But in the meantime, the organization is bringing in millions of dollars as well as followers. This year, the group is sponsoring 18 giant conferences. With figures like that, it appears that it's more than the meek who will inherit the earth. Many members of fundamentalist religions were first seduced into it because it appeared to them to be a comforting religion. It promised to the person who felt lost in a society that is not perfect that, yes, there are simple answers to complex problems.
Many people find it hard to cope.
They see that the universe is not only complex but it is dangerous. There are diseases and death, floods and hurricanes, earthquakes and catastrophes. But it will ultimately occur to the fundamentalist that anyone or anything which denies the existence of the Boss threatens the safety, even the very survival, of the believer. The infidel must be brought into the fold or, at least, prevented from acting contrary to the values of the fundamentalist. It is at this time that the fundamentalist is in the greatest danger of gradually becoming part of a religion of violence.