>this is what YOU said: > >"Fundamentalism is what happens when you pick one particular >set of beliefs and decide that a) they are the ultimate answer >to life, the universe, and everything and b) anyone who >doesn't share buy into this belief system is the adversary and >must be either converted or destroyed." > >- look closer @ your B section. that is what i was referring >to. you just lumped conversion with destroying people. by that >logic malcolm "converting" black people to islam in the 60's >was wrong (because he converted ALOT of folks i think we will >both agree) or worse yet, equivelant to DESTROYING them!? that >is insane.
Fundamentalism=conversion? In some cases, yes, but I think the point is that fundamentalists believe in absolutes and that is what causes strife and suffering...and intolerance. Heck, even Jehovah's Witnesses attempt to convert people but you don't see them murdering or killing anyone who worships something different. My issue is that some fundamentalists label others as enemies and use that position to justify their acts either in war or terror. That is not tolerance.