tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331841.post111773125531456627..comments2023-12-28T01:28:36.790-08:00Comments on Murky Thoughts: Mysticism & predicting the politics of religious folkMThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02341704109256270557noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331841.post-1117820719850723202005-06-03T10:45:00.000-07:002005-06-03T10:45:00.000-07:00Fundamentalism is new? What about the Elmer-Gantry...Fundamentalism is new? What about the Elmer-Gantry type revivalists, 1492 Spain, the Crusades, etc?MThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02341704109256270557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331841.post-1117819690164933282005-06-03T10:28:00.000-07:002005-06-03T10:28:00.000-07:00No, because fundamentalism is a modern phenomenom....No, because fundamentalism is a modern phenomenom. <BR/><BR/>The 9/11 hijackers used box cutters, not daggers. Fundamentalism mixes the old and new, with a veneer of sentimentalism.t.s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331841.post-1117813746057010432005-06-03T08:49:00.000-07:002005-06-03T08:49:00.000-07:00I think it's reasonable to point to modernity, but...I think it's reasonable to point to modernity, but note that fundamentalists aren't exactly resistant to all its manifestations. e.g. They don't protest airlines, subway travel and telecommunications (i.e. to the extent Janet Jackson's breast isn't broadcasting).MThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02341704109256270557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331841.post-1117778099753404122005-06-02T22:54:00.000-07:002005-06-02T22:54:00.000-07:00I think it has to do with modernity. Fundamentali...I think it has to do with modernity. Fundamentalists, and those of their ilk, want things to be the way they were before modernity and social change and technology started upsetting things. I'm sure someone, somewhere, has said this better than me, but I don't know who or where. (And that LA Times article doesn't work that much for me, the more I think about it. Although there's something to the idea that social conservatives will accept traditional rules just because they are the traditional rule, whether or not they seem to make sense.) And now I've gone on too long and am loosing my thread, if there was one.t.s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02474050291507723178noreply@blogger.com