What is difference between a fundamentalist and an absolutist?
Sometimes, the word, absolutism, is used as if it were the opposite of relativism or post-modernism. It is not. Absolutism has two meanings. Absolutism: adherence to a set of rules, laws, ethical standards, moral precepts, etc. Absolutism: belief in a strong central government with absolute power. Yikes! Absolutism does not work very well as an antonym for relativism or post-modernism. The word, fundamentalism, may be closer to an antonym for post-modernism and relativism. Two separate groups who created two separate fundamentalisms in the early 1900s originally created the word. Each of them had its own set of claimed “fundamental truths.” As time went by, journalists, for whatever reason, twisted these words to describe both terrorists and any Christian who believed the Bible was the Word of God, neither of which was an legitimate use of the word, fundamentalist. Perhaps, in the minds of Secularist journalists, Christians are evil and terrorists are evil. Who knows? Now, the word, fu
