Many words are thrown about without an understanding of their meaning and purpose. It is language that binds us, but it is language that divides us. The words that are in my head and which get expressed upon these pages may very well have different definitions in the eyes of the reader. This is why such great care is taken to each word used. This is why such detail is attended to with footnotes and references.

The idea of “extremist” is that of one who takes something to an extreme. The idea of a “fundamentalist” is that of one who holds fast to the fundamentals of a particular thought process. In our modern world we rely upon cultural relativism to inform our understanding of these terms. What may be fundamental to me might be extreme to you. This difference is nothing more than a point of view, an opinion. This form of plurality is chaos. It is also a lie.

Those who are fundamentally founded within a philosophy have no such delusions. To each fundamentalist they know that they are being fundamental. They also understand that everyone else is lost. The fundamentalist is founded and fixed. The relativist has their feet “firmly planted in mid-air.” This is specifically why a small few dedicated individuals can influence a massive body of people. Those who are lost are like balloons filled with helium. All you have to do is tie a small string onto them, and you can pull them any way you want.

Until those people become grounded, empty themselves of all the gasses and release themselves from the string, they will blindly go where the bunch goes. They do, however, have a tendency to rationalize why they allow themselves to be pulled along. In Germany, in the 1930’s the people had no choice. They were following orders. The one’s giving the orders were an ideologically committed few. They called themselves Nationalist Socialists.

The National Socialist movement was one of socialism, internal to a single national identity. The National Socialist denies the concepts of Communism, believing that true Communism cannot be sustained on a broad basis. They were right. Communism fails in systems that have too broad a base. Rather, the National Socialist believes that people groups have to have a common identity, a singular purpose that binds them into a homogeneous unit.

However, what the National Socialist also understood is that there will always be those who float around, those who just can’t get into the flow. Systems of management and mollification were invented to keep these people pacified. The key to this mollification is distraction. When people are so concentrated on staying alive, they have little time for anything else. National Socialism maintains a constant state of oppression, in the name of homogenization. Communism maintains a constant state of depression, in the name of equalization. What most fail to see is that each of these systems has a small group of dedicated, fundamental members who inevitably find themselves at the top.

This paradigm carries itself out in all humanist-secular philosophies, but it also carries itself out in all cults and false religions. Scientology controls through ignorance, while proclaiming it’s superior scientific understanding. Wicca controls through superstition, while proclaiming it’s dominance over nature. Islam controls through fear while proclaiming it’s peaceful nature.

In the case of Islam the fundamentalists maintain control over the masses through fear so much that those who call themselves “moderates” in the Islamic faith will dare not challenge the fundamentalists. Why? Because they understand something about the faith that the balloons of the world simply cannot grasp. It is the extremist Muslim that believes Islam is a religion of peace. It is the fundamentalist Muslim who knows that Islam is spread by the sword.

This is why those who attempt to fight against these ideologies fail. They aren’t fundamental in anything. They look at these philosophies from a relativistic mind-set, not realizing that they are being drug around by a thin, bright string. It is only when you become grounded that you can understand what is going on around you.

But, the real question is, on what do you become grounded? If there is nothing else true in this world, there is one thing that remains absolute; Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Son of God, is the foundation, the fundamental influence, that created the possibility of the existence of this nation. The idea of freedom, individual liberty, justice, and equality comes solely from Him. The deeper you dig into understanding the peculiar conditions that culminated in the establishment of a free society, the more you understand this fundamental truth. The deeper you dig into understanding the fundamentals of Christianity, the more you understand that it stands alone, opposed and opposite of all other ideologies. This is why those who founded this nation did so based upon it’s precepts.

“The time at which this attempt on our liberties was made, when we were ripened into maturity, had acquired a knowledge of war, and were free from intestine enemies, – the gradual advances of our oppressors, enabling us to prepare for our defence, – the unusual fertility of our lands, – the success which at first attends our feeble arms, producing unanimity among our friends and reducing our internal foes to acquiescence, – these are strong and palpable assurances that Providence is yet gracious unto our Zion, that it will turn away our captivity.

“These are instances of, I would say, an almost astonishing providence in our favor; so that we may truly say that it is not our arm that has saved us. The hand of Heaven appears to have led us on to be, perhaps, humble instruments and means in the great providential dispensation which is completing. Brethren and fellow-countrymen, if it was ever granted to mortals to trace the designs of Providence and interpret its manifestations in favor of its cause, we may, with humility of soul, cry out, ‘Not unto us, not unto us, but to thy name be the praise.’

“My countrymen, from the day on which an accommodation takes place between England and America on any other terms than as independent states, I shall date the ruin of this country. We are now, to the astonishment of the world, three millions of souls united in one common cause. This day we are called on to give a glorious example of what the wisest and best of men were rejoiced to view only in speculation. This day presents the world with the most august spectacle that its annals ever unfolded, – millions of freemen voluntarily and deliberately forming themselves into a society for the common defence and common happiness. Immortal spirits of Hampden, Locke, and Sidney! will it not add to your benevolent joys to behold your posterity rising to the dignity of men, and evincing to the world the reality and expediency of your systems, and in the actual enjoyment of that equal liberty which you were happy, when on earth, in delineating and recommending to mankind!” – Samuel Adams