Christian fundamentalism

[Clare73]

That's the broad definition, but in practice, it's going to mean more than that. I decided that since I'm not a KJV-onlyist, I didn't fit in.

Is that in their statement of belief?
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[Ancient of Days]

What is a Christian fundamentalist?
How would you define one?
Is being a Christian fundamentalist a good or a bad thing? And why?

A 30 second online search would have answered your question...

Let me ask you a question: What does a Buddhist truly seek on a Christian forum?

 

[Tellyontellyon]

What does a Buddhist truly seek on a Christian forum?

What do you think? What's your fantasy about me?
Am I here to undermine Christianity?
Challenge your beliefs?
Learn something?
Boredom?
A wish to connect?
Curiosity about your faith?
Reconsidering my own?
All, some, none of these?

What are you doing here?
What's your motivation in asking me?
Are you up to no good?

 

[Ancient of Days]

Im going with option #8 "Reconsidering my own"

 

[Tellyontellyon]

Im going with option #8 "Reconsidering my own"

Cigar on its way to you.

 

[aiki]

What is a Christian fundamentalist?
How would you define one?
Is being a Christian fundamentalist a good or a bad thing? And why?

It depends upon who you ask, don't you think? The liberal Christian will tell you that fundamentalists are the next thing to Nazi skinheads, or radical Islamists who blow themselves up. But the Christian fundamentalist himself has a very different view and thinks just as poorly of liberal Christians as they do of him.

If you take your lead from the word "fundamental" in defining what a Christian fundamentalist is, you'd settle naturally on the things the fundamentalist thinks are foundational elements of the Christian faith: the Gospel, the trinitarian, transcendent nature of God, the God-breathed nature of Scripture, justification by faith, the holy character of Christian living, the Final Resurrection and Judgment, etc.

All the fundamentalist Christians I know are quite unlike the rabid monsters liberal Christians make them out to be.

 

[hedrick]

Speak for yourself. My church is mostly liberal, but we have conservatives. They get asked to participate in leadership too. They are not Nazis. They are just wrong about what the Bible is.

 

[dlamberth]

All the fundamentalist Christians I know are quite unlike the rabid monsters liberal Christians make them out to be.

Rather it's true or not, I think that the present political climate may not have helped that image very much.

 

[aiki]

Speak for yourself. My church is mostly liberal, but we have conservatives. They get asked to participate in leadership too. They are not Nazis. They are just wrong about what the Bible is

And you, as a liberal Christian, would be regarded by the fundamental, conservative Christians I know as equally mistaken about the nature of the Bible.