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Thread #68095   Message #1143468
Posted By: Strick
22-Mar-04 - 09:56 PM
Thread Name: Nonexistent:God, An Anthropomorphic Personal Deity
Subject: RE: BS: Nonexistent: God, An Anthropomorphic Per
"Bush may not personally be a fundamentalist, but he values the support of the religious right enough to adopt fundamentalist rhetoric."

I take you wouldn't know a fundamentalist Christian from any other kind, Bee-dubya-ell. I know this is hard to understand, but most Christians use the same jargon, same figures of speech, the same symbology. I'm an adult convert, so it hits me odd sometimes, too. As I posted on another thread, if you look around the church of Bush's spritual advisor you'd think they were fundamentalist to the core. Of course it's one of the most liberal churches in the South, liberal in the theological sense (you know that "liberal" theology is the opposite of funamentalism, right?), liberal in a positive, social activist sense and liberal politically. Rev. Kirbyjon's a Black Democrat in Houston, after all.

So what exactly do think a fundamentalist is and believes, anyway?