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God's Country? - Walter Russell Mead | Foreign Affairs
Topic: Society 10:56 am EDT, Sep  3, 2006

Religion has always been a major force in U.S. politics, but the recent surge in the number and the power of evangelicals is recasting the country's political scene -- with dramatic implications for foreign policy. This should not be cause for panic.

As used here, the term "fundamentalist" involves three characteristics: a high view of biblical authority and inspiration; a strong determination to defend the historical Protestant faith against Roman Catholic and modernist, secular, and non-Christian influence; and the conviction that believers should separate themselves from the non-Christian world.

The difference between fundamentalists and evangelicals is not that fundamentalists are more emotional in their beliefs; it is that fundamentalists insist more fully on following their ideas to their logical conclusion.

Mead offers a reading list.

Consider:

"The test of a first rate mind is to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time." [1]

"It is the rare thinker who keeps two contradictory thoughts simultaneously in mind; yet this is precisely what is often needed to get at the truth." [2]

God's Country? - Walter Russell Mead | Foreign Affairs



 
 
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