Are you a fundamentalist?

[redactorab]

Harper’s magazine—a bastion of liberal goofiness—recently published a long screed about “fundamentalism” and America. It’s very insulting, but here’s the link, if you’re interested:
harpers.org/ThroughAGlassDarkly-12838838.html

The problem I have is this: I do not consider myself a “fundamentalist,” but I find that increasingly, whenever that category is invoked in today’s media, religous people of ANY stripe are tossed into it. Even if your views are no more specific than “I believe in God,” you will be put in the “fundie” camp, and there’s no way to argue your way out—because you’re obviously a fanatic. I don’t know why this rankles so much, but it does.

Thoughts?

 

[Melanie01]

…all that is written by wishy washy morally weak folk who believe in nothing and care about less…so what:thumbsup:

 

[awalt]

I love our Pope’s quote on this:

What often gets “labeled as fundamentalism,” he said during a Mass he celebrated on Monday, is merely having “a clear faith, based on the creed of the church.”

 

[Gamera]

To some people, a “fundamentalist” is anyone who belongs to a religion and believes what it teaches.

 

[Wisdom]

Depends on who is defining the term and what the defintion is.

I think anyone who makes the automatic assumption they are going to heaven and all those who disagree him are going to hell fits the bill but that’s just my definition and that is not what the media is going by. If you think marriage is between a man and a woman and abortion is taking of a human life to media that makes you a fundamentalist and hey that would make me a fundamentalist per thier defintion and the Pope has been labeled a fundie for years by the media so that is what Pope Benedict is referring to even though he knows he is not a fundamentalist but a Creedal Catholic.