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Originally Posted by Chris T
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Yes, we are discussing religious extremism, but the fact that that's what we're discussing doesn't give you the right to assert that extremism can only come from religious fundamentalism. Unless what you actually meant was, religious extremism can only come from religious fundamentalism, and I'd have said that was a truism - subject, of course, to the understanding I believe we've reached on the meaning and application of the word 'fundamentalism'.
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I didn't assert that religion is the only way to extremism. I have been careful to speak of
religious fundamentalism leading to
religious extremism....If I have given any other impression then I apologise
I am simply trying to make the point that the further one immerses him/herself into religion, the closer one follows the scriptures, the more likely one is to become extreme in ones beliefs and actions.....