how similar my own opinions on Fundamentalist Christianity are to the author whose article you linked to. There's a shock of recognition and familiarity with everything he says, I wasn't brought up at home that way, but it was all around me.

My experiences with Christian Fundamentalists come from growing up in rural Florida, where this cult was widespread and entrenched (not so much today). In my family, Southern fundamentalism was considered hypocritical, and rather barbaric. In English, we called them Holy Rollers. In Spanish, aleluieros, (hallelujoids). It was, at best, just another goofy thing our Cracker neighbors did.

I myself had no formal religious upbringing. I was baptized a Roman Catholic, but only because my mother felt if I ever decided to become one I would already have that out of the way. I was circumcised too, for presumably the same reason. It was supposedly for hygienic, not religious purposes. For myself, I felt God would not punish anyone for doing, or not doing, anything in infancy.

God said to Abraham, 'Kill me a son'.
Abe said, 'God, you puttin' me on?'
God said, 'Abe?', Abe said, 'What?'
'Abe, you can do what you want, but,
Next time you see me comin' you better run.'
Abe said, "Where you want this killin' done?'
God said, 'Down on Highway 61'.

-Bob Dylan,

Highway 61 Revisited.

My parents were not atheists, everyone in my family believed there was some sort of supernatural force that created and ran the universe, but there was no specific ritual or ceremonies that were required, no theology that had to be memorized, no holy books to be consulted, and prayer was optional. I was taught the Golden Rule, and that Jesus was a great and good man with a wonderful philosophy, but all my questions (prompted by my childhood friends) were met with a shrug. Nobody really knew for sure if there was a God, and if there was, nobody really knew what he wanted from us. I was taught to treat others with charity and fairness, and with love, just like Jesus taught, but that was it.

By the time I was 12, I realized that there was probably no God at all, but even if there was, I had no way of proving or disproving it one way or the other. Not only was there probably no god, even if there was, there was no way to know what he expected from us. And once you accept that, you can clearly see how cruel and capricious, how utterly irrational, how vicious the whole religious program actually is.

It simply doesn't make any sense, and furthermore, if followed strictly and conscientiously, it leads
inevitably to the same horrors pointed out in your linked article.

Any scheme or program for organizing a human community, that is, any political philosophy or ideology, based on religion is not to be trusted. No good or decency can come from that view of the world, or from any government that embraces it.