Do you honestly think that any of those denominations that are waffling on homosexuality were in any way distinguishable from what you call "Fundamentalist" at their founding?
It's their allegedly "high view" of the Bible that's the problem, not the solution. And I'm talking about sola scriptura, not creationism. And I don't think it's really a "high view," but a low view; one that subsumes the meaning of God's word to "whatever I want to believe today".
If more people settled for getting religious truth from the Bible, we'd be better off. Instead, a whole lot of them don't get religious truth, or secular truth, or scientific truth, or any other truth out of it. They simply ignore or gloss over the parts of it that don't fit with what they want, until they get what they do want: a mirror, showing them the "God" they really wanted to find, themselves.
And that goes for people of every religious stripe, Catholics and fundamentalists included.
Sermon over.
This is why I stand with the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, who is getting hell for his assertion that Islam is an evil religion. I doubt he has a good opinion of Catholicism either. If only he knew that how many Catholics also have a “Fundamentalist” view of Scripture, including the pope, leaving aside the question of the role of the Church.
Yes, and even the Catholic Church was probably "Fundamentalist" at one time. So? The churches that are still fundamentalist are the ones that stand strong; the ones that ceased being Fundamentalist are the problem--precisely because they ceased being fundamentalist.
It's their allegedly "high view" of the Bible that's the problem, not the solution. And I'm talking about sola scriptura, not creationism. And I don't think it's really a "high view," but a low view; one that subsumes the meaning of God's word to "whatever I want to believe today".
Since I don't believe in "sola scriptura," I don't know why you're preaching at me.
If more people settled for getting religious truth from the Bible, we'd be better off. Instead, a whole lot of them don't get religious truth, or secular truth, or scientific truth, or any other truth out of it. They simply ignore or gloss over the parts of it that don't fit with what they want, until they get what they do want: a mirror, showing them the "God" they really wanted to find, themselves.
And Catholic theologians and clergy are right there along with everyone else who does it.
And that goes for people of every religious stripe, Catholics and fundamentalists included.
Sermon over.
I still don't know what that had to do with anything other than your need to prove that the Catholic Church is more solid on moral issues than Fundamentalist Protestant churches (it's not).