Word: fundamentalistism
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...Republicans could make an issue out of reverse-twist bigotry, Democrats could make an issue out of a fresh wave of anti-Catholicism from Protestant fundamentalist areas...
...RAMSEY POLLARD, 57, current president of the Southern Baptist Convention, recently made news for his outspoken stand against a Roman Catholic President. A graduate of Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fundamentalist Pollard is minister of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn. (membership: 9,000). He feels that though integration problems cannot be "solved overnight, every man ought to treat his fellow man with dignity and love...
...elected in 1951 and 1952. He is a member of the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance, vetoes dancing but smokes cigars. When Negroes come to his church, he lets them stay but on occasion labels their "kneel-ins" provocative and "an exhibition of egotism." A fundamentalist and evangelist who complains that the modern church microphone is "a gadget of the devil, it's bugging me," Grey insists that "spineless and convictionless preaching is contaminating the land" and that Baptists must beware of becoming "ritualistic, formal, cold and dead, like so many other decadent denominations." He characterizes Southern...
...taught by the Bible." Attorney for the prosecution: William Jennings ("The Great Commoner") Bryan, the most famous political orator of his generation, three times (1896, 1900 and 1908) the Democratic nominee for President, and in private life a man who had fanatically kept the faith of a fundamentalist. Counsel for the defense: Clarence Seward Darrow, the most famous trial lawyer of his generation, a showcase liberal who had often made public profession of agnosticism...
Worse still is the distortion of what happened at the trial. The script wildly and unjustly caricatures the fundamentalists as vicious and narrow-minded hypocrites, just as wildly and unwisely idealizes their opponents, as personified in Darrow. Actually, the fundamentalist position, even when carried to the extreme that Bryan struck when he denied that man is a mammal, is scarcely more absurd and profitless than the shallow scientism that the picture offers as a substitute for religious faith and experience...