I rather think so. I have known a few, some who were successful plus some abysmal failures. The one common thread they had was an inflexible,narrow and closed mind, as if they were clinging desperately to this self-defeating doctrine lest they should morally and intellectually disintegrate.

Needless to say they were quite incapable of sharing,nay understanding other viewpoints that threatened {was gonna say conflicted} with their own.

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I can see how a person like that would be a fundamentalist by birth, but I don't see how it explains being 'born again' since being born again requires some kind of change of some sort in a person who is inflexible. What exactly is that change that is occurring when a person gets 'born again'. Is the change minor or major? Is it as simple as someone just saying , "I'm not going to drink alcohol anymore." and all the other fundamentalist beliefs were pre-existing or is it something more substantial? Could it be a change from flexible to inflexible?

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