Grateful

I agree entirely with both Mikk's and Pelican's posts.

For AGIR:

If you want to see a fundamentalist, read Mikk's list and go look in a mirror. That is how the majority of people see you.

HI Fraccy.. good to see ur active again :)

I'm not sensing the warmest of vibes from you though.. but.. we can work on that eh.

MIKK
A fundamentalist is

Re Mikks list.

I have to disagree.

Fundamentals of Islam

* Faith or belief in the Oneness of God and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad;
* Establishment of the daily prayers;
* Concern for and almsgiving to the needy;
* Self-purification through fasting; and
* The pilgrimage to Makkah for those who are able.

Fundamentals of Christianity.

Nicene Creed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_versions_of_the_Nicene_Creed_in_current_use

Fundamentals of Hinduism
http://submit.thinkquest.org/TQ0013320/hfund.html

Fundamentals of Buddhism
http://www.buddhanet.net/fundbud4.htm

Fundamentals of Bahai
http://www.googobits.com/articles/2605-fundamentals-of-the-bahai-faith.html

I don't find in any of those lists any of the things Mikk said.
Some are implied.. when exclusive truth is claimed. At that point one must look deeper at what the faith actually teaches about how to relate to non 'us'.

The term fundamentalist when it comes to Christianity arose as a identifier term in the 17th Century. They believed they had the true understanding and interpretation of Scripture. Fundamentalist Muslim is a more recent term as anyone who worships Allah is a brother Muslim but is a term used by the West to identify a group who literally interpret and practise the Kor'an. It generally refers to one who adheres to the fundamental principles that define the religion, code or rules of a game etc.

Fundamentalism?

For most Australians that would mean resisting any move by another religion to move us back to where we were with the Catholics and other controlling religious nutters in the Fifties.

Australia is a secular State. That was hard won and we are not completely there yet. Nobody just nobody wants more regulations and more concessions to give religions more voice and more power in Australia.

If citizens don't realise that our secularism is under attack they really haven't been watching.

For once Runner actually made a sound definition of a fundamentalist in each religion.
Though a fundamentalist atheist would be hard to define, as the only fundamental would be you don't believe a god exists.

Although I think a fundamentalist is probably someone who adheres rather closely to their (extensive) way of doing things, especially to the point they throw on all the shackles required- or, an easy definition, on a spectrum of where secular conduct separates from the conduct of your religion, where you would sit closer to (although keep in mind that it also requires the religion itself be far-removed from Secularism, and demand a lot of inhibiting conduct).

Mikk's definition actually describes evolutionist to the tee not to mention global warming alarmist. Well done Mikk.