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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue May 7, 2013, 11:15 AM May 2013

Fundamentalism Goes The Way of the Macarena

Cheesy American evangelical culture, it seems, was a trend that swept America but now that people are beginning to realize it’s not a good look, they’re quietly putting it away and pretending in never happened. It’s like the Macarena, except hateful to women, gays, and science. Or that’s the argument being offered by Daniel D’Addario in Salon, in a piece about how Tim Tebow might be the last openly fundamentalist (which is what he really means, since there are openly evangelical celebrities who aren’t necessarily aligned with the Christian right) mainstream celebrity—and he just got shitcanned. (Already, you’re seeing whining about this from fundies who believe white Christians are an oppressed minority.) Part of the problem with the “brand” appears to be, you know, the hate issue. D’Addario quotes pastor John S. Dickerson, who is quite whiny about it:

“The culture has turned the corner, specifically on the conflict between the LGBT movement, if you call it a movement, and the evangelical movement, if you call it a movement. Evangelicals have invited this, but they’re being typecast. The cultural view of the new America is that the biblical view of homosexual sex is backward, the stuff of cavemen or the Ku Klux Klan, ” Dickerson said. He noted that the recent ban on “reparative therapy” in California may sound a death knell for evangelicals’ influence.

Or perhaps its that fundamentalists seem wholly incapable of understanding how their weird, prudish bigotry sounds to people who aren’t immersed in their culture. For instance, in just this quote alone, you can tell that Dickerson is a first class asshole, even in you know nothing else about him. Let’s just count the infractions against basic human decency in this comment:

full article
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/07/fundamentalism-goes-the-way-of-the-macarena/

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Fundamentalism Goes The Way of the Macarena (Original Post) DonViejo May 2013 OP
God and Guns - not going anywhere. nt DCKit May 2013 #1
Well I won't believe it will die out until it finally is removed from the Military Academies and southernyankeebelle May 2013 #2
nonsense LiberalAndProud May 2013 #3
It undermines his point zipplewrath May 2013 #4
 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
2. Well I won't believe it will die out until it finally is removed from the Military Academies and
Tue May 7, 2013, 11:25 AM
May 2013

the active duty military. It's not that am against religion. I'm not but I believe in separation of church and state.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
4. It undermines his point
Tue May 7, 2013, 11:55 AM
May 2013

He undermines his own point by switching back and forth between fundamentalists and evangelicals. They aren't the same thing, although basically all fundamentalists are evangelicals. But not all evangelicals are fundamentalists. It may seem a bit pedantic, but really his point is about evangelicals trying to distinguish themselves from fundamentalists and create some separation, at least politically. The fundamentalists will always be around, but they may not be able to leverage their association with evangelicals as much.

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