[lbo-talk] Protestant fundamentalism: pro-Israel & anti-UN before they existed

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think perhaps you're unintentionally confusing Fundamentalism and
Evangelicalism, Michael.  The former begins as you describe in the 20th
century; the latter dates from the 18th century and was socially
progressive through the 19th (e.g, abolitionism, labor organizing) and
into the 20th. --CGE

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Michael Pollak wrote:


> A couple of months ago, someone quoted a text saying that Protestant
> fundamentalism wasn't always on the right, that it had been on the
> left up until the Scopes trial.  This struck me as an interesting idea
> and I decided to check it out.  It turns not out in the end to be not
> exactly true.  Fundamentalism wasn't really born until WWI, and it was
> politically conservative from the beginning.  But I did stumble on a
> couple of things I found fascinating...