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He is saying they are fundamentalists with a lower case f. They can still be less fundamentalist than a group literally called Fundamentalists and still be fair
by esrauch 10y ago
He is saying they are fundamentalists with a lower case f. They can still be less fundamentalist than a group literally called Fundamentalists and still be fairly fundamentalist.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I would describe myself as liberal, even by the already relatively liberal standards of coastal California, but I'm not sure incoherence and hypocrisy are things only the Republican party is guilty of. Which is still not true as a generalization by any meaningful definition of "fundamentalist". The Evangelical movement was precisely a reaction against the elements of the Fundamentalist movement that made "fundamentalist" a generic term of zealous, narrow-minded extremists.