Bitter Root: Atheistic Practices Embedded in Christian Fundamentalism

Using case histories and the words of Christian Fundamentalist leaders and teachers, Jeri Massi shows that Christian Fundamentalism draws a considerable amount of its religious culture from the philosophies attributed to atheist philosophers Fredrich Nietzsche, Ivan Pavlov, and BF Skinner. Indeed, the book finds that much of Christian Fundamentalist religious practice directly opposes what Jesus Christ taught. Massi shows, from the Bible, that Christian Fundamentalism's insistence on a literal interpretation of the Bible is not so much literal as it is a materialist interpretation, removing from the Bible much of its wisdom and vitality.