Darren New wrote:
> David H. Burns wrote:
>> It ought to mean something like "believing or adhering to the 
>> fundamentals of",
>> whereas, it has come to mean something like "one ready to exercise 
>> violence
>> against those who disagree with his beliefs"
> 
> And yet, those two things are the same for many fundamentalists.
> 
I think you have simply accepted the media usage of the term. :)There's 
no real connection
between believing in the fundamentals of something and being violent 
about it. Most, probably
all, scientist believe in the fundamentals of physics, but few of them 
are violent about it. I suppose
I have accepted the media usage too, although I believe the fundamentals 
of Christianity, I
would now hesitate to call myself a fundamentalist.  "Fundamentalist" 
and "fundamentalist" have been
destroyed as useful descriptive terms and become largely pejorative. :)

David

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