Word: fundamentalistism
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Popularize religious discussion among members of the University. It will be followed by a similar meeting on November 18 on "Science and Religion." Dr. John Roach Stratton, a leading fundamentalist, will exchange opinions with Professor K. F. Mather of the Geology Department, a noted modernist, at this controversy...
...invite attention to another aspect of our political life and to some widespread misconceptions relating to it namely, the party system. Nowhere does the fundamentalist character of our political creed disclose itself more plainly than here. A political party is commonly defined as a large group of men and women who profess allegiance to common principles and who think alike on public questions. We are asked to believe, in fact, that voters choose a political party as the outcome of their own thought and reflection. In reality this is very seldom the case. Far more often the voter's allegiance...
...Hence our laws insist that the Constitution be studied in our schools and colleges with due regard for the sanctity of the text and with no taint of higher criticism, but rather in all its textual literalness--that is to say, in the same uncritical spirit that characterizes the fundamentalist approach to the first chapter of Genesis...
...asked to believe that public opinion rules the Unitd States. It is the ultimate sovereign, the supreme law of the land. This is proposition number three in our fundamentalist decalogue. Government by public opinion is a phrase that slips easily from the tongue and has been so often repeated that most people believe it to be true. Yet public opinion, when you try to define it, proves to be a very elusive thing. What passes on public opinion, in perhaps the majority of cases, is simply the outcome of propegrade and counter-propaganda working the upon the traditions, prejudices, aversions...
...David Scott Kennedy, ruthless editor of The Presbyterian, "best known fighting fundamentalist journal," has just retired, at 70. Thereby he gives spiritual relief to many a good Presbyterian, especially to the pacific commission of 15 of the Presbyterian general assembly, whom Dr. Kennedy has viciously flayed for holding doctrines less stern than...