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

[John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:

> >"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>

Very true.  Like I always say, Militant Atheism,
Secular Humanism, and Environmentalism are as much
religions as Buddhism, Shinto, or Judaism.  They
require you to accept on faith a cosmological view
that is inherently unprovable.

John

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