Funny you took that as a negative automatically. There are plenty of religions that aren’t fundamentalist. The reason why people choose fundamentalist religion is heavily studied in psychology and sociology and PP is correct that it is largely influenced by fear and acts out in ways that are against any sort of change or uncertainty.
There's a difference between a belief in a higher power and scriptural literalism. The latter--that rigid, inflexible certainty that every word in the Bible is correct and directly from God--is what I'm talking about. It leads people to gaslight themselves, writing off observable reality as Satan's tricks. It's Flat Earther stuff.
Basically, people consider "fundamentalist" religions to include those who live by the Bible's standards.
Technically Fundamentalism is a branch of Christianity that developed from The Fundamentals published in the early 20th century. It is a reaction to the modernism they saw in society. Like so many Christians Fundamentalists declare they have the One True Christianity utterly based on the Bible.
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u/BcILoveHer11 Aug 10 '21
Funny you took that as a negative automatically. There are plenty of religions that aren’t fundamentalist. The reason why people choose fundamentalist religion is heavily studied in psychology and sociology and PP is correct that it is largely influenced by fear and acts out in ways that are against any sort of change or uncertainty.
Doesn’t mean “anti-religious”