Neo-Fundamentalism

As one of my previous, and since removed, posts has made clear, I’m not going to be calling out ministries by name, unless I feel it extremely necessary.  However, that isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy smart people making dumb people look…well…dumb.

Some of the best feeds in my reader are contemplative, coherant, well thought out, critical analysis of some of the Neo-Fundamentalist blogs out there.  Don’t know what a neo-fundamentalist is?  No problem.

A new addition to my feed reader has the answer.

JesusCreed.org seems to have a firm grasp on reality.  They give one of the best descriptions of the watchdog, “reformed”, neo-fundamentalist websites out there.  He starts by saying,

I was reared in a Fundamentalist church, and we were incredibly proud of it. We were strident, largely uneducated (even dismissive of education), theologically censorious, separatistic, intolerant, and accusatory of every smidgeon of slight alteration. There were no questions; there were answers — and we had them. We saw our abrasiveness as a sign that the rest of the world couldn’t count the cost; rejection proved we were right. I’m embarrassed today mostly about what we were like as humans - we were ungracious if not unchristian.

WOW!  What a paragraph!  I could NEVER have said it better myself.  I simply have nothing more to add to that paragraph.  He goes on to say,

There is a conviction among Neo-Fundamentalists that one can’t err if one gets too conservative, but that is the sin of what I called “zealotry.”

OK, I do have something to add here.  There is a misunderstanding among Christians, of yesterday and today, that the more conservative we are, the more pleasing to God we are.  You just can’t go wrong if you’re too far right.

I have a serious beef with that.  Neo-fundamentalists may claim that there is no danger in being ultra-conservative, but they’d be wrong.  I like how he calls it the “sin of…zealotry”.  Indeed it is a sin, because calling something that is NOT a sin, a sin, is not right.  In fact, it’s a sin
Anyway, take a look at the article.  It is truly an eye-opener.

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