Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessarily a good thing. It was not a good thing when the Hindu I read about this spring killed his son as a religious sacrifice. It is not a good thing that religious pressure has made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee, because it conflicts with fundamentalist beliefs...
...cannot sit idly by while Professor Hromadka, champion of the Communist cause, is received into Christian fellowship and honored as a great Christian leader," cried Fundamentalist Minister Carl McIntire, president of the violently antiCommunist, anti-ecumenical and minor-league International Council of Christian Churches...
...Such a law, still on the books in Tennessee, brought the late great trial lawyer Clarence Darrow and Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan into conflict in 1925's famed "Monkey Trial." Science Teacher John Thomas Scopes was found guilty, assessed a $100 fine...
Another of the American entrepreneurs successfully combines fundamentalist religion and salesmanship. Kash ("My pappy called me that so he'd always have some of it around") Day Amburgay became a minister of the Bible Church of God in 1942 "and started selling salvation." Salvation, it seems, did not bring high enough returns so he started on Bibles and "by 1947 he was netting $10,000 a year on Bibles--sold on the installment plans." Today, it is up over $75,000. Kash dabbles also in a mortgaging scheme which "saves him up to 90 per cent on current taxes...
...Texas phenomenon perhaps related to a fundamentalist reading of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed...