By: Jesus Jihad: Could There Be a Christian Bin Laden? « Leaving Fundamentalism
[...] see themselves as a persecuted minority. I often discuss with Adam Laats, who takes a much more generous attitude to the Christian Right than me, the way fundamentalist America views itself as...
View ArticleBy: Literary Fundamentalism: Specific Belief from Dappled Things « I Love You...
[...] of Fundamentalist America from the outside, Ference’s article raises another vital point. Too many people who don’t understand Fundamentalist America are quick to dismiss fundamentalism as...
View ArticleBy: Leftist Bias in the Academy? « I Love You but You're Going to Hell
[...] we have argued elsewhere, this bias is often wrapped in a near-total ignorance about life in Fundamentalist America. One [...]
View ArticleBy: Betty Braniac
Teaching myth (Biblical stories) as fact is indeed harmful to those children. And your view of science as authority, on par with scriptural authority, is naiive. The scientific method is open to, and...
View ArticleBy: Adam Laats
@Betty, I don't want to be patronizing, but I DO want to challenge or even provoke people who share my own (former) prejudices about conservative Christians in 20th- and 21st-century America. I don't...
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By: Betty Braniac
I am afraid you are quite mistaken as far as authority. Scriptural authority is top-down; scientific ‘authority’ is bottom up, built from observation, experimentation, prediction. Repeatable, testable....
View ArticleBy: Educational Psychology vs. the Christian Right « Leaving Fundamentalism
[...] David Berliner’s is the most excoriating. Not for Berliner the tolerance of historians like Adam Laats. He sees the Christian Right as a malign force, and shows some clear examples why. In short:...
View ArticleBy: Required Reading: The Big Tent of Creationism « I Love You but You're...
[...] still remember my first introduction to the world of creation science. I was a staunch outsider, having had little interaction with creationism until my mid-30s. In graduate school, reading Ron...
View ArticleBy: Required Reading: Who’s Afraid of Evolution? « I Love You but You're...
[...] I started this blog when I discovered many of my secular, liberal friends and family shared my ignorance about the complexities of life in Fundamentalist America. One academic acquaintance once...
View ArticleBy: Cross-Dressing for Kindergartners: A Fundamentalist Cause? « I Love You...
[...] those of us outsiders who are trying to understand what we’re calling Fundamentalist America, the results of this [...]
View ArticleBy: Required Reading: Learning to Hear Why Evangelical Christians Hear God |...
[...] Adam Laats’s testimonial for his creation of I love you but you’re going to hell was one of the most refreshing perspectives I’ve read in a long time. Laats’ roots in Boston—having, what those...
View ArticleBy: CSCOPE Blues: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Curriculum...
[...] for liberals like me and the TFN crew, animosity against CSCOPE is about more than just one set of classroom lessons. [...]
View ArticleBy: Pro-family Christian
I am a fully exclusivist [but not Fundamentalist] Christian from the UK who believes it was NOT wrong for Protestant missionaries to enter cultures with false (not “different”- FALSE) religious beliefs...
View ArticleBy: Creation? Evolution? Both? Neither? | I Love You but You're Going to Hell
[…] course, Hill is not just a neutral observer. As do I, Hill hopes to find a middle ground, and his surveys find one. Evangelical Christians, Hill […]
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