Fundamentalism

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Woo Woo Is a Step Ahead of (Bad) Science

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living

Read More: John Maddox, Fundamentalism, Michael Shermer, Materialism, Life-After-Death, Neuroscience, Scientific American, Charles Darwin, Science, Evolution, Albert Einstein, Living News

For those who aren't familiar with the term, "woo woo" is a derogatory reference to almost any form of unconventional thinking, aimed by professional skeptics.

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Evangelicals, Israel, and the End of the World

David Heilbroner | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

Read More: Fundamentalism, Armageddon, End Times, Israel, Taliban, Waiting for Armageddon, Bible Prophecy, Evangelicals, 2012, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, The Rapture, Middle East, Pat Robertson, World News

There are some 50 million Evangelicals in the US who believe in the literal truth of Bible prophecy. All are fixated upon Israel. Because for a great many true believers, the end of the world is just the beginning.

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The Best Books of the Decade

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Snow, My Name Is Red, The Museum of Innocence, White Teeth, Aleksander Hemon, Orhan Pamuk, Civil Liberties, Dystopian Fiction, Modernization, Margaret Atwood, William Boyd, Multiculturalism, Philip Roth, Oryx and Crake, Netherland, Immigrants, Zadie Smith, Joseph O'Neill, Poetry, Fundamentalism, Terrorism, The Plot Against America, Iraq War, Post-9/11 America, Bush Administration, Racism, Islam, Books News

Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."

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Huckabee Seduced By Cop Killer's Christianity?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Faith Based Initiatives, Church-State Separation, Evangelicalism, Maurice Clemmons, Mike Huckabee, Religion, Politics News

Since Clemmons was pardoned by Mike Huckabee, the presidential hopeful who has made fundamentalist religion the center of his politics, I couldn't help wondering if religion played a part.

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dialogue, Fundamentalism, Culture War, Health Care Plan, Compromise, Immigrants, Poor, Health Care Provider, Abortion, Values, Health Care Coverage, Insurance Plan, Contraception, Poverty Reduction, Justice, Pro-Life Democrats, Member of Congress, Health Care, Status Quo, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Insurance Reform, Religion, Pregnancies, Democracy, Abortion Reduction, Culture Wars, Subsidies, Public Option, Tax Dollars, Common Ground, Medicaid, Families, Federal Subsidies, Stereotype, Healthcare, Interpretation, Moral Values, Agendas, Progressive, Culture Warrior, Women, Application, Health Plan, Principle, Segregation, Faith Community, Schip, Abortion Debate, Moral Imperative, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Religious Community, Rhetoric, Politics News

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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Patience With God: Taking on Atheists and Christian Fundamentalists -- An Interview with Frank Schaeffer

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Fundamentalism, Christianity, Frank Schaeffer, Atheism, God, Evangelicals, Living News

Frank Schaeffer has some big problems with fundamentalist Christians. But he also has big problems with the New Atheists.

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Living in Paradox: Intention or Surrender?

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

The reality of our life, whether we like it or not, includes both ends of this spectrum. Everything is happening on its own and everything is flowing through intention.

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America Needs A True Revolution Of Values

David A. Love | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Evangelical Christians, United Nations, Secession, Green, Green Business, Obama, Health Insurance, Green Energy, Fundamentalists, Fascism, Tax Day Tea Party, Values Voters, Mike Huckabee, Values, Green Technology, Republican Party, Health Care, Tea Party, Carrie Prejean, Jim Demint, Fascist, Environmentalism, Christian Right, Green Living, Barack Obama, Values Voters Summit, Michele Bachmann, Martin Luther King, Family Values, Health Care Reform, Environment, Green News, Value Voters Summit, Bill O'Reilly, Healthcare, Republicans, Marvin Gaye, Politics News

Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?

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Between Blinders & Bible-Thumping, Fanciful Flights & Party Suicide, Where is America Heading?

Jane Devin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Religion, Magical Thinking, Radio Flyer Movie, Dogma, Conservatism, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

In the fantastical world of fundamentalist religiopolitics, it is acceptable for Glenn Beck to call Obama a racist, but not acceptable to question the racial motives behind the frighteningly ignorant attacks on Obama.

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What if the Right was Right? A Reflection on the "Christian States of America."

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Fundamentalism, Social Justice, President Obama, Teabaggers, Islamists, Secularism, Violence, Globalization, Gun Control, International Law, Obama, Christian Nation, Religious Right, Guns, Nation-State, Politics, Gandhi, Us Constitution, Moral Majority, Christ, Taxation, Health Care, Spirituality, Taxes, Christian Right, Jesus, Terrorism, War, Democracy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Terroists, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Far Right, Progressive Christianity, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, Christianity, Socialism, World, Gospels, Politics News

I am not saying that Jesus was a Stalinist or even a communist, just that it's very clear from his teachings that he believed that people were happier and healthier when they shared with each other.

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America's Great Religion

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, White House, Federal Reserve, Capitalism, Democrats, Barack Obama, Religion, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Wall Street, Health, Religion and Politics, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Henry Louis Gates, Republicans, Politics News

The Islamic clerics are to Iran what Wall St. is to the U.S.

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A Capitalist Fundamentalist

Nelson Davis | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Fundamentalism, Small Business, California, Capitalism, Business News

I carry the missionary zeal necessary to be a good fundamentalist and feel that if more people understood and embraced my capitalist beliefs, the world would be a better place.

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Believer, Beware "Gets" The Funny (And Poignant) Side of Religion

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Fundamentalism, Religion, Writers, Books, Transgendered, Jeff-Sharlet, Religious Right, Comedy, Gay Issues, Living News

Believer Beware is laugh out loud funny, touching, irreverent and yet, in deeper ways, pays religion the ultimate compliment: it's worthy of scrutiny, debate, hate, and love.

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Al Jazeera Special Report Covers Advance of Fundamentalism in US Military

Bruce Wilson | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Josh Rushing, Fundamentalism, Al Jazeera, Jim Ammerman, Bruce Wilson, Brent Scowcroft, Liars for Jesus, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Talk to Action, Mrff, Mikey Weinstein, Chris Rodda, Politics News

A report from Al Jazeera expertly covers a topic the US media has been reluctant to address: an aggressive effort to advance a heavily sectarian, supremacist form of Christianity in the United States military.

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Does the Bible Inspire Hate and Intolerance?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Bart D. Ehrman, Fundamentalism, Bible, Fred Phelps, Fundamentalists, Extremism, Living News

I believe the Bible offers great historical material, but is not and cannot be credited with any Supreme Being as its author.

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Evil Among Us

Brittany Huckabee | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Fundamentalism, Islam, Church, Morgantown, Mosques, Christianity, Muslim, The-Mosque-in-Morgantown, Living News

Ultimately, I don't believe the sermons given at the mosque in Morgantown represent anything more or less dangerous than those I heard in my church. They reflect the universal fare of conservative religion.

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Church-Going and Torture Approval -- What's the Connection?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Christianity, Torture, Atonement Theology, Politics News

In case you missed it, Pew released survey data showing that the more frequently someone went to church, the more likely they were to approve of torture.

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Surprises from Liberty University: What I Learned as an Undercover Evangelical

Kevin Roose | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell, Christian Right, Religious Tolerance, Liberty University, Evangelicals, Politics News

When I stepped on to the campus of Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University for my first day as a new transfer student, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into.

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How We All Bow to the Saudi King

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

The US is showing some signs of "getting tough" with Israel. But where are the calls for getting tough with Saudi Arabia, that "other" country that has now enjoyed virtually unconditional, bipartisan support from the United States for decades?

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Where There's a Will There's a Won't

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Fundamentalism, International Community, Inherent Goodness, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Therapy, Zen, Well-Being, George F. Will, Evolution, Paradigm Shift, Bill O'Reilly, Inner Peace, Utopianism, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

When did viewing the world with a sense of wonder at its marvels and goodwill toward its occupants ever feel unnatural? It's the most natural state on earth.

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Ancient Sumerian Origins of the Easter Story

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Easter, Pat Robertson, Religious Right, Christianity, Bible, Fundamentalism, Politics News

The Christian Bible culminates in a death and resurrection story. What is this story, and where did it come from?

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Religious Fundamentalism Spreads... Beyond Islam

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Varun Gandhi, Islam, Fundamentalism, Bible, Sri Ram Sena, Gaza, Judaism, Oic, Islamic Extremists, Taliban, Promised Land, Pope Benedict XVI, Homosexuality, Religion, Hinduism, Avigdor Lieberman, Torah, Quran, Christianity, Idf, Israel, Old Testament, Stoning, World News

It is problematic that characters in these stories -- the Pope, a member of India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, a Knesset leader, a Canadian federal minister -- are influential, mainstream figures.

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Despite the Riots and Threats, I Stand By What I Wrote

Johann Hari | Posted 03.15.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Fundamentalism, India, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, Secularism, Riots Johann Hari Statesman, Johann Hari Riot, Johann Hari Riots India, Johan Hari India, World News

Last week, I wrote an article defending free speech for everyone -- and in response there have been riots, death threats, and the arrest of an editor who published the article.

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President Obama's Mother, Hillary Clinton and Muhammad Yunus: Microcredit and Grameen in the U.S.

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Fundamentalism, Women, Yunus, Microcredit, Indonesia, Gates Foundation, Ann Dunham Soetero, Hillary Clinton, Citibank, Microcredit Loan, Business News

Microcredit is the one banking system that is actually working. What other bank these days is made up mostly of women borrowers and can claim a 98-99% payback rate? Surely not Citibank!

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Beyond the Rick Warren Controversy: Two Questions About Love and Justice

Valerie Tarico | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Stem Cell Research, Obama Invocation, Evangelical, Wedge Issues, Fundamentalism, Rick Warren, Living News

The role of the evangelical minister is to help his followers know what is real and how to live. It is about taking our complicated, fast-moving, sometimes scary world and distilling it into Four Spiritual Laws.

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