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Fundamentalism isn't the problem.
Like Yossarian in Catch 22, I'm exercised by the fact that people are trying to kill me. You may remember that Yossarian was flying bombers over Italy in 1944 and German gunners were trying to shoot his plane down. Yossarian and I are in a similar spot. You might well think we ought not to take it personally. My enemies are also out to get any civilian they can blow up throughout Europe, America, and other Western places. Anyone will do. Indeed, statistically speaking, their main success has been in blowing up luckless Muslims who get in their way. They are obviously a dumb and nasty lot, but how shall we describe them? President Bush calls them "terrorists" and has ...
- Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Church History Johnson, Dale Walden March 1, 2009 700+ words
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents...cultural textus receptus. Conventional wisdom argues that the liberal cultural...is violent, authoritarian fundamentalism, not the liberal tradition...
- Arrows up for Conventional Wisdom Watch. (column in Newsweek)
- Magazine article from: American Journalism Review Revah, Susan July 1, 1995 700+ words
...junkies across the country is the Conventional Wisdom Watch, a weekly appraisal of the...have pondered the meaning of the Conventional Wisdom Watch, never certain if it is meant...fact, the joke is on them. The Conventional Wisdom Watch is the brainchild of Jonathan...
- TODAY'S CONVENTIONAL WISDOM FAILS TO ANSWER MAJOR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record LEONARD SILK March 18, 1988 700+ words
The term ``the conventional wisdom'' has become so much a...the articulation of the conventional wisdom is like a religious rite...scholarship, Galbraith said, the conventional wisdom made originality highly acceptable...
- Conventional Wisdom and Performance-Based Pay.
- Magazine article from: School Administrator JONES, GARY December 1, 1994 700+ words
The conventional wisdom about performance-based pay...is that it cannot work. The conventional wisdom about performance-based pay...The first statement refers to conventional wisdom among educators and the second...
- Creating a new 'conventional wisdom'.(LIFE - SCHOOLS)(HOME-SCHOOLING TODAY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 2, 2005 700+ words
...Michael Smith, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Conventional wisdom can be fickle. Something is "conventional wisdom" until it is shown to be inaccurate and a new conventional wisdom takes its place. The world is full of examples of...
- Fund Facts Challenge Conventional Wisdom
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Russ Wiles September 25, 1994 700+ words
...comes along and upsets the conventional-wisdom applecart. It seems like...investing. Here are four conventional-wisdom tidbits that have come under recent scrutiny. Conventional wisdom 1: "Avoid high-turnover...
- Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form. (Reviews). (book review)
- Magazine article from: Women & Music Fast, Susan January 1, 2001 700+ words
Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form...has in her new book of essays Conventional Wisdom? For those who know McClary...the book aside. The essays in Conventional Wisdom were written and delivered as...
- Beware conventional wisdom.(housing boom and economic condition)
- Magazine article from: Medical Marketing & Media Ross, Warren April 1, 2006 700+ words
A year ago, conventional wisdom proclaimed that the dollar...seller, Freakonomics, why conventional wisdom is so often wrong and "why...step in not getting misled by conventional wisdom is asking the right questions...
