157 Fundamentalism vs. Evangelism

Fundamentalism & evangelicalism share the same conceptual base, except fundamentalism distorts & betrays the basic true religious concerns of evangelical. Instead finding the “warm, living gospel”, fundamentalism had become cold & hardened in its doctrines.

source: Conway, Flo, and Siegelman, Jim. Holy Terror, The Fundamentalist War on America’s Freedoms in Religion, Politics and Our Private Lives. 1st. USA: Doubleday, 1982. Print.

Does fundamentalism really preach about gospel of salvation for men? Or does it use the gospel as a weapon in an ideological conquest of men?

153 Christian Fundy vs. Muslim Fundy

Fundamentalism is a nasty terror in society & mind. The terror doesn’t come from the religion, it comes from a fanatic religion. Religion is good as long as no self-intention, ideology and political condition involved that leads to fundamentalism. Christian fundy and muslim fundy are basicly the same, they struggle to implement their ideology through force and propaganda into every aspect of the society. Except muslim fundy exists in their own traditional society, it’s a society that already designed with their own laws for generations. Even fundamentalism appears as higher purpose in the religion and their society. They defend their society against counter idea that comes from the other society. Christian fundy lives among the modern society, they try to change the society as act of defense for themselves.

146 Why Fundy Can’t Be A Rationalist

“There is nothing wrong with rational analysis, but when you use that to the exclusion of other things you’re going to leave out a lot of things that are important to people … The principles that we’re espousing are ones that have been around for thousands of years: the family as the basis of social organization, rather than the individual, faith in a transcendent world – that God is the creator of this world that we live in … What Helms has been doing is appealing to people by going around the leadership structures. The direct-mail short-circuits the media and goes right into people’s mailboxes. Even if they don’t send the money, they make a psychological commitment. It’s a growth of that commitment that has overthrown seat after seat in the House & Senate. The rationalist dismissed it – it’s not written in terms of rationalistic debate.”
source: Conway, Flo, and Siegelman, Jim. Holy Terror, The Fundamentalist War on America’s Freedoms in Religion, Politics and Our Private Lives. 1st. USA: Doubleday, 1982. Print.

How come we use fundy’s perception of bible for law in our politic, family, even private life around modern society. It’s the same as an emotional control, no free idea, seems like a monopolistic of one concept. Religion’s law is based on old society method on setting up its law: shame is the measure used to gain conformity, the shame you feel is what you put for the measure of consequences for other people. And that was how its law was written. Different than modern society’s law, that was built by rational thinking, a reasoning, it raises questions and disagreements, but the purpose is a fair decision for all of the party.