Define fundamentalist ?
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‘fundamentalist’ is a label, nothing more, given to a person who seems to stick to a set of beliefs or practices strictly. And in that broad definition, almost all are fundamentalists of one kind or the other. Even the ‘anti-fundamentalist’, that is some one who does not want to stick to a set of beliefs strictly, is fundamentally believing in the belief that such is good. :)
Now, coming to the negative side of the word, it is a person who is sticking to opinions and beliefs/practices at the cost of ideal and acceptable values and behavior. It could be religious, scientific, etc. There are many flavors of fundamentalism.
Although there are many people who feel ‘fundamental’ about many things, it is really a poor specimen who sees oneself as nothing but that ‘fundamentalist’. Most people are not like that. When some one asks an average person who he/she is, the reply is contextual. ‘I am so and so’s son, I am an officer’, etc. But imagine someone who does not really see such flavors in himself/herself or the others. Such a person is a fundamentalist.
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Ex : The most well‐known fundamentalist denominations in the United States are the Assemblies of God, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Seventh‐Day Adventists. Organizations such as these often become politically active, and support the conservative political “right,” including groups like the Moral Majority.
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