[Vision2020] Fundamentalists vs. Evangelicals

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

In response to Dave Budge's call for caution, I just want to say that I'm 
using my terms very carefully.  For my own detailed analysis of the terms 
"evangelical" and "fundamentalist" you should read the first chapter of my 
book God, Reason, and the Evangelicals, in which I use the term 
"evangelical" to refer to millions of American Christian and do not use the 
term "fundamentalist" at all.  (See www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/gre.htm.) I 
believe that only a small portion of these Christians would affirm the 
positions that I mention in my essay: (1) An arrogant proclamation of those 
who are saved and those who damned; (2) a gleeful wish for the destruction 
of infidels on either side; (3) an ethnic chauvinism of the type we see in 
the League of the South; and (4) a serious affirmation that the laws of God 
should be the laws of the land.

Yes, "fundamentalism" is a tricky word, but the other reason I chose to use 
it here is that these positions fit so nicely with what we know of Muslim 
fundamentalism.

Nick Gier
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