Never a good sign when they label you as a "fundamentalist" right from the beginning.
Fundamentalist: A term created during the turn-of-the-20th-century Protestant church splits to define those who held to the “fundamentals” of Christianity—the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Jesus and his literal resurrection from the dead. The term is now considered pejorative. (Wheaton College philosophy professor Alvin Plantinga famously observed, “The full meaning of the term...can be given by something like ‘stupid sumbitch whose theological opinions are considerably to the right of mine.’”)
-- from the thread New Kids In The Flock
I’m a fundamentalist (Independent Baptist) and happy to be so. They’re trying to stretch/change the meaning of that word in order to include us, or even exchange us, for the Muslim extremists who go around killing others in order to foist their beliefs upon the world.
To clarify, the statement you highlighted does not call all Christians “fundamentalists” - which is almost always a slur - it talks specifically about “fundamentalist Christians” - and certainly, there are some, and some here on FR, who do seem to be oblivious at times about how they will readily use big government when it suits them.
As a Christian conservative, I find some problems with some fundamentalists, and some problems with the hard core libertarians. Having said that, there is a swath of ideas, issues and philosophies that all groups share, and which are in opposition to the Obama express. I focus on those....