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Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4146
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So, I gotta speak up about Rowling's definition of fundamentalist. I *am* a Christian fundamentalist, and proudly so. "Fundamentalism" comes from a series of propositions made by Christian academics in response to the "Christ as myth" movement in mainline european churches in the late 19th and early 20th century. Basically, these mainline churches said "Well, it doesn't really matter if Jesus really rose from the dead or not. There's no real difference between the God of Christianity and the God of [fill in the blank]. Jesus was a good guy with nice ideas and that's what's important. Let's not worry about whether or not he really is the Son of God." The current poster boy for this is James Talarico's theology in his Texas church.
As a response, a number of Christian academics got together and said, "No. If Christianity is just a metaphor for something else, then you don't need Christianity. Just believe in the something else. We, on the other hand, *do* believe in some very basic ideas about Jesus." They called those ibasic deas the "Fundamental" ideas of basic believing Christianity. People who agreed were called "Fundamentalists"
This attempt to distinguish between believing Christians and, essentially, "social" Christians is a recurring issue throughout the history of Christianity. In 1797, William Wilberforce wrote essentially the same thing, distinguishing "Real" Christians from Social Christians. In the 1940s, CS Lewis made the same distinction in a series of lectures which became the book "Mere Christianity" published in 1953.
People who dislike this kind of simple Christian faith attempt to smear it by pretending it's no different than terrorists and "Islamic fundamentalists" and "Whatever fundamentalists." This is wrong, and it uses a specific term in Christian theology to smear people whose only crime is simple faith.
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So, I gotta speak up about Rowling's definition of fundamentalist. I *am* a Christian fundamentalist, and proudly so. "Fundamentalism" comes from a series of propositions made by Christian academics in response to the "Christ as myth" movement in mainline european churches in the late 19th and early 20th century. Basically, these mainline churches said "Well, it doesn't really matter if Jesus really rose from the dead or not. There's no real difference between the God of Christianity and the God of [fill in the blank]. Jesus was a good guy with nice ideas and that's what's important. Let's not worry about whether or not he really is the Son of God." The current poster boy for this is James Talarico's theology in his Texas church.
As a response, a number of Christian academics got together and said, "No. If Christianity is just a metaphor for something else, then you don't need Christianity. Just believe in the something else. We, on the other hand, *do* believe in some very basic ideas about Jesus." They called those ibasic deas the "Fundamental" ideas of basic believing Christianity. People who agreed were called "Fundamentalists"
This attempt to distinguish between believing Christians and, essentially, "social" Christians is a recurring issue throughout the history of Christianity. In 1797, William Wilberforce wrote essentially the same thing, distinguishing "Real" Christians from Social Christians. In the 1940s, CS Lewis made the same distinction in a series of lectures which became the book "Mere Christianity" published in 1953.
People who dislike this kind of simple Christian faith attempt to smear it by pretending it's no different than terrorists and "Islamic fundamentalists" and "Whatever fundamentalists." This is wrong, and it uses a specific term in Christian theology to smear people whose only crime is simple faith.
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