Fundamentalisme Agama Sebagai Tantangan Bagi Negara

The 16 Century Protestant Reformation, triggered by Martin Luther and fellow reformers, eventually resulted in violent conflicts between various Church movements and their individual political supporters. These conflicts brought about a new awareness in the European peoples of the time, that the moralization of politics based on the truth of one religious group/Church always represents a clear threat to the life of a pluralistic society. The function of state politics is to guarantee life in peace together, with freedom and justice, among people who have differing religious convictions and who wish to establish a country together. On the contrary, religious fundamentalism is the greatest enemy of a country in so far as it attacks the principle of state secularism and fights for a return to state politics as an issue of “right or wrong”. To the extent that fundamentalism rejects the autonomy of the political system and enforces without compromise its own absolute truth on others, it is a clear threat to peace