Sentences with phrase «what religious fundamentalism»

You don't even know what religious fundamentalism is.

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I refer to new ideas in physics, chemistry, physiology, philosophy, theology, all of which are pertinent to the religious significance of Darwinism.3 What many seem not to understand is that the crux of the religious issue is not between fundamentalism — which I recall no one whose intelligence I greatly admire defending — and evolution, but between two kinds of theism and two kinds of evolutionism.

Throughout the eighteenth century in Europe, the decline of «religious certitude» ¯ what is nowadays called evangelicalism or, less knowledgeably, fundamentalism ¯ was widely taken for granted.

«Reassertion» is a decisive term here, for fundamentalism seems to rise when the authoritative bearers of a religious tradition are perceived as falling into intellectual drift — when those responsible for cultivating and propagating the vision do not, can not or will not defend the fundamentals that give the vision articulate form, or when they begin to advocate changing the definition of what is fundamental.

The book is not specifically religious, so I was a bit surprised to bump into what I thought was a really interesting assessment of religious fundamentalism on page 63, where Godin writes:

An example for comparison might be what happened to the Ottoman empire which after embracing science and rising to world dominance slipped into a decline fueled by religious fundamentalism where the ideas of popular religious individuals reigned supreme over the importance of scientific fact.

I liked pot back then, was open to religious fundamentalism, gained twenty pounds in four months because I was always ravenous, though I never knew for what.

I may not like the religious fundamentalism inherent in the niqab and the burqa but politically I'm reluctant to tell people what to do and legally I can't see this law going anywhere.