I didn't mean to come off aiming that section in my post at you. I was responding generally to that section of academe, politics, media, professionals and the masses who tend to throw the baby out with the bathwater on the subject. I used your term 'fundamentalist belief' because I like it better than the widely-used 'fundamentalism'.

My alma mater is overrun with the strangest creatures, church-going (Catholic and Methodist and Presbyterian) secularlists. They are very active in their respective churches, but they are quite anti-religion when they set foot on the school grounds and in the classes. I haven't been able to nail them down in discussion as to how this happens and what they really believe. Not yet.