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Politics : Evolution
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To: one_less who wrote (27110)6/14/2012 5:46:11 PM
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not sure what is meant by "American Fundamentalism" but it seems to me "Religious Dogma" is a term closer to your target. Dogma is a fixed belief or set of beliefs people are expected to accept without any doubts . That is where most systems of thought are problematic, because certainty is not a natural condition of human thinking.

You see fundamentist thought generally rising out of solid pockets in regional rural America where there's high ethnic concentrations , originally more Protestant, Puritan & later the literalist Baptists which was all part of conflicts of doctrines going back to 1600 England completely caught up with the poilitics too . That was a time of considerable political and religious turmoil. Both individuals and churches were willing to give up their theological roots if they became convinced that a more biblical "truth" had been discovered, just as it was 2000yrs ago & before , caught up in trifles of rituals & interpretation relative always to the times . Arguing over who had the right interpretations & who could trace lineage back to the original source intentions & to the archetype "Christ" & Biblical teachings .

As with all things we note theology was shaped relative to the the economics & conditions of the times , Southern Baptists in powerful state conventions back in 1845 gave reasoning to their way of life founded in large part on the premise that the Bible sanctions slavery and was acceptable for Christians to own slaves. They believed then slavery was a human institution which Baptist teaching would somehow make better , but here an open mind sees just how underlaying base economics rules ultimately over some 'divine ethic"? Come 130yrs later came the great apology by the Baptist coalitions in 1995 , a long time coming ...
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