Another religious article

[neadods]

Slactivist (whose LJ feed is unsurprisingly, slactivist) has an interesting article comparing fundamentalist attitudes towards the Bible to the "strict constructionalist" judiciary. Basically, the thesis is that the attitude that the Bible is literal, clear, and not subject to any change or interpretation is being applied to the Constitution, which is equally considered literal, clear, and not subject to any change or interpretation. This the root of the complaints against "activist judges" - ie, those who do not hold modern society to what was "clearly intended" by the 18th century founding fathers. An interesting read.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

The original article was pretty much centered on dominionism - but I'm finding that that's not much understood as a term outside the theology watch and the evangelical circles.

[twistedchick]

Describe the beliefs to people, and they'll do one of three things:
-- recognize them, and/or
-- connect them with what's going on in government, or
-- say you made the whole thing up.

At least that's what I've found.