"thereby undermining the infallible authority attributed to the scriptures"

What a great world this would be if abated of all religions and their cowardly superstitions.

A great world where no child has her mind warped by those superstitious cowards and their idiotic religions and their lies and fabrications. Free from their hollow, meaningless words and spoken by mindless drones. Free from their marketing buzzwords such as "faith".

A great world where every child grows up having never heard any ridiculous fairy-tale about some idiotic God in the sky-ceiling above, God that was invented by monkeys, after they killed the dinosaur's god.








http://huumanists.org/publications/journal/modernist-fundamentalist-controversy-and-its-impact-liberal-religion

UU Humanist Association

The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy and its Impact on Liberal Religion

By: Daniel Ross Chandler

Year: 1999

Volumn: 33

Number: 1

I.

The theological controversy which developed following World War I furnishes striking parallels to the two disruptions occasioned nearly a century earlier when traditional Congregational churches were challenged by rationally-disciplined Unitarianism, and when the emergent Unitarian movement grew disquieted with the "heretical" New England Transcendentalists. Between 1920 and 1930, religious orthodoxy was challenged when dogmas and doctrines considered as eternal, unchanging truth were questioned when scholars applied scientific investigation and higher criticism to examination of the Bible. "Modernists" who employed scholarly methods to interpret sacred scriptures and compare the world religions, seemingly discounted supernatural sources of the Christian faith and disparaged literal interpretations of Biblical passages. An evolutionary hypothesis explaining human origins and development apparently contradicted the Biblical description of creation, thereby undermining the infallible authority attributed to the scriptures:

The centuries-old conflict between science and religion had been sharpened in the nineteenth century by the publication of two books by Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871). During the final quarter of the century one of the favorite topics of discussion in the journals, on lecture platforms, in Chatauqua tents, and in the pulpit was the question of the relation between religion and science—could a reconciliation between the two be effected, or were they, as some affirmed, irreconcilably opposed in a battle to the death?

While some fundamentalists rejected, repudiated and renounced scientific investigation and Biblical criticism, demanding a literal interpretation of scripture, some modernists attempted a reconciliation between the new knowledge and the old faith by adapting Christian teachings and principles to rapidly changing world-views.



- posted by Kerry Burgess 3:07 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 09/06/2019