[unspun]

"This author has a chip on his shoulder against Christianity."
I beleive he states in the article that he is a Christian.

Fundamentalist Christians are merely people who believe the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit. Are you (gasp) a fundamentalist?

I sure am.

So, are we fundamentalists "the problem?" Fundamentalists, like most of the folks who founded America? --the pariahs of the world?

Very poor philosophy, attacking "fundamentalism." With such off-center group-think, its a wonder that the world can keep spinning with us. The problem is clearly not whether someone observes the fundamentals of a set of beliefs. The problem lies in whether or not one has accurately understood beliefs as their fundamentals (for we all have them, whether or not we admit).

We're all fundamentalists, Lord love us. May we all be fundamentalists of the truth, rather than any of the host of alternatives.

[Servant of the 9]

Fundamentalist Christians are merely people who believe the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Depends on where you live.
In the South, believing scripture is inspired by the Holy Ghost makes you a Christian.
To be a fundy, you mostly gotta believe that scripture is the absolutely inerrant literal word of God without any errors of translation or transcription. No allegory or interpretation allowed.
That may not be correct, but it is what most non-fundamentalists consider fundamentalist.

So9

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank y'all for the pings!

I started to read this thread but gave up when I noticed that the author had bundled intelligent design, young earth creationism, and various theology under one title, "fundamentalism". Sigh...

As I understand it, "fundamentalism" was a formal agreement among the major Christian denominations around 1900 with regard to a set of common beliefs. The first among them is that the Bible is inerrant. Others, as I recall, included the diety of Christ, the resurrection, virgin birth, etc.

I am a fundamentalist. More specifically, I believe the Bible is inerrant, that it reveals God truly but not fully.

For me, everything in Scripture reconciles quite nicely with science. For instance, using the Scriptures, relativity and the inflationary theory, I perceive the age of the universe is 6 days at the inception space/time coordinates (Creation week with God as the observer) plus approximately 6,000 years from our space/time coordinates (the era of Adamic man) which is the same as roughly 15 billion years from our space/time coordinates alone.

For any Lurkers interested in my views:

Evolution through the backdoor

Origins and Scriptures

[biblewonk]

But we expect them to hate us because our bibles tell us that they will. So all is still right with the world. I wonder when they will lock us up for owning bibles.