Word: fundamentalistism
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...Although the Mormon church has banned polygamy since 1890, some fundamentalist heretics practice it in defiance of church and state. Last week, Arizona authorities were trying hard to catch one of them. The fugitive: George Merlin Dutson, excommunicated middle-aged Mormon...
Kenneth Spicer Wherry liked to call himself a "political fundamentalist." He could reduce the shadings of any political controversy into a black & white conflict between free enterprise and socialism, or economy and waste. With stubborn affability, he spent nine years in the Senate defending his own simplified brand of Midwestern Republicanism against Democrats and internationalist Republicans...
...life of Charles Francis Potter stands for religious liberalism carried about as far as it can go-if not farther. It also stands for a small but significant segment of U.S. religious history. Raised as a Fundamentalist and proceeding from the Baptist ministry through Unitarianism and Universalism to the founding of his own "new religion" of Humanism, Dr. Potter has managed to keep himself in & out of hot water and public print for a generation...
Badgering Bryan. The high point of Potter's career as a Unitarian was his series of five debates in 1923-24 with Fundamentalist Dr. John Roach Straton of New York City's Calvary Baptist Church. The subjects-the infallibility of the Bible, evolution, the Virgin Birth, the divinity and second coming of Christ- were, says Potter, "part of a crisis in theology." Police and firemen had to be called out to handle the crowds, and the ding-dong battle made Potter, at West Side Unitarian Church, one of Manhattan's best-known preachers...
...Dayton, Tenn. in 1925. As part of the team of big names and intellectuals who defended Schoolteacher Scopes and the theory of evolution, Dr. Potter and his wife lived at the "Monkey House," as defense headquarters was called. One of his jobs: advising Lawyer Clarence Darrow how to badger Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan with Biblical quiddities, such as how the Garden of Eden's serpent got around before God condemned him to wriggling on his belly...