Fundamentalism

The GOP's War on Children

Bruce Kluger | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Gop, Dog on the Roof!, Children, Obamacare, Conservatism, Obama, Children?S Health Insurance Program, Politics, 2012 Presidential Election, Colleen Clapp, Bruce Kluger, Women, Rush Limbaugh, Budget, Bullying, Mitt Romney, Medicaid, Mormonism, Parenting, Pell Grants, War on Terror, Education, Michele Bachmann, Wall Street, Rolling Stone, On the Road With Mitt and the Mutt, Head Start, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Gays, Utah, David Slavin, Jack Denton Reese, Politics News

As in most presidential election years, noisy battles have been raging as the nation's political armies gear up for what promises to be an even nois...

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Was Jesus A Fundamentalist?

Aaron Taylor | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Nonviolence, Samaritans, Old Testament, Faith Healer, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Fundamentalism, New Testament, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Religion News

When I was in my early 20s, a Bible teacher posed a rhetorical question that continues to haunt me to this day: "If Jesus was your only source of information about what Christianity should look like, how would you live your life?"

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Conflicting Ideologies And Entangled Narratives

William Grassie | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Bertrand Russell, Fundamentalism, Thomas Berry, Ideology, Big History, Science and Religion, Religion and Science, Religion News

How do we decide which stories are worthy of our affirmation and support? Which narratives have the power to convince, convert and transform? Which religion does one choose?

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5 Insights From The World's Religions

Jeffrey Small | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Interfaith Dialogue, Judaism, Interfaith, Religious Wisdom, Religion News

One of the greatest benefits of interfaith dialogue is that by studying another's faith we might learn a bit of wisdom, a new way of looking at reality, that we can incorporate into our own.

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Child Friendly Faith

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Progressive Christianity, Religious Child Maltreatment, Raising Children, Fundamentalism, Parenting, Child Abuse, Children, Religion News

Our goal is to educate the public about religious influences on children with the goal being to ensure that a religious upbringing is a positive experience for all children

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From Organized Religion To Disorganized Religion

Chris Ladd | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, John Osteen, Lakewood Church, Big Round Church, Christian Fundamentalism, Disorganized Religion, Church Attendance, Joel Osteen, Christianity, Religion News

The thundering roar of American Bible-thumping may be drowning out the patter of footsteps leaving the pews. America may be trailing Europe, but it seems be on the same path.

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Rebuilding The Evangelical Mind Requires Courage

Karl Giberson, Ph.D | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Francis Collins, Christian Fundamentalism, Evolution, Evangelicals, Biola, Christianity, Evangelical Christianity, Religion News

Evangelical Christians have been shedding their "fundamentalist baggage" and reclaiming a place within deeper traditions of Christian learning and at the table of American cultural life.

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How the GOP Lost Its Mind: Rule and Ruin

Chris Ladd | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Rat Finks, Fundamentalism, Young Republicans, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Rule and Ruin, Brent Bozell, Richard Nixon, Republican Moderate, Media Research Center, Ronald Reagan, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Neo-Confederate, Parent Television Council, Barry Goldwater, William Buckley, Southern Strategy, Politics News

An organization that always turns right can only move in circles, or more accurately, in an ever tightening spiral. Rule and Ruin aims to explain how the GOP came to be drawn into its accelerating tornado of extremism.

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Atheism: A Null Hypothesis On God

Christian Piatt | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Ricky Gervais, Atheism, God, Scientific Method, Metaphysical Society, John Caputo, Science, Belief, Faith, Agnosticism, Thomas Huxley What Is Atheism, Atheism Null Hypothesis, Disproving God, Religion News

There is no way to prove or disprove the existence of God. Especially when we can't even nail down what exactly it is we're talking about.

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Religion Is Divisive and Conservative -- and a Very Good Thing

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Religious Conservatism, Fundamentalism, Liberal Religion, Religious Divisiveness, Compassion, Religious Diversity, Religion News

Religion rejects the arrogance of those who assume that by virtue of the fact that they are here now, they possess greater insight into the human condition than revered teachers of old.

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The Universe Between Atheism And Fundamentalism

William Grassie | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Jerusalem, Universalism, Religion and Science, Atheism, Religion News

Between the extremes, there is a possibility: that all religions are partly true, depending on how they are interpreted.

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Rising Above Fundamentalism: How Do We Become Saints?

Kemal Argon | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Islam, Interfaith Understanding, Christianity, Sufism, Sainthood, Inter-Religious Dialoge, Religion News

Talking about sainthood is one way to regain a focus back onto spirituality, away from distraction and spiritual poverty.

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Why We Hate Atheists: Fear Of The Faithless

Mark Matousek | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Hatred, Fundamentalism, Moral Psychology, Terror, Altruism, Atheism, Rapists, Politics News

Atheists challenge this family system. We stand outside the big tent, wondering why the faithful have so little faith in the inherent goodness of human beings.

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Hitchens: Arch-Fundamentalist?

Roger Housden | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Literature, Fundamentalism, Cancer, Newt Gingrich, Faith, Christopher Hitchens, Death & Dying, Christopher Hitchens Atheism, Religion News

For all his posturing and bombast, Christopher Hitchens devoted his life to what he believed in, and that is as good a legacy as any.

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Occupy Christmas!

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Kurt Vonnegut, Jesus, Christmas, War on Christmas, Jackson Browne, Season's Greetings, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News

It doesn't matter whether or not you believe in God or which faith you follow if you do. Here's a question worth asking this holiday season: Would Jesus be an Occupy demonstrator? The Bible suggests that He would.

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Why Religious Fundamentalism Can't Last

Christian Piatt | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Fundamentalism, Postmodern Theology, Christian Theology, Postmodernism, Jesus, Christianity, Christian Fundamentalism, Mark Driscoll, John Piper, Emerging Church, Christian, Postmodern Christianity, Religion News

Although fundamentalist and dogmatic approaches to religion may be more vocal in their reaction to the emerging church, this does not necessarily mean that they are gaining popular momentum.

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Should Freethinkers Shun Or Claim The Language Of Spirituality?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Secular Spirituality, Fundamentalism, Morality, Secular Ethics, Nontheist, Evangelicalism, Atheist Spirituality, Freethought, Universal Ethics, Atheism, Ethics, Religion News

We now know that the moral dimension of human life derives not from religion but from our need, as social animals, to cooperate and live in community with each other.

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On The Death Of My Mother And The Nature of Love

Andrew Himes | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Fundamentalism, Evangelical, Growing Up Fundamentalist, Growing Up Christian, Rejecting Christianity, Jesus Christ, Christian Theology, Teachings of Jesus, Fundamentalist, Christian Fundamentalists, Christian Love, Christian, Christian Compassion, Death & Dying, Christianity, Religion News

That's the image of Mom that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. She was a woman who bore up through terrible pain, who was damaged by that pain and lived through it.

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The Religious Sex Abuse Epidemic

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Religion, Fundamentalism, Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Tony Alamo, Eddie Long, Catholic Church, Christianity, Judaism, Religion News

Sexually repressive religions suffer numerous allegations of sexual abuse, which makes sense when you consider the effect that their scripture might have on normal sexual behavior.

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God, Liquor And The Gospel Of Ken Burns

Ben Stevens | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Christian Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Christianity, Liquor, Ken Burns, Prohibition, Drug Prohibition, Film, Religion and Politics, Religion in America, Prohibition Documentary, Modern Prophets, Ken Burns Prohibition, American Morality, Ethics, Religion News

Even when we lament their zeal, our society needs the kinds of unpopular people who are extremely outspoken about public morality.

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Hate: The Tie That Binds the Religious Right

James Peron | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Mitt Romney, Mormons, Fundamentalism, Religious Right, Hate, Bigotry, Rick Perry, Elections 2012, Republicans, Politics News

Since fundamentalists make up the bulk of the Religious Right today, and they loathe their Mormon and Catholic allies, what keeps this coalition together? Only finding a perceived enemy, whom they all hate more than each other, allows them to work together.

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Fundamentalists, Mormons and the "Christian" Question

Randall Balmer | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Christians, Mormons, Roman Catholics, Jon Huntsman, Robert Jeffress, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Latter-Day Saints, One Baptism, Fundamentalism, 2012, Religion News

One of the changes in fundamentalism is that it's no longer acceptable publicly to criticize Roman Catholics as "non-Christians," even though most fundamentalists, in their heart of hearts, continue to believe it.

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Emerging from Fundamentalism

Andrew Himes | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Fundamentalism, Evangelical, Growing Up Fundamentalist, Growing Up Christian, Rejecting Christianity, Jesus Christ, Christian Theology, Teachings of Jesus, Fundamentalist, Christian Fundamentalists, Christian Love, Christian, Christian Compassion, Religion News

I entertained the illusion that I was free of my grandfather altogether - free of his religion, free of his politics, free of his culture, free of his belief in God, and free, almost, of my family.

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Billionaire Bishop Charged With Bilking Brazil's Pentacostals, Sending Money to US

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Catholics, Racketeering, Major League Baseball, Rico, Flight Capital, Billy Sunday, Rede Record, Rick Perry, Televangelists, Evangelical, Pentacostal, Brazil, Edir Macedo, Barack Obama, Anti-Semitism, Fundamentalism, Extremism, World News

After a long investigation by the federal police Brazil's attorney general is finally litigating the big fraud and racketeering case against the self-anointed Pentecostal Bishop Edir Macedo.

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The 'Glocalized' Roots Of Religious Politics: Extremism From Below, Not Abroad

Monica Duffy Toft | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion and Politics, Fundamentalism, Islam, Arab Spring, Middle East, Christianity, Arab Revolutions, Roots of Religious Politics, Glocalized Roots of Religious Politics, Religious Politics, Al Qaeda, Religion News

What the Arab uprisings revealed is that today's people desire less a unified ideology around a single leader or leadership that touts triumphalism over some form of evil and more a system of sound governance.

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