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Every religion on the globe has hateful zanies:

The rise in religious hostility can’t be detached from politics, of course. It also can’t be detached from a worldwide upsurge in conservative and fundamentalist movements in religion. As religions based on a text, Islam, Christianity and Judaism are particularly prone to fundamentalism, which is associated or identified with a literal reading of sacred scriptures. But fundamentalist movements are also affecting other religions. In India, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is a Hindu fundamentalist party. There are fundamentalist strains appearing in Buddhism as well.

The rise of global fundamentalism

Richard Evans Lee
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I believe that fundamentalist of all religeous (Christian and non-Christian) traditions share more in common with each other than with the non-fundamentalists of their own particular religion. A statement that would probably make any fundamentalist christian see red.

Posted by: Tom | May 5, 2004 3:43 PM

You mean, say, hate and ignorance. Yeah, I guess it would. True anyway.

Posted by: Richard | May 5, 2004 3:50 PM

How do you feel?

Feel free to share your feelings about Fundamentalists are everywhere. Please stick to the theme of the entry. Disagreement is fine. Homophobia, racism, and kindred expressions of hatred will be deleted. This site is one of my hobbies. I genuinely enjoy hearing from people and hate moderating or killing comments. Forthright disagreement is fine as long as it is civil.
My thanks,
Richard

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