George Walsh on Protestant Fundamentalism
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The Origins of Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism was not in its origins a redneck phenomenon. It's therefore altogether wrong to regard it as something which is illiterate in its origins. Its tendencies were and are anti-reason and regressive, but they were deliberately intended as such by men who were reasonably conversant with the main intellectual tendencies of the day. When these three streams began to coalesce their forces in North America, one united movement emerged - this was fundamentalism as we know it.
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