Re: Veering [OT] Fundamentalists in general, was RE: [FH] ecofundamentalists was RE: [FH] World maps

John Atkinson wrote:

>Fundamentalist is among the top ten most abused words
>in the English language at this time.
>
>"A usually religious movement or point of view
>characterized by a return to fundamental principles,
>by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by
>intolerance of other views and opposition to
>secularism."

I'm glad to say that I'm not abusing the word, then - thanks to the 
"usually" and "often", this definition fits the eco-fundamentalists I'm 
talking about perfectly :-) They certainly treat ecology like a
religion... 
including believing in Holy Scripts which are heavily biased towards
their 
particular point of view, and all that <g>

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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