2007-04-02 05:37:52 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Main Entry: fun·da·men·tal·ism
Function: noun
1 a often capitalized : a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching b : the beliefs of this movement c : adherence to such beliefs
2 : a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles
- fun·da·men·tal·ist
- fundamentalist or fun·da·men·tal·is·tic / adjective
2007-04-02 05:54:53 · update #1
The fact that we have one running our country, and endangering us all with his hawkish attitudes. Really is scary when he says god told him to bomb Iraq.... wonder why god didn't tell him as well that there were no weapons of mass destruction.... Don't know how the guy sleeps at night... "24" that runs on Monday nights IS the Bush administration.... and, ya gotta wonder about a guy, raised in Maine who puts on a southern accent to get the christian vote.............
2007-04-02 05:44:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Less about fundamentalists and more about fundamentalism and its contradictions... like I can't find the quote in the Bible that says all theology must be directly and only from the scriptures, that is, that Sacred Tradition and the teaching of the apostles are no good (even though the first community thought so... Acts 2). Besides that, I can't find the quote in the bible that says one must only interpret the scriptures from within the scriptures. Other than that, I dislike "the push," ie the way they slowly sneak up on you will talking to you in order to intimidate you and get you to give in to their argument.
Other than that they're okay.
2007-04-02 05:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean Christian fundamentalists or the religious right? Because lots of people consider the two the same and they are not. A Christian fundamentalist is one who follows the original teachings of the Bible, not the 17th century theologians that interpreted it. A member of the religious-right uses God as a tool to achieve political gain, and in my mind that is just as bad as using God's name in vain or having other God's before him. The Bible may be a republican book (as John Adams said), but politics is worldly and temporal, something we should not keep our eyes focuses on.
No matter laws the government passes, no matter what they say is moral or just, God is still a sovereign Judge with an independent Law. The laws of this world will have no impact on his Laws. That is why, more and more, I don't care what immorality the government permits. Let people dig their own grave. Let the dead bury their own dead.
2007-04-02 05:45:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mostly it's their lack of compassion for anyone except who they deem to be the "right" people, i.e. other fundamentalists. They seem to take an unseemly amount of pleasure in their belief that anyone who is not a member of their club is going to suffer for all eternity.
You wouldn't want to watch an animal writhe in agony by the side of the road, would you? Of course not. So why take such pleasure in what you think is going to be someone else's eternal torment?
2007-04-02 05:41:53 · answer #4 · answered by Wild About Harry 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hate anything that creates an "us and them." Fundies have the biggest "us and them" mentality on the planet.
Do you know what a "faction" is? That's a little (in some cases not so little) group that come up with good sounding reasons to be against the whole world. They make people think it makes sense. Paranoia. Sound familiar?
2007-04-02 05:44:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The fact that they claim to be Christian and do no behave at all the way, most normal Christians do but still get all the attention and cause tension for the real Christians
2007-04-02 05:58:52 · answer #6 · answered by I'm so cool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That they push their agenda on others. Given how many act, I wonder if they have actually read the new testament.
Let's see..they are against both birth control and abortion, but then they want funding to be taken away from not only children, but disabled adults?
2007-04-02 05:46:02 · answer #7 · answered by CarbonDated 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The narrowmindedness that they are 100% right all of the time when most of them have never even examined what they are being told to believe, much less than something they condemn.
2007-04-02 07:37:05 · answer #8 · answered by awayforabit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stubborness, the bigotry, the hatred, the intolerance of others, and the holier art thou I'm morally superior to you attitude.
2007-04-02 06:42:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
unforgiving Christian is a contradiction! and fun`da`mental Muslims are just as bad if they stone an adulterous woman or other sinners, if they have not sinned then they have the right to do so but my GOD says we all fall short of the glory and are sinners !
2007-04-02 05:40:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋