“Calling Jindal a fundamentalist is about as wrong-headed as one would expect for a country-club Republican to get.”
Jindal is Catholic. A fundamentalist Catholic? He did say he witnessed an exorcism and though it was real, but that is within standard Catholic doctrine (someone correct me if I’m wrong.) If actually believing your religion is true makes you a fundamentalist, then I guess Jindal is one.
I guess in their mind it is OK to be religious, just as long as you don’t get too carried away with actually believing the stuff you hear in church.
What he means is that he fears that Jindal is seriously Christian, and not just a country-club Episcopalian who enjoys hymns.
Terms like fundamentalist, with concrete meaning one could look up in a dictionary, are really just thrown around as scare words.
It was once said that if the most religious nation on Earth is India and the least is Sweden, Americans are a nation of Indians governed by Swedes.
And the country club Episcopalian types are scred to death that it might change.