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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
But it doesn't get all of the religions that I have defined. It limits it to a group of people not to a set of characteristics. May I emplore you to try a different term? A term that is not already well-defined?
I still like FUBAR Fundamentalism. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]
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The set of characteristics are in METHOD. It's a very adequate descriptive term of a person of faiths METHOD. It's a clarifier within a faith. Liberal and Fundamentalist Muslims have more in common with each other than they do with Liberal or fundamentalist Christians. The behavioral outcomes are very different.
The American media would love it all to fit into this neat little box we can all deride and hate, but it's not like that.
It's like conservatism. Conservativism is right wing, but is still relevent to the existing political ideal of the conservative persons society. A conservative Russian during the last years of communism, would have been communist, A left wing radical would have been a capitalist democrat.
It does require a little bit of understanding, possible research and knowledge, but then that's a good thing right?
The fact is, a fundamentalist Christian, would have followed Jesus example, and prevented the crowd from executing the girl being hanged/stoned for adultery.
GRACE is fundamental to Christianity's salvation theology, but not to Islam.