[Vigilanteman]

Both of yinz make interesting points and I congratulate you for your civility, a civility which is too often absent when some of the extreme fundamentalists get into the fray.

Too many of these are the 5% crowd. i.e. you are an apostate and an enemy if you disagree with them on just 5% of their doctrinal dogmas.

And make no mistake that they are dogmas, often in the extreme. A friend of mine observed that they are really no different than "cafeteria Catholics," only in their choices of what they select in the cafeteria.

Or, put another way:

1. Catholics take the "body of Christ" thing very literally.
   
2. Mormons take the "children of God" thing very literally.
   
3. Fundies take their private interpretation of the Bible very literally.

[Alex Murphy]

Too many of these ["extreme fundamentalists"] are the 5% crowd. i.e. you are an apostate and an enemy if you disagree with them on just 5% of their doctrinal dogmas. And make no mistake that they are dogmas, often in the extreme.

It's one thing to claim that someone else is damned based upon their adherence/refusal to a particular creed or statement. It's quite another thing for someone to refuse to document their own doctrines (or to change them on a whim), and then damn you for having violated them. Personality cults are spawned out of the latter behavior.

[ArrogantBustard]

"Fundies" ....

Perhaps you mean "Fundamentalists"? That is, people whose beliefs are more or less codified in a series of books called The Fundamentals?

I (obviously) disagree with them on a number of topics, but I congratulate them for at least being consistent and open about the nature of their beliefs.