The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74839   Message #1308953
Posted By: frogprince
27-Oct-04 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Evangelical and Bushite not synonymous
Subject: RE: BS: Evangelical and Bushite not synonymous
I'm grinnin' Mrrzy, but not sure if I'm grinnin' despite having been poked in the ribs a little or not. What I got from fundamentalists for awhile was "how can anyone say they are an evangelical if they aren't a fundamentalist." You could tell they were just barely holding back from saying "How can you say you're a Christian if you're not a fundamentalist. It ain't all that hard, if 1. being a Christian has worked so well for you that you're inclined to share it, but 2. you realize that the Bible is a collection of writtings by fallible people trying to sort out what being a Christian is, not an authoritive document handed down in such a way that the original might as well have been in God's handwritting...
And if you can write without falling into outrageous run-on sentences...
Really these days I am probably just a rather liberal Christian; It's still the path I'm comfortable in, but I'm not at all inclined to think it's the only path anymore.