Word: fundamentalistism
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Carter's courting of the Jewish vote should bring a cry for equal time from the Catholics of America-his fundamentalist, evangelical "born again" Christianity is as foreign to us as it is to the Jews...
...special issues that seem to concern Jews is Carter's evangelical Southern Baptist faith (see RELIGION). In a recent letter to Reform Jewish leaders across the nation, Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, President of the American Union of Hebrew Congregations, recalled that "historically, anti-Semitism had its roots in fundamentalist religion." But he immediately added that it "is unjust and paradoxical for religious Jews to look askance at a man because he is deeply religious...
...terms evangelical and fundamentalist are sometimes used interchangeably, but they have different connotations. Evangelicalism derives from Martin Luther's emphasis on the gospels and salvation through faith. Fundamentalism as a movement emerged shortly after 1900 and put renewed stress on miraculous aspects of the life of Christ. The groups may overlap since both fundamentalists and evangelicals emphasize the authority of the Bible rather than the church, but fundamentalists tend to be more conservative, both theologically and politically...
Avis Hill is lots more interesting. He's preacher, not a pastor or reverend, of some fundamentalist church up in Cabin Creek, and one of the leaders of a group that tried to remove English books from the Kanawha County schools a year ago. The textbooks included short stories by James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, other radicals. One of the formative experiences of my life was seeing Avis Hill lead a group of women down a street in Charleston to the building that houses the school board, where they built a pyre of the godless books. They were singing...
Died. Gerald L.K. Smith, 78, self-styled rabble-rouser and proudly bigoted founder of the extreme right-wing Christian Nationalist Crusade; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. A fundamentalist preacher, Smith left his pulpit to work for Louisiana Governor Huey Long, crossing the country to set up Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. After Long's death in 1935, Smith turned far right. In his virulent magazine The Cross and The Flag, he heaped invective on Jews, blacks, Catholics, Communists and labor unions, and campaigned to drive "Franklin D. Jewsevelt" out of the White House...