Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: alt.atheism,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics,nz.politics,talk.atheism Subject: Re: true fundamentalism Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:39:50 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1057dv5$ir27$2@dont-email.me> References: <0001HW.2E27609E010B551970000EF3538F@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:39:51 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5b80d96c3f7f25320e45053a41281429"; logging-data="617543"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18glq7vyTPTZl8EWbjU8d0L" User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VAO9X6yBYp5qAdJviI4YTg0n8hg= Xref: csiph.com alt.atheism:3455445 talk.politics.misc:1192208 nz.politics:32959 talk.atheism:103150 On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:52:54 -0230, David Dalton wrote: > The message I consider most significant is > > "The fundamental is to love; however this can not be always achieved and > so one must at least strive to love. Messages that conflict with that > sentence must be discarded or edited to no longer conflict.” > > This I think describes true fundamentalism, whereas many so-called > fundamentalists follow minor messages that conflict with their core > messages. My proposal for “The Humanist Commandments”: . > Also note that I have vowed to not start a new religion. Presumably that doesn’t rule out dusting off and revamping an old, disused one. ;)