Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Then can I call Hasidic Jews muslims too? Because Branch Davidians are not a fundamentalist subset of Christianity. They're not Christian at all. Christianity is about the divinity of Christ. They don't believe that. Christianity teaches that Christ is only divine being ever to live among men. Branch Davidians teach whoever they've got up at the pulpit at the moment is divine. People who worship snakes can call themselves Christians, and you can claim they represent our fundamentalist side, but you and they would be grossly wrong. Thus far, I haven't heard too many immams from the mainstream side issuing fatwahs against the hate preachers. I do see mainstream Christian churches defrocking and even excommunicating their wackos from time to time.

I would have expected a better argument than the old 'no difference between Christian & Islamic fundamentalists', and then going and getting a bunch of people that aren't even Christian to be our poster children.
I said:
Religious fundamentalism of all religions is a bad thing...
Now there is differing degrees on how bad they are. But when you compare fundamentalists vs the mainstream of the religion. The fundamentalists normally come across as more extreme, cult like and less peaceful then their mainstream brethren. Sometimes the fundamentalists are so far out that we term them extremists and at that point the mainstream worshippers deny any relationship to the sect.

In a few rare instances fundamentalists are more peaceful and happy to have other people lead their own lives...