Another reason to for Americans to embrace the political wisdom of our Founders in prohibiting the establishment of a civil religion, especially with the challenge of theocratic
fundamentalism coming from many Red State Christians.
The word
Fundamentalism came into vogue in 1920 in relation to the Christian group who earlier published a set of twelve booklets under the title, Fundamentals.
The mentality of
fundamentalism comes into being whenever a believer is unwilling to trace the effects of original sin in his own life.
Not exact matches
My initial reaction was that New Atheism has
come full - circle and descended into the sort of self - parody seen on the fringes of Christian
fundamentalism.
The BioLogos position on origins sits partway between two
fundamentalisms: on the «left» end of the spectrum is the
fundamentalism of people like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett who are committed to the belief that the only reliable form of knowledge
comes from science, and that alternate ways of knowing must be either rejected entirely or completely subordinated to science.
Coming out of extreme
fundamentalism, I thought it was just the churches to which I'd been exposed early on.
The real attack
came from organized
fundamentalism.
Thus
fundamentalism, in its reaction to the
coming of the modern secular world, has reverted to a now outmoded world view.
It must be left to Muslims to refute Islamic
fundamentalism by showing how Islam can best
come to terms with the challenge of modernity.
I've
come to accept the fact that I will never recover from my anger at the church, at
fundamentalism, at anything even remotely spiritual... it's taken on overtones of PTSD.
When talking about the Christians who cherrypick their theology so they ignore the poor while focusing on «hot - button» issues, he caricatures his own «
fundamentalism» when it
comes to justice and jubilee.
But
fundamentalism has taken different forms in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, partly because of that which is unique to each, and partly because of the different ways in which they relate to the
coming of the modern world.
One of the chief differences between the two
fundamentalisms is that Christian
fundamentalism is fighting against something which has its seeds within Christianity, whereas Muslim
fundamentalism has set itself the task of eliminating all the evil influences which have
come from the outside.
According to that yardstick, vitality, at least intuitively, seems to increase with
fundamentalism and decrease with the broadened perspective (some would say relativism) that
comes with the oldline's historical consciousness and responsiveness to societal needs.
Fundamentalism has been characterized by (1) vigorous resistance to developments in the world of science that appeared to contradict the Biblical text; (2) Biblical literalism; (3) individualism; (4) moralism; and (5) insistence on belief in certain «fundamentals» such as the inerrancy of the Scriptures, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and his second
coming.
The universe or our section of the Celestial Cosmos may well have
come from the steadiness of inward to outward schizms of a breathe - right psychosis of technocratic euphanisms dependent upon the quarkiness states of relative resoundings much the way pure energy is sublimated via the smatterings of materials forever entrailing thru and throughout the
fundamentalisms yet unknowable to the logic - rythmed habidasheries of theoretical Life and Life essences in regularisms» denotations!
The antagonism
comes down to
fundamentalism versus science, not religion versus science.
When it
comes to «selective
fundamentalism,» I tend to wag my finger at other people — those who consider Fox News a reliable source of information, those who protest intensely against abortion but have nothing to say about poverty or torture or excessive materialism, those who consider Anne Coulter a representation of Christian values.
In both these emphases
fundamentalism, despite its much reading of the Bible, betrays a profound ignorance of the Bible, including the way in which it was written and
came into existence.
In addition,
fundamentalism offers a bonus: eternal life or salvation in the world to
come, to be won by taking refuge in a salvific Christ who needs only to be believed in, or in an unchanging Torah that needs only to be obeyed.
The threat to this idea of secularism arises form religious
fundamentalism which is afraid of insecurity through change in traditional religious dogmas, ritual practices of purity and impurity in social laws; the threat also
comes from communalism which seeks political power for one's religious community or in the case of Hindutva wants to establish a Hindu state.
And today, the threat to the further development of common humanist culture
comes from religious
fundamentalism and communalism which deny the reality of religious pluralism and the possibility of a composite human culture reinforced by many faiths and ideologies.
By this time Protestant Liberalism was also less vigorous and was being successfully countered by a strong reactionary movement which
came to be known as
fundamentalism.
This view may be influenced by free market ideology which is put forward as a silver bullet for a few of society's problems and sceptics have apparently
come put with the term market
fundamentalism to qualify the pseudo-religious views of some of its proponents.
Butin's intellectual embrace of
fundamentalism, the absolutism of his antiliberal stance, once again
comes as something of a shock.