Demons From An Ancient World

Western Fundamentalism

The noun fundamentalism has become a pejorative term.  In the West it has connotations of ignorant, uneducated, and of ancient and extreme beliefs, along with simplistic, superficial, and thoughtless lifestyles. "Fundamentalism" does not have a direct opposite.  If one were to complete the sentence, "I am not a fundamentalist, I am a(n) xxxxx" no noun springs to mind.  Maybe nouns such as "liberal" or "progressive", or adjectives such as "openminded" or "enlightened" or "sophisticated" or "educated" would go part of the way.  Fundamentalism, for good or ill, has now become inextricably linked to backwardness and primitive ignorance.

In Western Christian circles "fundamentalism" was a term coined by authentic Christians around the nineteen thirties.  It was a movement to identify the fundamental doctrines and teachings of the Bible in the face of widespread and rapid defalcation away from the true faith.   However, because the culture was quickly shape-shifting into Unbelief, the term quickly became one of contempt.  In the wonderfully enlightened scientific age, who would believe in ex-nihilo creation by God any longer, since Science "proved" all reality came into existence by chance.  And so it rolled.

Fundamentalism came to mean ancient obscurantist uneducated ignorance.  It would have to be this way since an even more primitive and ancient Paganism was making a comeback.  This comeback needed a cloak.  By claiming sophistication and modernity, it could disguise the primitive ignorance in which it trades.  And so it has turned out that svelte, modern, enlightened Unbelief has returned to practices long associated with the most bloody, ignorant, and barbaric forms of ancient Paganism.

 The biggest cause of human death by far in the West is abortion: the ancient Ammonite deity, Molech (to whom children were sacrificed) has thus made a massive, spectacular comeback over the last fifty years--modernised and secularised, of course.  But to the defenceless and innocent child sacrificed upon the altars of narcissism it is "same difference" and "same old, same old".

Thus, it turns out that the modern world is profoundly fundamentalist after all.  The fundamentals of Unbelief lead to death, slavery and the demonic; the fundamentals of Jesus Christ lead to life, joy, peace, and the Blessed Isles.

The challenge is to all: choose you this day what kind of fundamentalist you want to be.