Fundamentalism

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• Refreshing

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 141
  Once a far right conservative, and now a moderate liberal, Marty Beckerman, in Salon today,  shares his epiphany: I’ve learned to see the big picture. It doesn’t matter whether you are liberal or conservative, but it’s dangerous to always think with exclamation points instead of question marks. Your stance ...
  23 hours ago

• No Christian license plates for SC, federal judge rules

  
  Daisy's Dead Air — Authority: 494
  And finally, the judge says NO. South Carolina cant issue I Believe tag, federal judge rules By Tim Smith • Staff writer • November 10, 2009 Greenville News COLUMBIA -- A federal judge today ordered the state to stop producing "I Believe" license plates, ruling the case is a "textbook example" of a ...
  1 day ago

• Harvey Cox on Fundamentalism

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 496
  My brother alerted me to an article that ran in the Boston Globe on Sunday by Harvey Cox, called “Why Fundamentalism Will Fail.” Among other things, this hopeful essay suggests that fundamentalism is on the way out because mysticism is on the way in. I only hope he’s right. Here’s a link to the article: ...
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• Fundamentalists, like atheists, lack basic social skills

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 619
  So heres some sect that decided to provide the Andrew Sullivans of the world with a little grist for the "Christianist" mill by hosting a Halloween book burning . Cuz Christians can only benefit from association with Nuremburg Rallies. The heretics who were burned by proxy include such menaces to the gospel as Billy ...
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• Proving Christianity with inerrancy

  
  Undeception — Authority: 415
  In a discussion involving my rejection of inerrancy, a frequent commenter mentioned the inerrantist objection, ”Without [our Bible] can we confidently walk up to a non-believer and ask him to believe our own personal faith in God without showing him something that he can see that points to that God?” The first ...
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• Harvey Coxs breathless announcement: Fundamentalism (i.e. Christian faith) is doomed!!!

  
  Pyromaniacs — Authority: 578
  by Dan Phillips [Normally, triple- exclamation-points would be a stylistic faux pas... but in this case, theyre essential!!!] If you have absolutely nothing better to do with your time, read this 2000+ word essay by Harvard professor Harvey Cox ( retired ), and tell me one thing new that he says. ...
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• Toward a Positive Agenda for Young Fundamentalists

  
  SharperIron — Authority: 491
  Being up to my ears in SharperIron.org doesn’t qualify me to speak for Young Fundamentalists or try to prescribe an agenda for them. A scan of my bona fides doesn’t reveal anything that would especially commend me for the job either. But I do care, so I offer here some thoughts on a question that is on some minds ...
  1 day ago

• CBTS Fall Conference Audio available, plus some by Greg Stiekes

  
  Immoderate — Authority: 106
  A couple weeks ago, I gave some of my initial thoughts on the Fall Conference by Central Baptist Theological Seminary . I highly recommended your listening to several sessions when the became available. They may now be downloaded . Again, I recommend those lectures by Kevin Bauder and the final one by Robert Delnay ...
  2 days ago

• Fundamentalism death watch

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 532
  Although neither God nor fundamentalism is dead, Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox believes the latter is on its deathbed.Cox’s article in the Boston Globe looks at the history of fundamentalism, and proclaims “that for all its apparent strength, the fundamentalist sun is setting on all horizons.” Cox ...
  2 days ago

• The Prophet and the Proletariat

  
  American Leftist — Authority: 119
  Last week, Chris Harman died . He was a Marxist-Leninist of the Trotskyist kind, a member of the Socialist Workers Party known for its active intervention in British politics and social life. He died while in Egypt, providing praiseworthy support to the burgeoning labor movement there in opposition to President ...
  2 days ago

• Why fundamentalism will fail

  
  Sola Dei Gloria — Authority: 525
  (HT to Polycarp). This is a fascinating article posted at the Boston Globe. After reading through it I found myself pondering on the implications for future generations, if Jesus tarries. Those that read here know I have no use for the terms fundamentalism or fundamentalist, as they are used today. Whatever it ...
  2 days ago

• Fundamentalism: Whence? Where? Whither? Part 11

  
  SharperIron — Authority: 491
  The Social Shift, Continued Read Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part 8 , Part 9 , and Part 10 . The Fundamentalist movement emerged from a broader, “proto-Fundamentalist” evangelicalism in about 1920. It was the result of a combination of influences, some social, some ...
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• Fascism Rears Its Ugly Head

  
  Georgia Mountains and Beyond — Authority: 118
  Germany lost World War I, but the war was fought on foreign soil, and that country was severely punished by the allied powers. The Germany of the post war era was economically ravished. German workers were generally poor peasants and workers, and they were hungry and jobless. In 1918 a group known as the Thule ...
  3 days ago

• Europeans too selfish to have children, says Chief Rabbi

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 589
  The leader of Britain’s Jewish community claimed the continent’s population is in decline because people care more about shopping than the sacrifice involved in parenthood. He blamed atheist “neo-Darwinians” for Europe’s low birth rate and said religious people of all denominations are more likely to ...
  3 days ago

• The Fort Hood Tragedy – not another 9 11

  
  Daily Renewal: Freethinking Bipartisanship — Authority: 131
  Although the restive right is eager to have an act of terrorism to blame on to Obama, what happened at Ft. Hood is hardly a repeat of September Eleven.  We don’t face other equally angry  US Muslims ready to bring violence to American institutions.  Sure, Al-Qaeda would like this to happen, but so far they are ...
  4 days ago

• Weeping for All the Victims

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 125
  I share with most people, the sadness of what transpired at Fort Hood in Texas. Sadness that so many were harmed and killed, grief that war continues to take its toll even off the battlefield. What I most fervently prayed for, in those initial moments, is that no Muslim or Latino would be involved. Of course, that ...
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• Faith On Fire!

  
  NotionsCapital — Authority: 490
  Amazing Grace Baptist Church in North Carolina held its annual Bible Barbecue last week, on Halloween. The Church believes that the 1611 King James Bible (commissioned by the bisexual British monarch) is the only true  Scripture. Each year Amazing Grace collects and carbonizes copies of “perversions” ...
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• CAN WE BEFRIEND THE ELEMENTS? (reprise)

  
  MAGICK RIVER — Authority: 424
  After a close encounter with the BN media circus yesterday morning, I realized we are actually dealing with an alien species - or former humans who have been implanted and bodysnatched by renegade reptilians - hence the massive communication gap that makes it virtually impossible for us to ever take the concept of ...
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• Appealing to Faith in a Search for Truth, Playing Tennis Without a Net

  
  Vridar — Authority: 415
  Before you appeal to faith when reason has backed you into a corner, think about whether you really want to abandon reason when reason is on your side.(This quote and the following post are largely taken from page 154 of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Dennett.)Many believers in God claim that their faith is something ...
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• Gay marriage loses in Maine: the campaign finance scorecard

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 587
  On Nov. 3, 299,483 citizens of the state of Maine were persuaded to tell women who love women and men who love men that they cannot marry. Those Downeasters who voted “Yes” on Question 1 — to repeal a same-sex marriage law — bashed gays, but with a referendum rather than a fist. Those 267,574 people who ...
  5 days ago

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