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Thursday, November 23, 2006

I never cease to be amazed at what I read:


You have also misunderstood the term "fundamentalist". What is fundamentalism? It is a desire to go "back to the basics", believing a certain field has been too corrupted...

Fundamentalism is the ideology of a set of absolute principles: the idea that all humanity has a fundamental set of rights - life, freedom of expression, and so forth - that shall not be controvened - is a concept that is fundamentalist in nature, e.g. belief in a paradigm of ideals. This is opposed to utilitarianism, where few things are absolute and principles can be conveniently (and perhaps inconsistently) changed for "the greatest good". For me, many churches have slipped from a set of uncontrovenable principles into feel-good, self-esteem institutions that advocate "do whatever you want according to your own personal interpretation". Christian fundamentalism thus endeavours to align believers off this hypocritical course.

It does not necessarily entail the rejection of biology.
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