Five Things Christian Fundamentalists Just Don't Get | Sean McElwee
Right-wing Evangelical Fundamentalism claims to "go back to
roots of Christianity." In fact, the "literal" (i.e., the earth was
created in seven literal days) reading of the Bible was
invented in the 19th century.
Few fundamentalists care about the early church, the Gospels, the
Catholic traditions, Augustine, Arian heresies, encyclicals and
councils. Rather, they blend Southern Conservatism, bastardized
Protestantism, some Pauline doctrine, gross nationalism and a heavy dose
of naive anti-intellectualism for a peculiar American strain of
bullshit. As Reverend Cornel West has noted, "the fundamentalist
Christians want to be fundamental about everything, except 'love thy
neighbor.'"
Here are some verses we liberal Christians wish they would get "fundamentalist" about:
Right-wing Evangelical Fundamentalism claims to "go back to
roots of Christianity." In fact, the "literal" (i.e., the earth was
created in seven literal days) reading of the Bible was
invented in the 19th century.
Few fundamentalists care about the early church, the Gospels, the
Catholic traditions, Augustine, Arian heresies, encyclicals and
councils. Rather, they blend Southern Conservatism, bastardized
Protestantism, some Pauline doctrine, gross nationalism and a heavy dose
of naive anti-intellectualism for a peculiar American strain of
bullshit. As Reverend Cornel West has noted, "the fundamentalist
Christians want to be fundamental about everything, except 'love thy
neighbor.'"
Here are some verses we liberal Christians wish they would get "fundamentalist" about:
