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The Psychology of Fundamentalism

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This Sunday School class talk was given by J. Pittman McGehee, D.D. on October, 1989. Pittman talks about the fundamentalist in all of us as a result of placing authority outside ourselves. We always have to make choices and an adolescent ego always looks to an authority for their decisions. We all get dizzy from the myriad of choices we have to make and our ego doesn’t want to be wrong or make mistakes. He reminds us that our ego is all we are able to tolerate about ourselves and fundamentalism is a reaction to the age of reason. Maturity takes a very long time to achieve for most of us as we develop the capacity for paradox.

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