fundamentalism

[Brad DeLong]

>At 10:26 PM 04/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>In my experience Westerners are transfixed by what they take to be a
>>fervent 'fundamentalism' (of any variety from Islamic to Christian)
>>because their own belief system is so shallow that any halfway meant
>>expression of intent seems awesome. Put another way, all the talk about
>>the power of fundamentalism is just ill-disguised jealousy that other
>>people are not racked by the same nagging self-doubts that preoccupy
>>western culture (though in all likelihood, they are).
>>- --
>>James Heartfield
>
>Yup. There's a lot of "nostalgia" and a yearning for lack of ambivalence.
>

Not us militant agnostics! We are absolutely, totally, completely 
certain that anyone who claims certain knowledge must die!