What is fundamentalism? Its getting back to the fundamentals of ones religion and I don't see anything wrong with that.
I imagine that most folk imagine it to be something put in place by a firebreathing hell-fire preacher who is highly intolerant of any and all sins, much like Savanarola in medieval Florence.
It isn't and is just another knee jerk word loaded with inbuilt preconceptions, there are a lot of those around.
What is fundamentalism? Its getting back to the fundamentals of ones religion
No, I don't think this is a correct understanding of what 'fundamentalism' is in the context of religion.
I can understand one might WANT it to be that, and that the expression does lend itself to be subjectively interpreted to possibly mean that, but that's not how language works.
Expressions take on their own meaning that in many cases is NOT what is implied by the morphemes or components themselves.
A headcase is not a case in which to carry a head. A sophist was a teacher in ancient Greece, but today a sophist is someone who "deliberately argues using fallacious arguments or reasoning, in order to mislead"
There are certain characteristics that are often part of the denotation of "fundamentalism", including a certain level of rigidity, inability to recognize or acknowledge fallibility, often a tendency to literal interpretations of scripture, assertion that the superiority of the belief system justifies coercion, etc.
Whether you use fundamentalism to mean this or something that suits your own choice, from a language and linguistics viewpoint, that's what it means, because that is how it is widely used and understood by the language community as an entirety.
Of this, I remain fully in the conviction that this is so.
Btw, next day I whipped up a batch of kimchi jjiggae using the last of my recent kimchi batch (about 7 weeks I think, it lasted). Kept the Jjiggae running three days, by adding more kimchi, more broth and more tofu to the initial batch. 50% of our mob ate this while the others have been consuming the dwenjjang jjiggae - the fire of the kimchi jjiggae was not for such as they.
But yesterday, I kinda goofed. Leftover tteokbokki for lunch, kimchi jjiggae for dinner. Just a little too much fire in the hold!!! But boy, it was fun (delish).
Language community? Is that the community who preach for the acceptance of ambiguity in all areas of life, the ones that try to confuse us all with their overly educated arguments and spells? Why do we spell, why is it called spelling?
Language is not ambiguous at all, if it was then the Tower of Babel is being restored, by you and your community of confusion.
Woah, woah, nellie. Kinda heavy with the accusations and the aggressive tone there, ain't you?
I'm just saying, no, you are wrong, this is NOT what fundamentalism means to everyone else on the planet, who speaks English.
Why don't you just type fundamentalism or religious fundamentalism into any search engine and reference documents?
Fyi, the language community is the community of human beings who share a language, as in English.
You can pretend or believe that the expression "fundamentalism" means what you want it to mean, but that doesn't make it true. It's much more than "getting back to the fundamentals of one's religion".
Disagree if you want, but I suggest you pull back on attacking others.
What is fundamentalism? Its getting back to the fundamentals of ones religion and I don't see anything wrong with that.
I imagine that most folk imagine it to be something put in place by a firebreathing hell-fire preacher who is highly intolerant of any and all sins, much like Savanarola in medieval Florence.
It isn't and is just another knee jerk word loaded with inbuilt preconceptions, there are a lot of those around.
No, I don't think this is a correct understanding of what 'fundamentalism' is in the context of religion.
I can understand one might WANT it to be that, and that the expression does lend itself to be subjectively interpreted to possibly mean that, but that's not how language works.
Expressions take on their own meaning that in many cases is NOT what is implied by the morphemes or components themselves.
A headcase is not a case in which to carry a head. A sophist was a teacher in ancient Greece, but today a sophist is someone who "deliberately argues using fallacious arguments or reasoning, in order to mislead"
There are certain characteristics that are often part of the denotation of "fundamentalism", including a certain level of rigidity, inability to recognize or acknowledge fallibility, often a tendency to literal interpretations of scripture, assertion that the superiority of the belief system justifies coercion, etc.
Whether you use fundamentalism to mean this or something that suits your own choice, from a language and linguistics viewpoint, that's what it means, because that is how it is widely used and understood by the language community as an entirety.
Just saying.
Of this, I remain fully in the conviction that this is so.
Btw, next day I whipped up a batch of kimchi jjiggae using the last of my recent kimchi batch (about 7 weeks I think, it lasted). Kept the Jjiggae running three days, by adding more kimchi, more broth and more tofu to the initial batch. 50% of our mob ate this while the others have been consuming the dwenjjang jjiggae - the fire of the kimchi jjiggae was not for such as they.
But yesterday, I kinda goofed. Leftover tteokbokki for lunch, kimchi jjiggae for dinner. Just a little too much fire in the hold!!! But boy, it was fun (delish).
Language community? Is that the community who preach for the acceptance of ambiguity in all areas of life, the ones that try to confuse us all with their overly educated arguments and spells? Why do we spell, why is it called spelling?
Language is not ambiguous at all, if it was then the Tower of Babel is being restored, by you and your community of confusion.
Just saying.
Woah, woah, nellie. Kinda heavy with the accusations and the aggressive tone there, ain't you?
I'm just saying, no, you are wrong, this is NOT what fundamentalism means to everyone else on the planet, who speaks English.
Why don't you just type fundamentalism or religious fundamentalism into any search engine and reference documents?
Fyi, the language community is the community of human beings who share a language, as in English.
You can pretend or believe that the expression "fundamentalism" means what you want it to mean, but that doesn't make it true. It's much more than "getting back to the fundamentals of one's religion".
Disagree if you want, but I suggest you pull back on attacking others.