Bush presidency have coincided not coincidentally with with a rise of fundamentalisms in the world Muslim fundamentalism Christian fundamentalism and then kind of secular atheist fundamentalism people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens writingthese books saying you know you people are all crazy Let's uh you know we've got to focus on reason and Science and
And the challenges are not so much people on the outside, but also people on the inside. Because fundamentalism is people who find comfort in the past. And people are like, hey, this is what a guy with a beard and turban is supposed to do.
I'll leave such soporific matters to you in your dusty grave, but as to your wish, I not only accept it as my command, My understanding is that fundamentalism is a modern historical event.
Where does conflict come in? There's a lot a fundamentalism .
completely new so um so I think that in a way we've been longing for a way out of this sort of clash of fundamentalisms in towards uh sort of a return to the moderate enlightenment I'll leave it there and be happy to take questions yes sir thank you very much
But I thought it was odd for another reason, because Sufis are meant to be very sort of open-minded, mystical Muslims, and Boshko's answer had sort of an edge of fundamentalism in it, taking that word in the Quran very literally, that word "struggle," and misinterpreting it in just the right way.
There's five domains, six facets, but the openness to experience is the one that was really changed. I think when you talk about rigidity and fundamentalism , people are not open to new experiences, they're not open to new ideas. And that's what she found was changed.
These are the smallest estimates. So you had your full share of religious fundamentalism also back in the 19th century. Nobody almost today remembers these people or these movements.
um have been looking forward so much to this election is that the years of the Bush presidency have coincided not coincidentally with with a rise of fundamentalisms in the world Muslim fundamentalism Christian fundamentalism and then kind of secular atheist fundamentalism people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens writing
yes Stephen culture and Islam and Christianity and secularism these three fundamentalisms if you want to say it
yes Stephen yeah so you said there was a cycle of fundamentalisms and tolerance and you
I don't think anybody would have predicted that at the outset, but that's what happened. And it's because the internet coincided with two great waves of fundamentalism in the Sunni and Shia worlds, circa 1979, just as the internet is getting going.
And then the final takeaway I'll mention today is the absurdity and delusion of fundamentalist thinking, because part of the motivation for this book was to expose the absurdity of fundamentalism by becoming the ultimate fundamentalist and taking the Bible at its word.
Nations to mediate conflicts between countries, but really what we have is a lot of religious-based conflicts. And what he basically said is that mysticism is the antidote to fundamentalism , and if we have this global spirituality, people will appreciate other perspectives rather than be scared of them.
I'll leave such soporific matters to you in your dusty grave, but as to your wish, I not only accept it as my command, the fatwa against you, and the victim of fundamentalism in a serious way.
civil rights and things like that um the story of Descartes bones over the past four centuries of modernity shows repeatedly this this same cycle where fun these fundamentalisms come into play Come uh and come into conflict with one another but there's one one other thing and in the book I'm I rely on the work
And it all depends on how we react to that information. "The Year of Living Biblically," one of the points of it you said was to demonstrate some of the dangers of fundamentalism .
At the heart of my faith is environmentalism. As a Christian, I can say that today's market fundamentalism is worse than any fundamentalism found in religion. But radical change is coming.
Franklin, and Abigail and John Adams. And I mentioned that even the liberal Christians of the 19th century in America like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Susan B. Anthony met with strong public outcries of disgust for their religious belief with the rise fundamentalism in the 20th century, liberals were often condemned as enemies of the cross of Christ, and accused of apostasy. But then I go on to say that ironically, the
yes Stephen know it goes back and forth uh is there a good way out of the Rising fundamentalisms
yes Stephen do I have to repeat your question or are you on my is there a good way out of the fundamentalisms well I think you know if
That's what took me back to Afghanistan. And I'm still committed, if there would be an opportunity to return to Afghanistan, to use the power of music to stand against radicalism and fundamentalism in Afghanistan. That's incredibly powerful. So thank you for that.
I'm a physicist, not a cartoonist. That is the most dangerous transition of all, because we have all this sectarianism, fundamentalism , racism, whatever coming from the swamp.
I wrote the book because, since 9/11 up until now, almost every Muslim conversation or conversation with Islam and Muslims in the public domain seems to be dominated by extremism, terrorism, fanaticism, fundamentalism , radicalism, and it's negative. And while I understand, and I think most of us understand, why that happens, the lived reality of Muslims is something entirely different.
I'll leave such soporific matters to you in your dusty grave, but as to your wish, I not only accept it as my command, So what I thought would be interesting to hear from you is what do you see as the history, development, of this sort of fundamentalism , and what do we do to--
It's sort of the fake it till you become it idea. And then the final takeaway I'll mention today is the absurdity and delusion of fundamentalist thinking, because part of the motivation for this book was to expose the absurdity of fundamentalism by becoming the ultimate fundamentalist