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« on: May 30, 2012, 09:15:03 AM »

Just so you know, holding to inerrancy doesn't necessarily make one a fundamentalist. Christian Fundamentalism has a very specific history and context as a movement, with a certain set of characteristics that are quite different from other forms of "conservative" Christianity. A fundamentalist wouldn't usually accept Charismatic or Pentecostal Christianity as valid at all, yet the vast majority of the latter would believe in some form of inerrancy. Also, the word "literal," like fundamentalist, is thrown around but is generally unhelpful without any kind of qualification. To say that one believes the Bible is the "literal word of God" gives the impression that God was dictating to all of the authors of the books of the Bible, which isn't something most of the authors would claim. Even those fundamentalists and uneducated evangelicals using that term don't mean that. I'm personally more comfortable with the language of infallibility as opposed to inerrancy, but in practice they are the same, and I'm certainly not a Fundamentalist (I'd probably be thrown out of a Fundamentalist church).

As for the question, the answer is no, I haven't. I haven't met a single person who wasn't dogmatic in some regard, but I catch your drift. Most Christian Fundamentalists, if not all, are dogmatic about issues that aren't even dogma.
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