Issues In Protestant Fundamentalism

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Roland Ogunlade ANTH 299 Prof.Toth F 9/26/2009 First Essay Issues in Protestant Fundamentalism and Why Fundamentalists Believe the Way They do about These Issues Fundamentalism is popularly describe as adherence to Christian doctrines base on interpretation of bible.(living according to Gods plan) In 19th and 20th century Tran denominational protestant movement that opposed the accommodation of Christian doctrine to modern scientific theory and Philosophy .However, fundamentalism will be used here as political and social movement .A lot of Christian reject the intolerance and social politics of groups often affiliated with religious right. Fundamentalism is a reaction against modernism; it also adopted all kinds of new beliefs and practices. Most of these churches have been infiltrated by non-Christian modern theology. In the 18th century the Enlightenment and Evangelical revivals would moderate each other. By the 1870's until today, fundamentalist Protestantism would be at war with both modern science and personal liberty. (Modernism) Today fundamentalists make up about 20 percent of the American population. Most are law-abiding citizens but about one-fourth (5% of the population) belong to assorted fringe churches and operate a kind of low-level terrorism such as attacks on abortion clinics, racism and anti-Semitism, the militia movements, etc. They are obsessed with conspiracy theories claiming Jews, Freemasons, Satan, etc. control America and an apocalypse due any day They also believe in "six-day" Creationism, the doctrine that the universe was created only a few thousand years ago, rather than the billions claimed by modern science, and that God created man and woman and all the species outright, rather than by a process of evolution. Also included is the belief that only King James Version Bible of 1611 is the only
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