Fundamentalism

BidenPresident said:
At a certain point, all religions are fundamentalist. Christianity in our nation has always been fundamentalist.
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No, not really. Mainstream Protestant faiths, and American Roman Catholicism, are not fundamentalist religions. One of the hallmarks of that is a literal interpretation of the Bible, the belief that they may be poor and downtrodden now, but glory is coming as long as they strictly adhere to whatever their particular church is teaching. Everyone else is wrong, including other Xtian faiths. Fundamentalist Judaism and Islam is much the same way.

I see Biden supporters as the former; the Toadstool Cultists are much more like the latter. Notice how they try to drive out of their ranks any dissenters or any who DARE to criticize their #MalignantMessiah? Typical of fundies.
 
Jarod said:
Those who held onto the idea that the old ways are better, became the Fundy's, those who believe the world is progressing are the progressives.
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"The Fundamentalist (or, more accurately, the beleaguered individual who comes to embrace fundamentalism) cannot stand freedom. He cannot find his way into the future, so he retreats to the past. He returns to an imagination of the glory days of his race and seeks to reconstitute both them and himself in their purer, more virtuous light. He gets back to basics. To fundamentals." - Stephen Pressfield
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
No, not really. Mainstream Protestant faiths, and American Roman Catholicism, are not fundamentalist religions. One of the hallmarks of that is a literal interpretation of the Bible, the belief that they may be poor and downtrodden now, but glory is coming as long as they strictly adhere to whatever their particular church is teaching. Everyone else is wrong, including other Xtian faiths. Fundamentalist Judaism and Islam is much the same way.

I see Biden supporters as the former; the Toadstool Cultists are much more like the latter. Notice how they try to drive out of their ranks any dissenters or any who DARE to criticize their #MalignantMessiah? Typical of fundies.
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Don't agree. As I stated, the term is fairly meaningless.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
No, not really. Mainstream Protestant faiths, and American Roman Catholicism, are not fundamentalist religions. One of the hallmarks of that is a literal interpretation of the Bible, the belief that they may be poor and downtrodden now, but glory is coming as long as they strictly adhere to whatever their particular church is teaching. Everyone else is wrong, including other Xtian faiths. Fundamentalist Judaism and Islam is much the same way.

I see Biden supporters as the former; the Toadstool Cultists are much more like the latter. Notice how they try to drive out of their ranks any dissenters or any who DARE to criticize their #MalignantMessiah? Typical of fundies.
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"Fundamentalism" is used by Protestants to demean those lesser Christians who don't believe as they do. The very notion of basing your belief on a text written thousands of years ago is the true definition of fundamentalism.
 
Jarod said:
"The Fundamentalist (or, more accurately, the beleaguered individual who comes to embrace fundamentalism) cannot stand freedom. He cannot find his way into the future, so he retreats to the past. He returns to an imagination of the glory days of his race and seeks to reconstitute both them and himself in their purer, more virtuous light. He gets back to basics. To fundamentals." - Stephen Pressfield
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Which defines Christians, Protestant and Catholics.
 
Hello T. A. Gardner,

T. A. Gardner said:
The Left is far better at this historically and we can see the repeated results in wrecked economies, wrecked societies, and the social disasters they have created then walked away from.
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Example of a 'wrecked economy' the American left has 'walked away from,' please?
 
Hello Jarod,

Jarod said:
Fundamentalism is the philosophy of the powerless, the conquered, the displaced and the dispossessed. Its spawning ground is the wreckage of political and military defeat, as Hebrew fundamentalism rose during the Babylonian captivity, as white Christian fundamentalism appeared in the American South during Reconstruction, as the notion of the Master race evolved in Germany following World War I. In such desperate times, the vanquished race would perish without a doctrine that restored hope and pride. Islamic fundamentalism ascends from the same landscape of despair and possesses the same tremendous and patient appeal. - Steven Pressfield

Can you see the difference between the Biden supporter and the Trump Supporter.

One believes we live in a fallen world, the other a hopeful world not yet to see its peak.
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Trump campaigned on his MAGA slogan, claiming to make America great again, as if America was previously great but is no longer.

But he never once explained: When America was previously great, When that ceased to be, Nor by what metric he is defining great.

This is a country in which Donald Trump was able to become a billionaire, and he doesn't think it's great?

What prevents America from being great if he can become a billionaire?

It is perplexing why Trump supporters are so pessimistic about America.

This liberal thinks America was already great before Trump took over, and continues to be great despite anything he did, and always stands room for more improvement.

I think Make America Greater makes more sense.
 
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