Word: fundamentalistism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electoral majority that Republicans enjoyed in the last three presidential races rests on an unstable alliance between two antagonistic groups. The first, the fundamentalist Right, is a vocal minority that gets much recognition, but has little substantive power. The second is a group I call MBA Republicans--young, educated, economically conservative voters who are uncomfortable with the New Right's social agenda...
This need not be the case and is no doubt attributable to the co-optation of the anti-abortion position by a fundamentalist fringe. Their wellintentioned arguments--couched in terms of Jesus and the Bible--do more harm than good when it comes to persuading Americans why abortion is the unjust policy, which it really is. As the prominent social theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno argued, even the best-intentioned reformer who uses anachronistic arguments--and the fundamentalist language is surely anachronistic and non-persuasive for most Americans--"strengthens the very power of the established order he is trying...
...enough simply to stress the moral objections to abortion or to call for its end, a lesson which the knownothing, think-nothing, care-nothing fundamentalist opponents of abortion have failed to learn. For opponents to make a viable case against abortion, we must also address the larger social problems which are leading women to seek this lamentable option in the first place. If abortion can be termed an evil--indeed a "necessary evil" by its supporters--it is time to make it an unnecessary...
Theologically, the church teaches the infallibility of the Bible. Yet its approach is more evangelical than Fundamentalist. The church's eight elders do not generally take positions on controversial issues like liberation theology or school prayer. On what is perhaps the most controversial of all current moral issues, they ruled abortion out as a birth-control method but declared that it may be necessary "in exceptional cases...
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, leader of the fundamentalist Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan, was named the potential Prime Minister, while Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, leader of the moderate Afghan National Liberation Front, would be President. Five other rebel leaders also received Cabinet assignments...