Quote Originally Posted by bmolsson
From Wikipedia;
"Fundamentalist" describes a movement to return to what is considered the defining or founding principles of the religion. It has especially come to refer to any religious enclave that intentionally resists identification with the larger religious group in which it originally arose, on the basis that fundamental principles upon which the larger religious group is supposedly founded have become corrupt or displaced by alternative principles hostile to its identity.

You refuse to see anything else than the faith as the base in a religion. Your view is therefore fundamentalistic IMHO.
Note the definition of Fundamentalism: a movement.

Fundamentalism is a sectarian position. It does not refer to religion in general or a religion in general.

I don't see belief as the base of a religion. I do see belief as central to the devotee's joining or aligning themselves with a religion.



Yes, I can. Conversion is made when you need or wish to enter the movement you convert in to. Same thing as getting a citizenship in another country. The people that fail to see the religion they participate in as anything else than a faith are at high risk to become extremists and terrorists. We have seen example of this more than once.
"Need to" and "wish" are subject specific and connote desire. In a religious milieu these feelings suggest a will to join which it is not unreasonable to associate with belief. You made my point.