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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Thu Sep 22 16:44:18 2011, in response to Re: Ecclesiastes Re: Execution Carried Out, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Sep 22 11:56:41 2011. Americans imported biblical literalism from Europe.No, the particular variety of naïve biblical literalism happened after large-scale migration from Europe to America had ceased. The historical context was the conflict between a posteriori evidence of the world around us and some traditional positions of Protestant Christianity. The Protestant mainstream adapted to reality, but there arose a movement from the 1920s onward to cling to an exaggerated version of Protestant traditions and reject reality when it conflicts with them. This did originate in America, and it was in fact very slow in crossing the Atlantic. This history is particularly obvious in publications. The Evangelical/Fundamentalist/reality-rejecting articles are a 20th-century American phenomenon. There is of course a good reason for this geographical split: England had and still has a state church whose theological position basically comes down to woolly liberalism, social respectability, and not rocking the boat. |
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