Religion
Related: About this forumChristian fundamentalism is relatively new.
This is a good Salon piece on the religious right. Again I am on my phone and don't have the cut/paste of test down well.
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/02/how_the_religious_right_won_birth_of_the_fundamentalists_in_our_modern_times/
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)Which the Bible doesn't allow! Yet they purport to believe in Biblical inerrancy!!
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Someone who believes every word in the Bible is literally true except "wine."
rug
(82,333 posts)Nowhere have the uses of history been clearer than in the clashes between conservative and progressive evangelicals for control of their denominations throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In the Southern Baptist Convention, many conservatives would have objected to the fundamentalist label as a Yankee epithet, a synonym for a barefoot bumpkin sorely lacking in southern grace. But if their self-perception was not fundamentalist, many of their goals and tactics were. The decisive battles over the meaning and role of the Bible in modern society did not, primarily, unfold in the form of dueling proof texts or Sunday pulpit ripostes, but in skirmishes for control of the machinery of intellectual authority: seminaries, missions boards, denominational presses, and authorized church history. The personal magnetism of gurus was not sufficient to stanch the secularist tide. Just as thousands of volunteers at Billy Grahams crusades worked to settle new converts into local churches before their enthusiasm could evaporate, conservative activists knew that the fervor wandering sages left in their wake would fizzle unless channeled into institutions and sustained by an infrastructure built to teach and train future generations.
AnnieBW
(10,459 posts)Religious fundamentalism has been around since at least the Renaissance. Look up Savonarola, Torquemada, and other crazies.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)And none of the people you mentioned would fit the definition.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Think more along the lines of the puritans, the pilgrims.
Fundamentalism is not a Catholic thing, very far from it.
Julie
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)One can argue, correctly imho, that those people were fanatics but they were not fundies.
Fortinbras Armstrong
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She believes, for example, that the first eleven chapters of Genesis is an accurate account.
OTOH, last May, we had on DU a man who I would describe as a true Catholic fundamentalist, georges641. Georges seemed to believe that every belch issuing from a papal throat was to be taken as the Word of God. He defended Paul VI's encyclical on contraception, Humanae Vitae, while admitting that he had not read it. He flatly refused to believe that Catholic doctrine on faith and morals had ever changed, even when I gave him specific examples of changes (for example, the first explicit condemnation of slavery as immoral in and of itself came in 1888 -- before then, slavery was seen as morally acceptable). That's fundamentalism, Catholic style: Unthinking acceptance of teachings, refusal to accept the legitimacy of any sort of dissent from anything a pope or bishop had to say.
I think my real problem with georges was that he believed that thinking for oneself, in matters of faith, was wrong. He clearly rejected 1 Corinthians 13:11, "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child. Now that I am a man, I have put away childish things." His belief that Catholic doctrine had never changed can only be maintained by denying history (IOW, by lying to yourself) or by keeping yourself deliberately ignorance (willful ignorance is condemned in Catholic moral theology).