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"Jason Spaceman" |
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21 Oct 2004 06:39:44 PM |
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In the News: Know Your Fundamentalists |
From the article:
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Know Your Fundamentalists
Are they: a) moral b) God-centered c) caring d) intolerant e) anti-intellectual
f) homophobic g) all of the above? Next: A look at the voting bloc that may
give George Bush another four years in the White House.
by Rob Weir - October 21, 2004
You see them at gay pride marches carrying signs trumpeting God's displeasure
with homosexuals. They are a staple at anti-choice rallies with their grisly
placards of aborted fetuses. They show up at local theaters to denounce films
like The Last Temptation of Christ or Hail Mary. They appear on the evening
news demanding that public schools teach "creationism" in science classes.
They are fundamentalist Christians.
Local filmmaker and scholar James Ault, Jr. spent three years studying a
fundamentalist congregation in Worcester and thinks it's time that humanists
get off their high horses and try to understand fundamentalists. It's hard to
refute Ault's point that fundamentalists are a large and potent force in
American social and political life.
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Read it at http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:86467
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Tink" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Know Your Fundamentalists |
22 Oct 2004 12:53:28 PM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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Know Your Fundamentalists
Are they: a) moral No
b) God-centered Yes
c) caring NO
d) intolerant Yes
e) anti-intellectual Yes
f) homophobic Yes
One might also add:
Anti-progress
Anti-science
Cowardly
and prejudiced.
g) all of the above? Next: A look at the voting bloc that may
give George Bush another four years in the White House.
by Rob Weir - October 21, 2004
You see them at gay pride marches carrying signs trumpeting God's displeasure
with homosexuals. They are a staple at anti-choice rallies with their grisly
placards of aborted fetuses. They show up at local theaters to denounce films
like The Last Temptation of Christ or Hail Mary. They appear on the evening
news demanding that public schools teach "creationism" in science classes.
They are fundamentalist Christians.
Local filmmaker and scholar James Ault, Jr. spent three years studying a
fundamentalist congregation in Worcester and thinks it's time that humanists
get off their high horses and try to understand fundamentalists. It's hard to
refute Ault's point that fundamentalists are a large and potent force in
American social and political life.
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Read it at http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:86467
J. Spaceman
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away... It really pisses him off.
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