re: #103 Decatur Deb

Way too late:

“They deserve to be cast into hell; so that divine justice never stands in the way, it makes no objection against God’s using his power at any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, “Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?” Luke 13:7. The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and it is nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God’s mere will, that holds it back. “

Jonathan Edwards, 1741

Oh, for sure, Fundamentalism has roots in the Great Awakening, started by Edwards and others throughout the Northwest Ordinance and further west. Hell fire and brimstone sermons, eternal damnation, the whole shmeer. Calvinism 2.0. Then, those people turned into Methodists and UCC people and became more mainstream.

The 20th century Fundie movement is the latest crest of the cycle, but shows no signs of moderating.