Ms. Armstrong provides her usual sweeping and in-depth analysis of such issues but seems, curiously, to have slid by a key concern. She summarizes the conflict between "fundamental" and "modern" as a battle between what she calls "mythos" (broadly, tradition) and "logos" (modern, rational thinking). But the key issue is that mythos is anchored in ways of life--subjugation of women, slavery etc--that have nothing to do with religion but are related to the (invariably male-dominated) traditions of the time. Yes, perhaps the modernist moves away from religion are a fright to those who are passionate about their faith, but fundamentalism has battle on its hands entirely of its own making because it has failed to adjust its "religion" to be compatible with modern society.