The desire to see the world from above and contain it in outline is attracted to maps.

The desire to orient oneself within the world and engage it in detail is attracted to compasses.

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When a compass is interpreted as a comprehensive map, religion is inverted into fundamentalism.

Fundamentalism is a form of ideology that converts religious symbols of orientation into objective images.

Fundamentalism is the idolatrous form of the religions it claims to epitomize.

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Fundamentalism is so literal that it does not realize that an image does not have to be a literal image. It is completely possible to make an intellectual image of “God” in one’s mind.