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How To Be Religious (II): Fundamentalism

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Christman, P. (2022). How To Be Religious (II): Fundamentalism. In Christman, P. How to Be Normal. Belt Publishing, pp. 137-166

the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text

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This is, bluntly, eisegesis—it is reading-in, placing a message into the text that simply isn’t there with an overlay of mysticism to give you plausible deniability about what you’re doing.

—p.149 by Phil Christman
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This is, bluntly, eisegesis—it is reading-in, placing a message into the text that simply isn’t there with an overlay of mysticism to give you plausible deniability about what you’re doing.

—p.149 by Phil Christman
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11 months, 4 weeks ago

when a word or phrase has multiple meanings (from Greek)

152

Again, the polysemy of language gives rise to conspiracy theories

—p.152 by Phil Christman
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Again, the polysemy of language gives rise to conspiracy theories

—p.152 by Phil Christman
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(noun) reliance on faith rather than reason in pursuit of religious truth

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Our contest was not one between intellect and irrational fideism. I had to work hard to win because he had arguments, however uneven in quality

—p.154 by Phil Christman
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Our contest was not one between intellect and irrational fideism. I had to work hard to win because he had arguments, however uneven in quality

—p.154 by Phil Christman
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11 months, 4 weeks ago