An adherent of a religion (especially Protestant Christianity but can also be Catholicism, Mormonism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or other faith), characterized by a rigid orthodoxy, a belief in absolute inerrancy and infallibility of a religion's scripture, founder, or primitive organization, a reactionary stance in social and political matters as well as religious, and usually rejection of modern scholarship and scientific question of relgious myth and doctrine: also fundamentalism.
Fundamentalists dominate newer, smaller and more radical Christian denominations, especially Pentecostal and independent Baptist, but have had limited success in mainline Protestant bodies, except for the Southern Baptist Convention.
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A non-immigrant Black person who descended from enslaved person in America. Foundational Black Americans usually have lineages to Africa and Black indigenous people of North America.
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Get the Sunday Funday mug.1) A person who exploits religion for political purposes. 2)A politician who uses religion solely as a means to further their political career.
Americas founding fathers feared that a political fundamentalist would someday come along who would use religion as a means to undermine democracy in an attempt to establish a theocracy in America.Prudently they established the doctrine that seperation of church and state must be upheld to preserve democracy.
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Derived from a contraction of the wordsFundamentalist and Muggle (definition 1)
Derived from a contraction of the wordsFundamentalist and Muggle (definition 1)
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