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Thanks to Jason for pointing me to shameful piece of anti-intellectual nonsense:
As Frame notes above, the term “fundamentalist” is now a term of derision. And fundamentalists have legitimated much of the baggage that weighs down that term. But all evangelicals are indebted to fundamentalism (in ways we are decidedly not indebted to liberalism) for preserving a belief in the supernatural and passing it on to us. Fundamentalism is a ditch that evangelicals can still fall into. Liberalism is another. But if you have to pick one or the other, history has shown over and over again that a firm belief in the supernatural always trumps intellectual sophistication. And this is why fundamentalism (for all its manifest shortcomings) is better than liberalism.
Which label scares you more — “anti-intellectual” or “anti-supernatural”? God help us always fear the latter more.
via here.
That’s right, I said. Fundamentalism and Liberalism are two sides of the same coin. They both seek to hide Scripture behind their respective causes, traditions, and agendas. They deny what Scripture actually said, and only want it to say what they desire it say.
Further, only a fundamentalist would see the options as only left or right, ignoring Church History and biblical studies. I pity the authors of those post, because it is obvious that the only faith that they have, and it is hanging by a wire, is in their own interpretation not only of the Scriptures, but of history and reality as well.
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Joel Landon Watts is a Masters of Theological Studies student with a focus in Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific ideals of the past century. Currently, he is a TA for Old Testament at United Theological Seminary under Dr. Vivian Johnson, Associate Professor of Old Testament. His first book, Rhetorical Strategies of the Evangelist: Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark, is expected to be published by Wipf and Stock early next year. He is currently co-editing a book on moving from Fear to Faith (Energion, 2013).
