The value of both what you parephrased and what you quoted from the essay, is that it forces us to look at our own misconceptions (“our” here is intended to mean most of us in general) about who is a liberal and who is a fundamentalist. Labels too often tossed around too carelessly.

In this light, most people who call themselves liberals are in fact no different from those they identify as fundamentalists. Proving yet again, that fundamentalism and orthodoxy don’t necessarily have to be linked to any established religion. In fact, at their inception, at their origins, religions had more to do with this definition of liberalism than anything else.

Thanks for providing this.