AH Challenge: Fundamentalist USA

With a POD after 1900, make it happen by YTK. Bonus points for a Sharia-like system banning all unchristian culture (Inspired by the Anime thread).
 
Not hard at all. All you need is a harsher approach to counter-culture, which could come about with a greater prominence of fundies following either world war. Hell, by our standards, the US was fairly fundie leading up to the 20th anyway.
 
More united fundamentalists might help. If anything seems normal when dealing with religous fundamentalists its that they'll spend as much if not more time arguing among themselves as with those outside there believes. Create more unity and you could get a more fundamentalist government, although I wonder how much of a reaction you'd get.
If we're talking protestant fundamentalists such as those in politics today you might see a reaction against them from other faiths even in a society that isen't secular. Groups which don't see Catholic or Orthadox people as Christians are going to make a lot of enemies in post-1900 USA.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
A William Jennings Bryan administration could potentially lead to this, what with his peculiar brand of economic populism and very, very conservative social stances (except for women's suffrage; he was in favor of that). The best POD for this would probably be the 1896 election. Any problem moving the POD back four years? :p
 
A William Jennings Bryan administration could potentially lead to this, what with his peculiar brand of economic populism and very, very conservative social stances (except for women's suffrage; he was in favor of that). The best POD for this would probably be the 1896 election. Any problem moving the POD back four years? :p
No problem, I just want to see it happen :D
 
There's always the old favorite of a new great awakening in the 1920's sparking a theocratic coup against the secular government.
 

mowque

Banned
A William Jennings Bryan administration could potentially lead to this, what with his peculiar brand of economic populism and very, very conservative social stances (except for women's suffrage; he was in favor of that). The best POD for this would probably be the 1896 election. Any problem moving the POD back four years? :p

My TL has some of this. Also, the KKK.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
POTUS William Jennings Bryan + Stronger Great Awakening in the early 1900s = one huge step towards "Mission Accomplished!"
 
Hi, this is my first post here, but I have an idea about this(It's basically a combination of Weird History's and BlackWave's idea). Now, this will probably sound a bit ASB, but my idea is to cause the Baby Boomers to have a Great Awakening instead of what happened in OTL. I may be wrong about this(and anything else I claim in this article), but I think I can identify two major influences on that generation:

-The Civil Rights Movement
-The Beat Generation

If we eliminate both of those influences, there is a decent chance IMO that a Great Awakening would occur, but there would also need to be a push in that direction as well.

As to eliminating those influences, the easiest way to take care of the Civil Rights Movement would be to prevent Brown v. Board of Education from turning out the way it did, but I'm not sure that would be enough. As for the 'beatniks', that would be a bit harder. I'm thinking that there be a systematic silencing of them, perhaps under charges of communism. This would be the less important of the two for our purposes, though.
 
Not possible, and probably ASB.

There is not monolithic "fundamentalist" movement in the United States. What left wingers call "fundies" encompasses a broad range of church organizations, The Southern Baptist Convention, The Assemblies of God, numerous smaller organizations, plus thousands of independent church congregations. While in broad agreement on matters of faith and morals these churches have many differences in Biblical interpretation. On certain issues they are disdainful of each other. (Ask a Baptist preacher what he thinks about "speaking in tongues" in a Pentecostal service, for example.)

These groups, and their memberships, tend to be suspicious of centralized authority and governmental power. They have roots in the Protestant reformation and are opposed to anything that, in their view, would stand between the believer and God. They are also highly democratic, in that all decisions about church governance are made by the local church, in the form of the congregation, by vote of the membership, not a far away official.

It is not fertile ground for a movement for a top down dictatorship.

The whole reason that the "religious right" emerged in the 1970's was as a backlash against against what they viewed as a society that had become overly permissive and hostile to them. They did not want to impose a theocracy, but to prevent the imposition of a secularized state, implicitly hostile to Christianity, that would impose an alternate morality in place of traditional morality.
 
OTOH, perhaps if a group of Reconstructionist Presbyterian/Dutch Reformed people took over, we could see a more restrictive, religion-based society. (They are major influences on the Religious Right in many aspects, even if much of the Religious Right wouldn't agree with all their teachings. (The Reconstructionists differ with Fundamentalists & Pentecostals on Church Order, Premillenialism, Baptism, Tongues and other issues.))
 
OTOH, perhaps if a group of Reconstructionist Presbyterian/Dutch Reformed people took over, we could see a more restrictive, religion-based society. (They are major influences on the Religious Right in many aspects, even if much of the Religious Right wouldn't agree with all their teachings. (The Reconstructionists differ with Fundamentalists & Pentecostals on Church Order, Premillenialism, Baptism, Tongues and other issues.))

Dutch Reformed!?This is the after 1900 POD forum,I can't imagine theres to many Dutch in the USA;):rolleyes:
 
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