is it true that fundamentalism is an attitude towards other peoples' ideas and opinions that has nothing to do with religion itself?
2006-07-30 10:54:41 · 5 answers · asked by george 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's not so much an attitude toward OTHER people's ideas as it is a sticking-to your own ideas. And, it's not so much a sticking-to your own ideas as it is a sticking-to what is essential. Take anything - religion, philosophy, sports, education - and find the underlying foundation of these things. Find what is the absolute truth about these things. Then stick to that, and not all the other ideas that people have formed around the subject. Then you'll be a fundamentalist.
In Christianity, a fundamentalist is a person who constantly returns to the Bible - God's true and infallible Word - for guidance. He tries to ignore the distractions of human tradition and human ideas about what is right and seeks out what God says is right.
2006-07-30 11:11:22 · answer #1 · answered by AJK 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fundamentalism is an attitude towards other people's ideas and opinions that has everything to do with religion. Like Hitler, bin Laden, the KKK, the abortion clinic bombers, the IRA, all of them are acting on the belief that their religion is the only right one. Thar is what fanaticism is all about.
2006-07-30 18:07:25 · answer #2 · answered by rich k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fundamentalism in my opinion, if you are speaking about religion, the same thing as orthodoxy. It stricktly adheres to the relighious beliefs set forth by whatever the source of your religion is.
Fundamentalism can also certainly exist in your personal beliefs.
However, it is most commonly associated with religious beliefs or a belief system.
2006-07-30 22:10:38 · answer #3 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 In other religions. In Islam, the term "fundamentalism" encompasses various modern Muslim leaders, groups, and movements opposed to secularization in Islam and Islamic countries and seeking to reassert traditional beliefs and practices. After the Shiite revolution (1979) led by Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, the term was applied to a number of ultra-conservative or militant Islamic movements there and in other countries, such as the Taliban of Afghanistan. There are both Shiite and Sunni fundamentalist leaders and groups, such as the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Muslim Brotherhood. The term has also been applied to Hindu nationalist groups in India (see Hinduism; Bharatiya Janata party).
2006-07-30 18:08:12 · answer #4 · answered by jeri c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fundamentalism has surely been wronly interpreted these days. A fundamentalist should be a term for a person who adheres to the fundamentals of his beliefs strongly. Need not just be religious beliefs! A scientist could adhere strongly to his belief in science, a astronomer to his knowledge of astronomy!
Anyone who doesn't leave the fundamentals of his belief is a fundamentalist for me, and what he/she practices is fundamentalism.
2006-07-30 17:59:59 · answer #5 · answered by rickashe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋