Christian Fundamentalsists Should Be Written In The Bible

For the clear majority, the term fundamentalism brings images of hostage crises, hijacking, and suicide bombers, but these images only present part of the picture. People in the west associate fundamentalism with Islam, which is a mistaken belief, as fundamentalism is prevalent in all religions. Every belief system in the world has believers who use their faith to guide their daily lives and views. Fundamentalists “insist on strict conformity to holy writ and to a moral code ostensibly based on it” (Munson, pg. 367, 2010). Therefore, the essence of fundamentalist belief is doctrinal conformity, of not only oneself, but the conformity of the rest of society too. These fundamentalists believe that their religion is beyond any form of criticism,

To them the bible is true and should be followed. What is written in the Bible should not be seen as figurative, or that it is filled with mistakes, but that it should be followed with commitment. The writings of Henry Munson state that “modern Christian fundamentalism emerged as a revolt against the tendency to rationalize and demythologize the Protestant Christianity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries” (Munson, pg. 360, 2010). This was in opposition to liberal Protestants who tried to “water down the basic tenets of Christianity” (Munson, pg. 360, 2010). Fundamentalists believed that the Bible should be followed without question, that there were no errors found in the word of God, and that followers should instead live their lives according to the strict moral code set forth by God. This is seen through their beliefs that Christians can only be “saved from eternal damnation by accepting Jesus Christ as one’s savior, and to spread the good news of Christ’s death and resurrection for the sake of humanity” (Munson, pg. 360, 2010). This total belief in the Bible has been seen by many as religious bigotry, as Christian fundamentalists have taken more than a religious standpoint, but a political one as well, on issues such as sex education, gay rights, and

Jews have been waiting and prying for the coming of the Messiah who would bring the Jews back to the land of Israel and deliver them from their gentile oppressors. Instead of waiting for this to occur, Zionists argued that Jews should not wait for this to occur, but instead, take it upon themselves to return to the land. In traditional Judaism, “the return to the Land of Israel was inseparable from the messianic redemption of the people of Israel” (Munson, pg. 361, 2010). If the Zionists acted on their beliefs then Jews would have “created a state that defied God’s will and would postpone the real redemption and the real ingathering of the exiles” (Munson, pg. 361, 2010). Zionists clearly had differing views from Orthodox Jews. They did not want to have strict conformity to Jewish religious laws, and fundamentalist Jews felt