I promise you Stoffi, the appearance of "The rise of Christian Fundalmentalism" is all Media hype! There is the element and even domestic terrorist groups that claim Christianity as the excuse for their violence, for instance "The Army of God" and "Westboro Baptist Church. I couldn't agree more that it is a problem, but it is a vast vast minority. It's a few hundred nutjobs getting way more attention then they deserve.I wouldn't even proclaim it to be "on the rise".
As for as extreme Islam, it is also a problem and i do see the correlation that you are drawing, I just don't think that it is really fair to compare a few hundred nutjobs, who are seen as nutjobs by the rest of us to Islamic fundamentalist. I would agree that they are qualitatively similar, but the difference is the social unacceptability of their actions. They aren't hailed as heros by the general populace!
I don't believe in the Evolution theory myself. It is a dis-proven theory. The selective survival process exists, but it actually limits genetic material and actually INHIBITS genetic change. Darwin's theory was written before the discovery of DNA. Frankly I don't know how the world all got created, and find it a bit pretentious of anyone who does! Even the Christian Bible says the "we see through a glass that is cloudy". If we see these things through a glass that is cloudy, how can we say exactly how and exactly when the world was created? Those to the far right hate that argument. Ive had it many times, I have never been beaten to death like one would be in an Islamic nation.
Creationism was once taught in schools. Going back to that isn't an alarming new trend, it is the way things were for hundreds of years. It was there when I was in Elementary School, I'm only 38. It was taken out of them for a very short period of time.
There has always also been 2 extremes. The Far Left is just as Nutty as the Far Right. Lets not take one side over the other.
To answer your original question "what went wrong" the truth is that the 2 sides have become extremely polarized to the point hat most Americans don't truly relate to either of them. Politics have gotten downright absurd, and most politicians don't even believe in what they are selling us! Both sides take an extreme viewpoint in their rhetoric, and make backroom deals about what is going to happen. Jesse Ventura, who is not a career politician, but made it into politics by popular demand compared it to professional wrestling.
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