The Dismal Intelliectual Regress In American Religion

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There is no point in mincing words: The stunning advance of evangelicalism maked a dismal intelliectual regress in American religion. A alpse into crude superstition and magical thinking, credulous vulnerability to charlatans, a dangerous weakness for apocalyptic prophesy, and blatant denial of scientific reality, resurgent conservative Protestantism entailed a widespread surrender of believers' critical faculties.

 

I took this from an article entitled, "The Aquarians and the Evangelicals: How left-wing hippies and right-wing fundementalists created a libertarian America." The quote was talking about the rise of Fundies during the 1970s.