Comments on: how organized to you need to be? https://oxgoad.ca/2010/09/26/how-organized-to-you-need-to-be/ fundamentalism by blunt instrument Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lou Martuneac https://oxgoad.ca/2010/09/26/how-organized-to-you-need-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-6054 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:29:07 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2010/09/26/how-organized-to-you-need-to-be/#comment-6054 “There is enough organization within the Fundamentalist movement today to qualify it as a movement in my opinion.”

Agreed. With the FBFI for example we are no less organized than that T4G/GC movements, which those who are shedding the “fundamentalist” label are gravitating toward and embracing its movement.

LM

]]> By: ox https://oxgoad.ca/2010/09/26/how-organized-to-you-need-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-6050 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:00:15 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2010/09/26/how-organized-to-you-need-to-be/#comment-6050 In reply to Keith.

What is the organizing principle? Well that will be the point of my second response to Dave which will hopefully appear within the next 36 hours. I do have other responsibilities!

My point in this article is that the term “organized” in the definition of “movement” doesn’t mean “that organized” and that fundamentalism today is “organized enough” so that it fits the definition.

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

]]> By: Keith https://oxgoad.ca/2010/09/26/how-organized-to-you-need-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-6049 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:03:53 +0000 http://oxgoad.ca/2010/09/26/how-organized-to-you-need-to-be/#comment-6049 Don, you’re right that a movement is definitely something different than an organization or an institution. If it weren’t, then there’d be no use for the term.

Nevertheless, there does need to be a coherent destination for the movement to move to. There needs to be a core “organizing principle” maybe we could call it.

Among those who wish to claim the title “fundamentalist” is there a core organizing principle?

For homeschoolers, it would be schooling at home (even with all of the conflicts about how to do that), for civil rights it was equal access to the privileges of citizenship (again with all of the conflicts). What do all those who want the name fundamentalist share?

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