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Certain Christian groups love to argue that there's been a war declared against them. As soon as they start whining, people trip over themselves to declare that no, there's no war on Christians. We're a religiously tolerant people.

But, I want to go on record saying that I have declared war on fuckwads such as Vision America. Toleration only goes so far. But when you start hurting my friends--gays, lesbians, straight women, children, immigrants, the poor, essentially anyone who doesn't cleave to your narrow-minded, bigoted vision of what life is supposed to be--you can go to fucking hell. So bring it on, brotherfuckers.

My beef is with fundamentalists of all stripes. I don't care if you're Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or Martian, if one of the central tenets of your religion is that you're right and everyone else is wrong, and therefore your enemy, well, I am not willing to engage in anything approaching respectful dialogue with you. Believe me, I've tried, and it's like trying to teach a pig to sing. And we all know what the end result of that is.

I'm operating on an understanding of fundamentalism that is drawn from my experiences as an historian, a journalist, and as a citizen of the world. For manageable purposes, I'm providing a definition of religious fundamentalism that looks something like this:

A Fundamental Definition of Fundamentalism:

The following observable characteristics of religious fundamentalism  are taken from Martin Marty and R. Scott Appleby, “An Interim Report on a Hypothetical Family,

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