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Meri
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Date: September 22, 2014 08:36PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalism"Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to orthodox theological doctrines, usually understood as a reaction to Modernist theology."
Actually, please do look up the term and/or read the wikipedia article.
I don't hold a literal view of all of the bible. I think that much of it is allegorical; a huge part of the KJV includes cultural biases under the guise of divine inspiration (I have an interlinear so I can look up my own darn greek, hebrew and chaldee); the majority of the pentateuch is a congomeration of various stories that the writers would have run into (mostly from trade and that's just how sharing stories work -- you adapt them into your own world view).
For the most part, I think that I believe in partial preterism (that means I'm not a futurist dispensationalist and I do NOT believe that we are living in the last days. I'm not waiting for Jesus to show up and fix the world.)
I don't believe that we should boycott places because they disagree with my religious beliefs and I think that others who do should stop being hypocrites and no longer buy gas (they sell cigarettes there!).
I don't know what I believe about the creation story. I don't know what I believe about the nature of God. Genesis 1:1 says in the begining GODS created the heavens and the earth. My head is still spinning from that one.
I don't always vote conservative (that alone makes me not even a christian anymore -- ask the fundies, that's how I found out that I'm not a *real* christian)
I believe that the majority of the OT is probably suspect, but I do believe in the NT.
I have many other heretical beliefs, the keep me out of the club.
However, I do believe that Jesus was born, died for our sins and rose from the dead. Yes, those are fundy beliefs, but a lot of other nonfundies believe those things as well.