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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 02:21 AM
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"Fundamentalist" is recognized as a bad term
Edited on Sat Sep-24-05 02:32 AM by HEyHEY
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 02:31 AM
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1. Not surprising

since it's spelled wrong
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 02:32 AM
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2. Coming from a guy called "Spinnzoner" - I don't care
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 02:35 AM
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4. Proper names are exempt

I can spell my name howsomeever I wish.

Hey, Heyhey isn't even a word, so who are you to talk

:eyes:
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 02:37 AM
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5. You've never been to Indochina have you!?
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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 02:44 AM
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7. We don't need words here anyway, it's all telepathy
Wouldn't the more correct term for the euphemistic 'fundamentalist' be the word opportunist?

Mostly the observations I have seen about these cults is that the rules get applied fast and loose and or changed as the situation dictates
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firefox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 02:33 AM
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3. You Canadians
Fundamentalist is the proper spelling and it is a word and not a term. I imagine most people would not want to be labeled a Christian fundamentalist, but then again, the true fundamentalist is probably proud of it.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 02:42 AM
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6. You've struck it!
The reason I edited my title, that is.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 03:37 AM
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8. "Fundamentalist" is destined to replace "liberal" as the era's
new dirty word.

More than likely.
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Tallison Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 04:54 AM
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9. Got its name from the 1912 publication "The Fundamentals..."
"Testimony to the Truth."

From the site religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/fund/html:

"The term `fundamentalism' has its origin in a series of pamphlets published between 1910 and 1915. Entitled "The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth," these booklets were authored by leading evangelical churchmen and were circulated free of charge among clergymen and seminarians. By and large, fundamentalism was a response to the loss of influence traditional revivalism experienced in America during the early years of the twentieth century. This loss of influence, coupled with the liberalizing trends of German biblical criticism and the encroachment of Darwinian theories about the origin of the universe, prompted a response by conservative churchmen. The result was the pamphlets. In 1920, a journalist and Baptist layman named Curtis Lee Laws appropriated the term `fundamentalist' as a designation for those who were ready 'to do battle royal for the Fundamentals.'"
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beingthere Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 05:22 AM
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10. The spelling police should retire, maybe.
I found out it's stressful to be the language police and spelling police, and retired from this activity. It's been great, and frees up time for other concerns.
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