A Christian content-creator who calls himself "The Tentative Apologist" discusses atheist fundamentalism, which often mirrors religious ditto. This is definitely a thing. I´m old enough to remember when Bart Ehrman was treated as a treacherous apostate by his fellow ateistas for daring to suggest that Jesus actually was a real historical person. They went full "body snatcher" on the man. As in "Reeeeee"!!! The guy who simply switches to the opposite worldview while remaining just as dogmatic is also a thing. A classical example from Cold War political culture is the Communist turned anti-Communist who becomes a kind of "conservative Pravda".
However, I think Mr Tentative is wrong on one score. He says that fundamentalists deny being fundamentalists. This may be the case in a community ostensibly based on skepticism and critical thinking, but I know from my own experience that many fanatics are quite proud of their zealotry, ideological purity and unwavering conviction. Yes, that includes advocates of certain atheistic worldviews. Trotskyism and Marxism-Leninism are two examples (this sentence is an "acid test", btw. The guy in the commentary section below who says "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ONLY TROTSKYISTS ARE REAL MARXIST-LENINISTS" is excatly the kind of dude bro I´m refering to here).
In a sense, it´s actually stranger to be a religious fundamentalist than a secular one, since the former is zelous about things he can´t even perceive! And yet, here we are...
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