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

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, John Atkinson wrote:

> 
> --- 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.

That's why I'm a Fundamentalist Agnostic. The whole damn thing's
unprovable and based on no data whatsoever! That goes for Athiests and
Diests both, but the God-botherers are noisier...

Off topic, but what the heck...

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> John
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