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Related: About this forumFundamentalism 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 its not a good look, theyre quietly putting it away and pretending in never happened. Its like the Macarena, except hateful to women, gays, and science. Or thats the argument being offered by Daniel DAddario 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 arent necessarily aligned with the Christian right) mainstream celebrityand he just got shitcanned. (Already, youre 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. DAddario 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 theyre 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 arent 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. Lets just count the infractions against basic human decency in this comment:
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/07/fundamentalism-goes-the-way-of-the-macarena/
DCKit
(18,541 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)the active duty military. It's not that am against religion. I'm not but I believe in separation of church and state.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)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.