Were you home schooled
by fundamentalist Christian parents who didn't want you in an environment where you might learn critical thinking skills?
Well, it's not QUITE the same argument
used by fundamentalist Muslims — I could name innumerable features which my argument lacks and which theirs might include, but would rather not, since I don't want to be too much of a jerk.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4 broadcast on Saturday, Mr. Rushdie spoke of the parallels between the anger at his novel and the past week's violent protests
by fundamentalist Muslims offended at the trailer for a crude film mocking the prophet.
Because of the distortions and lies spread
by fundamentalists about fossil: Smilodon; sabre - toothed tiger A discussion of California fossils — notably those of sabre - toothed tigers and the Smilodon — in the University of
Paid for
by fundamentalist group Christian Voice, the advert in the New Statesman entitled, «Violent crime - sowing and reaping», condemned government health policies, including giving a key cancer vaccine on the NHS, for focusing on curbing teenage pregnancy at the expense, the advert claimed, of teenage fertility.
A young girl
raised by fundamentalist parents collects the detritus of life to construct a world where things make sense, which she calls «The Land of Decoration.»
Of Gods and Men Description: Under threat
by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Of course the fundamentalist position is that the scripture authors had no bias — they just wrote down exactly what God told them to and the meaning 2000 to 3000 years later is accurately interpreted
by the fundamentalists of today.
Childs describes the biblical theology movement as a peculiarly American phenomenon which, though it owed something to European neo-orthodoxy, was also considerably
influenced by the fundamentalist - liberal controversy in...
One suspects that Scorsese's insistence on leaving it in suggests that either the artist in him rebelled against being told what he could or could not do, or some satanic impulse hinted that without that slight movement under the bedcovers, none of the publicity generated
by fundamentalist protest would have come about.
The virtual collapse of the very foundation of our political life
caused by fundamentalist forces and the politics of opportunism creates a serious situation which inevitably raises fresh challenges to the churches in India.
The virtual collapse of the very foundation of our political life caused
by fundamentalist forces and the politics of opportunism creates a serious situation.
I've recently been demonised
by fundamentalists who do not agree with my positive attitude towards the emerging church.
(Read here) Gays and lesbians are still stigmatised and
demonised by fundamentalist religious fraternity and right - wing conservatives, which have driven some of them to leave families and communities and even attempt suicide.
The president, who had been in office only a year and served under a conservative board of trustees
dominated by fundamentalists, had lengthy conversations with many parties.
One of the significant obstacles to Christian evangelisation in the 21st century is the widely held notion in the West, both by fundamentalist [1] Christians and by non-Christians, that there is an inherent conflict between science and religion.
«Frankly the all - party group is in danger of turning into a religious sect overwhelmingly
directed by the fundamentalist Christian wing of the Conservative parliamentary party.»
In any event, so far as the Bible was used, it was used in a way like that followed
today by fundamentalists: the words were taken at their face - value, even if that «face - value» seems a little odd and not always obviously what it is assumed to be.
Just ask any non-Christian in the military if they feel threatened
by a fundamentalist superior officer should they dare to opt out of such an event.
I can't really cite things I've heard said verbally in churches or at talks and I don't tend to read
books by fundamentalist Christians — not many anyway.
If science allows itself to be
hijacked by fundamentalists, whether religious or anti-religious, its intellectual integrity is subverted and its cultural authority is compromised.
The Palestinian / Israeli impasse is easily the most serious conflict in the world today and it is being continually
exacerbated by the fundamentalists of all three monotheistic faiths.
In view of the obvious devotion and commitment
displayed by fundamentalists, liberals have often leaned over backwards to accommodate their viewpoint.
I do not agree with many of the social & political beliefs
expounded by fundamentalist Christian organizations, but it was Christ who defined Christianity, not the fundamentalists & not the social justice Christians.
Most academicians are not fundamentalists, the vast majority are decidedly more sympathetic to nonfundamentalists than to fundamentalists, and a few have even been victims of physical violence and intimidation
perpetrated by fundamentalists leaders.
It reminds me so much of the (incorrect) statement
made by some fundamentalists that if a person «looses» their Christian faith, they never really had it to begin with.
Her book is also about an entertainment icon that has been
attacked by fundamentalists, Buffy has been assailed for championing occult figures like vampires and slayers and for its openness about adolescent sexuality.
and then there is Creare in Hanover NH which does classified government work and is run and
operated by fundamentalist christians that frown on any non-believers.