Quakers are not fundamentalist, and even Mennonites are only marginally fundamentalist--both are pacifist. Amish are, sort of, in their own way, but many of them don't vote because of their fundamentalism [go figure--which Bible tells them not to vote?]. However those who do, while conflicted by hot-button issues like homosexuals and abortion, are more concerned about war, since they're also pacifists. I like my Amish neighbors anyway--they're always so friendly and practical.
Moravians are also evangelical and not fundamentalist, to the point where their members have been persecuted by more fundamentalist-leaning sects like the Southern Baptists.
People in central Pennsylvania are much more likely to be evangelical than fundamentalist. There are more moderate evangelicals than conservatives, and a fair size minority of liberal evangelicals, while the fundamentalists are much less than 1%.
Since housing costs have skyrocketed in the Baltimore-Washington area, more people who work in Baltimore [i.e. more moderate] are moving to PA for the less expensive housing, and that's beginning to make a difference, too.
Fundamentalism may not be as loathesome as one might expect from some televangelists, but it is ignorant, closed-minded, fearful of knowledge, fearful of neighbors, fearful of the future--although tolerated as long as adherents don't interfere with the rest of us. Unfortunately, they home-school their children to keep them "in the dark".
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zenie on
04/03/2008 01:32:42 PM EST
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