Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birth control are less vocal than in the past, but the late Theodore Roosevelt's protest against "race suicide" is well known. Many churchmen are outspoken against the movement, as, for instance, Archbishops Mundelein of Chicago and Hayes of New York, Dr. John Roach Straton and other Catholic and Fundamentalist leaders. Justice John Ford of New York, John S. Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield of New York and Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen of Chicago are other leading opponents...
...fundamentalist movement is not new," The Very Reverend Edmund S. Rousmaniere '83, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The present outbreak in all denominations of Protestant churches is merely an indication on the surface of a battle which has been waged for centuries...
...Rousmaniere is in perfect agreement with the Modern Churchmen's Union, the organ of the liberal Episcopal group. "We can no longer hold a conception of God which reigned at the time the creeds were formulated," he said. "We have advanced to what we call a deeper conception." The fundamentalist insists on belief in facts about God; the liberal holds that belief in the idea of God is all important...
...absurdity of any such alignment of differences is that the Fundamentalists are not even fair to themselves. The strength of the Fundamentalist appeal, like the appeal of the Roman Catholic Church, is in assertion and not in argument. The Fundamentalist triumphs by simply stating his simple faith. That is enough. But when the Fundamentalist begins to argue, he denies his faith, for his faith is either self-evident or it is not evident at all. No man was ever argued into being a Fundamentalist...
...curiously (and unfortunately for his spiritual health), the Fundamentalist is the first to rush into argument. He is the aggressor because he feels, with considerable justification, that the Modernist should get out of the old church; but he can only be ousted by being haled before an ecclesiastical court...