Very interesting article about how Christian fundamentalists are further away from Christianity than you might think. We can see this in the example of Creationism, a theological doctrine that was largely discarded after Darwins Theory of Evolution was introduced. It made a resurgence recently and is now considered an important part of fundamentalist theology, even though it stopped being part of mainstream theology over 150 years ago. Anyway read this good article. Here is a quote: In fact, though the onslaught of criticism swells every day, fundamentalists increasingly embrace what has essentially become a slur as their distinguishing mark of faith. For those that embrace its ideology, being called a fundamentalist has become a badge of honor that marked them as more true to the heart of the faith than non-fundamentalists. For non-fundamentalists, this position of pseudo-piety is incredibly frustrating and obviously off-putting, but for church history folks like myself, the angst is double. Nay triple. Because, you see, the ironic thing about fundamentalism is that many of the beliefs they hold up to be fundamental tenets of Christianity are actual rather recent additions to the faith. Unfortunately, this fact is often and easily disguised both by fundamentalists themselves as well as unintentionally by some of their detractors. Fundamentalists themselves adhere to just enough genuinely orthodox beliefs to give their culturally conditioned extremism the veneer of orthodoxy. While their secular opponents portray them as truly adhering to core tenants of faith and/or central teachings of scripture that other, implicitly less faithful Christians not longer cling to. But fundamentalists are not more faithful to scripture and Christian orthodoxy than the rest of us. The ironic truth of the matter is they’re adding, not adhering to an ancient faith.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:44:01 +0000
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