Ernie Enriquez03/17/14CTH 244ReligionIntroduction As ancient as the earth is a question torments many scholars, philosophers, theologians, priests, rabbis, and imams. This question that has existed since man existed is: “What is the Absolute?” Over the centuries, philosophers such as George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, and many others since Socrates have answered these questions from a multitude of perspectives. However, just as all philosophers had to describe what the absolute is, religion has also attempted to answer or account for this ultimate question. With this question posed of what absolute truth is, Abrahamic religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all answer the same question. Their answer is that there is a divine entity above our natural world in the supernatural in which man cannot access this supernatural to understand the form of the divine. However, the view and practice of the form of God differs in each of these Abrahamic religions. The three religions' differing practices as to what the supernatural is and how one should praise the supernatural can create problems due to a misunderstanding of each other's practices and beliefs. With a disconnect of every religion stemming from the idea of ​​absolute truth, this falsely and problematically creates an "urgent" need to defend one's faith in order to continue the existence of one's religion for future generations. With this sense of urgency, fundamentalist practices and sects arise from this sense of urgency. However, when a fundamentalist sect is created, in order to defend and combat those of the dominant religion in order to ensure the continuity of their "true" religion, In the fifth... middle of article..., this article will talk about the forms and structure of fundamentalism specifically in Christianity and Islam. To begin investigating what fundamentalism is, it is relevant to understand how it is structured, how it responds to dominant religions, and why it exists. To define fundamentalism, fundamentalism is a reaction, whether religious or political, against the current dominant societal dogma or ideology. With this reaction against any set of dominant political and religious ideologies, what makes a group fundamentalist is defined through these characteristics, as Richard T. Antoun of the State University of New York at Binghamton explained. Antoun defines fundamentalism as follows: “Fundamentalist movements are defined ideologically, by their opposition and reaction against the ideology that suits the permissive secular society, the ideology of modernism” (Antoun)., 3)