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The heart of a Fundamentalist religion is a person commitment to a certain sacred text and trying to interpret it personally.  In this, some key elements will get raised and seeing critical to everything, in order to be manageable.  Anyone who doesn't fit into this will often made out to be an enemy.  In addition, because sacred texts can be challenging for people, they can become prone to certain teachers who will spin things a certain way.  And, if you thrown in subjective understanding of stuff, with one's own hatred and so on, and using the texts to justify things, about anything can be spun to do anything outrageous, like violence.  In this mindset, other elements will get eliminated that would lend balance.  End result is individuals who go together and end up doing harm and violence.