Witches, the Devil and the Existence of Evil (Part Two) Exercise 1 Re-visit: Community to see some of the ideas discussed on the Church in Salem. Re-visit: Fundamentalism , about the ‘fundamentalist’ Christianity in the Salem community, social as well as religious life there. Discuss whether the idea of fundamentalism has any relevance to today’s society in the twenty-first century. Why might a fundamentalist religious way of thinking and ordering society help keep a community together? Discuss the dangers of fundamentalism. Discuss the dangers in combating fundamentalism. You might wish to use events in politics and the news post-11 September 2001, such as, for example, the so-called ‘war on terror’. Exercise 2 Create a scenario where a group of up to ten of you (more might be possible) are to form a community. Describe in detail how you came to be isolated from all other human beings – be imaginative: your community can be earth-bound (at the end of a devastating war, it might be a voluntary choice – there are many television programmes about this) or on another planet. Either: devise a set of rules and responsibilities for a brave new world, including rules about who will be in charge or authority, how decisions will be made. Write up and report. Or: write a diary, drama or short story portraying, accounting for and outlining some of the difficulties of living in your new world where the rules of community have to be started from scratch. In both cases, what then if you discover a larger group of people who suddenly intrude or you discover were there in the first place – who claim that it is their land and their rules should take precedence over yours. (In both scenarios of course you might well bring to your brave new world elements from the old world – the Bible or any other holy scripture might remain a guide, so too might the Universal Declaration. In the early days of settlers arriving in New England, America was known as the New World.) | 
