Another group of people identified by Marcus Borg are the critical thinkers. These are people who, because of the way they were born or the way they have become in this post-modern age, cannot help but think critically about whatever is presented to them. These are the people who recognize that Newtonian physics and Biblical fundamentalism have more in common with each other than either has to do with the world in which we live. Newtonian physics assumed that you could describe in simple terms and formulas the world that you observe. Now people involved in quantum physics and chaos theory say that it is not so simple.
Biblical fundamentalists are of the same mentality.
They can describe the world simply and accurately the way they believe it really is. The post- modern understanding of the world says nothing is that simple. You have to look at things critically. These are the people who see that language provides no more than a set of labels for trying to make sense of the world. I was struck by something related to this subject in my favorite section of the New York Times not long ago.