Do Fundamentalists (actually) Follow Jesus?
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Every Christian fundamentalist on the planet, of course, claims that they follow Jesus. Avidly. But do they?
Why do so many seem to overlook or ignore many of Jesus' key teachings? Surely they know what he said about loving the enemy and the foreigner? Why do they claim that Jesus said things he never, actually, talked about (many of the most pressing social questions fundamentalists are keen on)?
Is being a fundamentalist these days less about believing the "fundamental" doctrines of the faith and more about having the correct social and political views? What would Jesus make of Falwell and his Followers?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. |
| 0:06.8 | The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible scholar, |
| 0:13.3 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. |
| 0:29.7 | Hello everyone. Welcome back to misquoting Jesus. Today we are talking about fundamentalism and whether fundamentalists actually follow Jesus. If you ask a fundamentalist, if they follow Jesus, |
| 0:35.4 | the answer is likely to be an incredulous or very enthusiastic, |
| 0:39.5 | yes. But what did Jesus actually teach, and is it recognizable in how modern fundamentalists |
| 0:45.3 | live their lives? More crucially, would Jesus have approved of Jerry Falwell? Before we get to that, |
| 0:52.4 | but how are you doing? Yeah, I'm doing pretty well. |
| 0:55.6 | We've said before I've taken the semester off to work on my book. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm at the point where I'm going to actually start writing the thing, I think. |
| 1:02.6 | I've spent a couple years doing a lot of reading on moral philosophy and Greek and Roman moral |
| 1:09.3 | philosophy, and I think I'm ready. You know, the thing is, the question when you're writing a book is, when are you done with the research? And for a trade book like this, my answer is, I'm done with the research when I'm reading things that aren't teaching me anything I don't already know. It's not that I know everything. It's just like, yeah, |
| 1:27.5 | I've read this before. Like, you know, after a while, you read book after book after book about whatever. And after a while, you're just like, okay, yeah, I got it now. When I get to that point, that's when I start writing. And I think I'm nearly there because I'd like to get it, get it written before the summer starts. That's exciting. I was just going to say, Does it, once you start the writing itself, does it take you very long? |
| 1:26.8 | No. I's exciting. I was just going to say, once you start the writing itself, does it take you very long? |
| 1:46.6 | No. |
| 1:47.4 | I write crazy fast. |
| 1:49.4 | And so most of my trade books, the actual writing has taken me two weeks because I can write |
| 1:55.5 | 10,000 words a day or so. |
| 1:57.7 | For a while there, I was averaging about 14,000 words a day. |
| 2:00.5 | You do that for a few days. You got a book. |
| 2:05.0 | The key, though, is to know what you're going to say. And so, right, for me, I know exactly where I'm |
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