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Understanding and Containing Fundamentalism

Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 11:03:51 AM PDT

As a reformed god-hating liberal who once found the religious convictions of the Southern Baptist convention too moderate, I have raged with anger over the last 36 hours. I've read diary after diary, comment after comment, of people expressing similar anger, but I've noticed a trend that it is rage without focus, or focused on entirely the wrong subset of people.

After the break I'll try to explain, using my own time as a fundamentalist, what mistakes we are making in trying to understand them, and lay out a plan on how we can divide them and contain their extremism-and keep them from ruining our great country.


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