Quote Originally Posted by IDCrewDawg View Post
Fundamentalists of any religion are usually breaking the rules of their roots.
well, yeah. But I don't see how that's relevant. She argues that all fundamentalists are a new and a separate religion. Christian bible-thumpers in the bible belt and Islamic fundamentalists in the caves of Afghanistan are pretty much the same new religion and have the same values. They just have different symbols. The difference between the Koran and the Bible, in what actually is being said are minute.

Don't forget the audience. It isn't really fair to read the Bible and the Koran today to find the words of the prophets. It's probably better to look at how people of the time actually reacted to them.

Our world is a radically different place then it was 600 AD. A person following the Koran to the letter in 600 AD will read a completely different book than a person following it to the letter today. Our brains and minds are a product of the times we live in. The words have radically different meanings today. Dictionaries get redefined all the time.

Because of evolution all religions have probably broken with their roots. I don't see how that is an intrinsically bad thing.