Word: fanaticism
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...that every word of their holy text is true. The term Orthodox refers to a religious sect of Judaism that closely follows the laws of the Torah, Both words have a very similar literal meaning. However, they have very different connotations. "Orthodox" connotes a legitimate religious sect; "fundamentalist" connotes fanaticism and terrorism. Thus, the devout Jew is seen as deeply religious, whereas the devout Moslem is seen as a fanatic and terrorist. Such semantic differences become more apparent when we try to imagine a world where there are "fundamentalist Jews" and "Orthodox Moslems...
"The costs eat you up," says John Bogle, a low-fee fanatic and chairman of mutual-fund company Vanguard Group, which champions "index funds" as the surest road to long-term investment success. Over long periods, Bogle says, it's inevitable that managed funds will trail the benchmarks by roughly...
My personal feelings about a cappella music are difficult to put into words. For some reason, I can't help comparing it to the time two years ago I went to a Celtics-Magic playoff game. Trailing for nearly the entire game, the Celtics cut the Orlando lead to one...
Leah Hochbaum giggles a lot for a radical fanatic. But the 26-year-old mother of two from New York City possesses a will of steel and a boundless faith that she is obeying God's commandment. When she heard Manhattan Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach say it was a Jew's...
Being a Salinger fanatic myself, I realize that this new book is most likely another in a long line of pirated Salinger editions; more than a dozen of his stories have only been published in magazines, and people are always trying to make illegal copies of them. In the early...