Sunday, August 1, 2010

What are some of the criticisms of the modern world made by Christians and Muslim fundamentalists?

Christian and Muslim fundamentalism share common characteristics by virtue of a shared orientation toward religion and belief system. Fundamentalism is a religious orientation highlighting a religious system's fixed, fundamental beliefs. Fundamentalism arises historically as a response to religious liberalism and to increasing modernity (which includes a separation of church and state and the rise and dissemination of secular ideals). A key criticism of modern society made by fundamentalism is that modern society has degraded from a state of higher ethical behavior and higher morality to lower morality and a relative loss of ethics. Fundamentalist arguments usually posit a period of time before modernity in which people/society were more morally upright than they are currently. In addition, fundamentalism argues that modern society has moved away from living by fundamental truths. One consequence of this moving away from fundamental truths may be that individuals in modern society have less chance of acquiring a favorable afterlife than those who lived in pre-modern times. 

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