The Religious Right and New Age Left both promoted time-distorting meta-myths—imaginary past golden ages and implausible future utopias—to hide their defects.
Fundamentalism is not traditional; it is a modern, countercultural movement, opposed to tradition and to post-modernity.
This references David Chapman's essay on another site, "Ritual Vs Mentalism":
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