... abandoning religion altogether.# The older generation saw their precious Victorian values slipping away. With no other solution in sight, they adopted the strict and quite over-bearing doctrine of fundamentalism. The central theme of their new movement was the literal interpretation of the Bible and, accompanying the movement, were ideals of temperance, gentility, and sexual repression.# With a large following, Fundamentalists easily ... interpretations that it was impossible for anyone to really know what the true understanding was. Therefore, the theory of Creation as stated in the Bi...

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... was not accepted until much after his death, when science started to become more accepted.3 The religious evolutionist must not read the Bible as Gods word but rather as man's interpretation of God's word. A realization that God only wants us to be good people and for us to know that he loves every single one of us is the true meaning ... with even more than current beliefs. Religion is different for every person; finding God is an individual and spiritual experience that needs not be tainted by things like the Bible, strict church interpretations, and the dilution of society into relig...

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... of the early 1920s, believers in old-fashioned values were caught up in a wave of religious revival. Preachers damned modern scientific rationalism in all of its semblances and advocated a strict and literal interpretation of the Bible as the only source of truth. Modernists and traditionalists had very different opinions and a confrontation appeared imminent. Fundamentalists were particularly annoyed that public schools were teaching ... ...

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