What Is Fundamentalism?
Leaving Eden Podcast
Leaving Eden LLC
4.5 • 744 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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In this episode we discuss the history of (small f) fundamentalism and how it became (capital F) Fundamentalism that we see today.
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| 0:00.0 | No rolling river of time. |
| 0:07.0 | You've healed me in too many days. |
| 0:13.0 | No regrets, no confusion, there'll be no pollution.'m so thankful i've decided to change my ways Welcome into the Leaving Eden podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | We are here to discuss cults, religion, fundamentalism, and everything related to those topics. |
| 0:41.8 | Sadie Carpenter, she is your host. |
| 0:44.3 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:46.1 | She's a cult expert and she is a cult survivor. |
| 0:48.7 | My name is Gabby Hikohen. |
| 0:50.2 | Sadie, what are we talking about today? |
| 0:52.2 | So today we're going to talk about fundamentalism, and then we're also going to talk about |
| 0:56.0 | fundamentalism. |
| 0:57.5 | Small F. fundamentalism. |
| 1:00.7 | Okay, so small F fundamentalism, um, like the, when it says disinviguated on Wikipedia, |
| 1:06.4 | it's a general term for a philosophical idea set that can apply to a lot of disciplines. |
| 1:11.7 | Big F. Fundamentalism is a movement in modern Christianity that is shaped more of the last |
| 1:18.1 | century of American politics than you think. |
| 1:21.5 | Very interesting topic. I was fascinated to learn about this when Sadie and I started talking |
| 1:26.3 | about this. |
| 1:34.4 | The thing I have the most trouble explaining to people is that what we think of as Christian fundamentalism today is almost the complete opposite of what it originally began as |
| 1:42.5 | in some ways, not in others. |
| 1:45.2 | Right. So, defining like small F fundamentalism, it's the idea that things were better in the past, |
| 1:53.4 | like at the inception of a thing. So we should go back to the way that we used to do this thing |
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