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By 1960, Civil War II was already on for BJU. For their cult of personality, racial segregation would be coded and exploded into a thousand ecclesiastical separations. To exploit Burke\u2019s summary\/equation on Hitler\u2019s Battle, the rubric looks like this: the powerful leader\/family\u2019s inner voice would equal leader-people identification, equal unity, equal fundamentalism, equal the South, equal Bible, equal sword, equal gospel, equal war, equal school as midrib, equal responsibility (the personal responsibility of the absolute evangelist), equal sacrifice, equal the theory of \u201cfundamentalist separation\u201d (the free will choice of the family who then accepts the responsibility, and demands first-time obedience in exchange for this sacrifice), equal love (with the followers as feminine), equals idealism, equals obedience to Order, equal race. Or to put it more succinctly: just like “the patterns of Hitler’s thought are a bastardized or caricatured version of religious thought,\u201d so the patterns of fundamentalism\u2019s \u201ctheology\u201d are a bastardized version of Christian theology.<\/p>\n
For fundamentalist rhetoric, a civically abhorrent social segregation is no different from a reluctantly tolerated ecclesiastical separation. This Civil War II is more cold than hot, but still \u201cbrother\u201d fights against \u201cbrother\u201d to this day. This analysis disagrees with George Marsden’s conclusion that fundamentalism was a more-Northern reaction to World War I. Instead, it is clearly a Southern and Northern continuation of the bloodiest American war in history.<\/p>\n
Even though, for Americans, Burke is all ours\u2014he writes in our dialect, within our conflicts, to our culture\u2014his essay comically dismantling \u201cHitler\u2019s Battle\u201d is still about another time and another place. Bob Jones University\u2019s \u201cBattle\u201d for racial segregation is wholly American, and intersecting Burke with Weaver and Haynes and other scholars on fundamentalism, myself included, brings Hitler\u2019s rhetorical tragedy uncomfortably close. This is ours<\/em>. This is our ongoing war\u2014our anti-Hitler Battle. Our job is \u201cto find all the available ways of making the\u201d fundamentalist \u201cdistortions of religion apparent, in order that politicians of his kind in America be unable to perform a similar swindle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By 1960, Civil War II was already on for BJU. For their cult of personality,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[89,107,167,575,579,581],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speak","tag-billy-graham","tag-bob-jones-university","tag-civil-war","tag-race","tag-racial-reconciliation","tag-racism"],"yoast_head":"\n