There is no worldview or religion without its fundamentalists.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/em><\/p>\n\n- There is no fundamentalism without hypocrisy.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/em><\/p>\n\n- And every creed and conviction has its fundamentalists and hypocrites.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Fundamentalism is not the product of a single religion or worldview.\u00a0 It is one of two poles.\u00a0 A place where opinion and passion constellates around a distilled and oversimplified version of a creed \u2014 just as the same passion and opinion constellates around its rejection at the other end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n
\n- Muslims at Sallyland \u2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Christopher Hitchens, fundamentalist to atheists \u2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Jerry Falwell, fundamentalist Christian \u2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Name a religion, life philosophy, or political point of view and you will find fundamentalists left and right.\u00a0 People are drawn to it or repelled by it.\u00a0 For some it constitutes the purest expression of a tradition, for others it represents the best reason for rejecting it.<\/p>\n
The troubling truth is that those who connect with a faith in ways that are passionate, without being fundamentalist, are few and far between.\u00a0\u00a0 Passion too often resides at the extremes. \u00a0Far too many people who lived in the middle are simply disaffected.\u00a0 But it is that passionate balance that is needed.<\/p>\n
Find it.<\/p>\n
Nurture it.<\/p>\n
Live from it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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