"Protestant fundamentalism thrives on the fortress mentality. The little group gets together and builds walls and peers over them at al the “sinners” who are outside the enclave. Catholic fundamentalists practice the same ghetto mentality. “We few, we faithful few!” We are the Remnant of faithful ones who remain." - Fr. Dwight Longenecker,Let’s begin with a definition.This is the definition of “fundamental”:

The facts of Divine Revelation to which the

Church bears witness? Not so much.

I was thinking about mathematics this morning, and found it very, very interesting that mathematicians, physicists and engineers that believe:-in the commutative properties of addition and multiplication-in the associative properties of addition and multiplication-in the distributive properties of addition over multiplication-that the reciprocal of a non-zero number x is 1/x-that the additive inverse of x is (-x)-that the additive identity is 0-that the multiplicative identity is 1…are never called “fundamentalists.”No one ever accuses an engineer of excessive rigidity or of a “fortress mentality” for his unswerving and intransigent belief in the fundamental properties of algebra. No one deems an engineer deeply flawed as a human being if he refuses to entertain the notion that the additive inverse of x might NOT be (-x), much less tolerate a plan for a building put before him in which the plans operate on the premise that the reciprocal of 2 is ¼.The heresy of Modernism has been well defined as “to not believe what one believes”. Only in the irrational, self-contradicting philosophical matrix of Modernism does believing in the fundamentals of one’s professed belief system make a person either crazy or evil.Sadly, in today’s Church, thoroughly infiltrated by Modernism, it is simply incomprehensible that a Catholic not only should, but MUST believe the fundamentals of the Catholic faith with more certainty and less doubt than the fundamental properties of algebra. The supreme truth in the universe is Catholicism, not mathematics. After all, five loaves and two fishes went into baskets, and hundreds, if not thousands of loaves and fishes came out. The multiplicative identity did not hold.Anyone who actually believes anything is, with regards to that belief, a fundamentalist. To be a fundamentalist is nothing less than to believe what you believe. It is a truly, truly deranged and depraved mind that can hold as not just tenable, but admirable and virtuous that he does not actually believe what he believes.What the hurling the word "fundamentalist" as a pejorative at Catholics but not mathematicians, physicists and engineers proves is that the hurler fully and completely assents to and believes in mathematics and does not harbor any doubt.Therefore, I am a Catholic fundamentlist, and I cannot be gaslighted by anyone for being so.