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Originally Posted by NYCshaver

How can an agnostic or atheist be a fundamentalist?

With conviction!

WIKI has a better answer.

Originally Posted by Utopian

With conviction!

WIKI has a better answer.

Still doesn't make any sense.

Fundamentalism is a strict adherence to the fundamental principles of any set of beliefs.

Neither agnosticism or atheism have a set of beliefs.

Originally Posted by NYCshaver

Still doesn't make any sense.

Fundamentalism is a strict adherence to the fundamental principles of any set of beliefs.

Neither agnosticism or atheism have a set of beliefs.

Well, it doesn't work for agnostics, but atheists firmly and strictly adhere to the belief that your beliefs are false.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Well, it doesn't work for agnostics, but atheists firmly and strictly adhere to the belief that your beliefs are false.

+1

I fall more in the agnostic category, but where I work, I have alot of Atheist collegues. I find it astonighing how violently some of them defend their point of views and openly say people who beleive in god are idiots.

To me, calling someone who beleives in something an idiot, falls in the fundamentalist category.

I believe that almost everyone is an idiot. It saves time.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I believe that almost everyone is an idiot. It saves time.

FUNDAMENTALIST !!!!

Originally Posted by Glenn24

FUNDAMENTALIST !!!!

When I wrote the above, I first declared myself a fundamentalist, but deleted it because I wanted to see if anyone else would point it out. You're the winner!

Originally Posted by Utopian

Well, it doesn't work for agnostics, but atheists firmly and strictly adhere to the belief that your beliefs are false.

-1

I am an atheist. I firmly and strictly adhere to the belief that your beliefs are false IF they cannot or will not be shown.

Big difference in that 'if'. Fundamentalists will change their minds under no circumstances and that is what defines it. Not what one believes or how passionately, but whether there is room for change, room for reason.

Originally Posted by xman

I firmly and strictly adhere to the belief that your beliefs are false IF they cannot or will not be shown.

I guess I assumed that to be an agnostic.
BTW, when I wrote "your beliefs," I was directing it at a Christian.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I guess I assumed that to be an agnostic.
BTW, when I wrote "your beliefs," I was directing it at a Christian.

You can be agnostic and atheist.