The author discusses fundamentalism and the human quest for meaning in describing a friend's surprising participation in the antiabortion movement Concepts of existential pattern theory are presented to interpret both the friend's motivation and the dangerous attraction exerted by fundamentalist movements such as the Christian Coalition.
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