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fundamentalismIn religion, an emphasis on basic principles or articles of faith. Christian fundamentalism emerged in the USA just after World War I (as a reaction to theological modernism and the historical criticism of the Bible) and insisted on belief in the literal truth of everything in the Bible. Islamic fundamentalism insists on strict observance of Muslim Shari'a law. Christian fundamentalists (in the sense used by most US 20th-century fundamentalist churches) also believe in the divinity of Christ, the virgin birth, the atonement, and the resurrection of Christ as essential parts of their faith. Liberal Christian theologians have questioned all these points.
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| We frequently hear about Muslim and Christian fundamentalists, but it is not often that we encounter reporting on Jewish fundamentalism, and can explore how different their values are from those of mainstream Americans, and how this type of fundamentalism affects the situation in the Middle East. A perfect illustration of bait-and-switch--distract attention from the perpetrators' fundamentalism by blaming the victims. Verbal sparring about fundamentalism, racism, poverty, the existence of God abound, as does the ability to find love even amid a battlefield of ideas. |
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