It has occurred to me that fundamentalism, whether Christian, Islamic, Jewish,. or whatever, may have its roots in people's inability or unwillingness to cope with increasing complexity. When the simplistic worldviews encoded long ago are challenged by advances in science or thought, it seems to be the fundamentalist's response is to resist progress and hold fast to positions and superstitions written in times when religion provided the only available answer to great questions of life, the universe, and everything.
The more comfortable an individual is with ambiguity, the less likely he or she is to take a fundamentalist position on anything. Or, for that matter, try to hurt somebody who disagrees.
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