Word: fundamentalistism
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Last year a new fundamentalist religious group called Seicho no le (House of Growth) collected 7 million signatures in an effort to remove the "economic reasons" clause cited by 99.7% of women who obtained abortions. The antiabortion effort, supported by Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, prompted more than 100 women's groups to a rare demonstration of organized political protest...
Just as the whole venture seemed on the verge of collapse, eight members of a Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one week symbolic fast (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...MUST HAVE felt good to be one of the folks who hackled Jerry Falwell when the fundamentalist preacher spoke at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum last Monday. For many liberal college students. Falwell embodies the worst of the New Right's arrogant dogmatism and political backwardness, and his appearance provided a golden opportunity to shout "the Moral Majority is neither" right in the face of the man who founded that New Right lobbying group and gave it its presumptuous name. Snickering and hissing at Falwell released pent-up anger at the Reagan Administration's attacks on gays, women, Blacks...
...most impressive aspects of the Tosches biography, and one of the most memorable moments on The Sun Years, is the depth of Lewis' fundamentalist fervor. Before the tapes roll on one take of Great Balls of Fire, Lewis can be heard locked in feverish theological debate with a somewhat astonished Sam Phillips. The intensity is scary and spellbinding, and leaves no doubt about with whom Jerry Lee believes he has cast his lot. "You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have...
Indeed, periodically seized by remorse over a misspent life, Lewis will still ruminate over making a stand for God. But the devil - the music, and the life that goes with it - always wins out. Shared or not, that fundamentalist faith gives Jerry Lee's music, even to a heathen, the unique power of sin. No smart talk or sidestepping for him. This is the devil's music, and Jerry Lee Lewis plays it with the aplomb of a peer. He may smell damnation himself, but that unholy gift of his has surely secured him a place in rock...