I actually wrote this ten years ago in response to a group of fundamentalist organizations lobbying to cut funding for education:
Fundamentalism: Power over the uneducated.
The problem with this affliction is that by it’s own meaning it is limiting. Fundamentals are what you teach children. This is not something that adults should strive to acheive. If all you want is the fundamentals, then you short change yourself. Fundamentalist leaders want the child mind. They want people that have yet to obtain the ability to think critically. They want the moron. That way they can get them to buy into their agenda, and let’s face it, to buy their books. Lazy people want things to be simple. They don’t want anything that requires critical thought and analysis. They don’t want to be challenged. Therefore, Fundamentalists will always look good to the mentally inferior. I live near many of the intellectually challenged. That’s why the Fundamentalists do so well here. The only way to combat this disease is to educate. That’s why many Fundamentalist groups want to cut eductation. Educated people remove their power.