Christianity, and God are taken into the account, and used as a way of conveying certain ideas. We can spot this despite the US as a country does not have one official religion, and its politics should not be tied to its teaching.

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