Reply #63: well...

[Djinn]

A fundamentalist (just my 2 cents seeing as you asked) is someone who believes not ONLY in the literal truth of the Bible (though God himself only knows how they do that given the contradictions contained within it - must be like living with MPD) but also in the NEED to "save" other people's souls whether they like it or not. The people who want to see organised prayer in schools, the end to the teaching of evolution and abortion criminalized because it offends THEIR religious sensibilities.

Don't get so paranoid Cheswick no-one has ever suggested ALL Christians are "fundies" - I couldn't care less what people believe - if they want to believe the world was created 6000 (literal) years ago and that humans descend from Adam and Eve, created by a benevolent all knowing deity, then more power to them - if they want to promote legislation that effects MY life based on NOTHING but THEIR interpretation of a religious belief they are in line with the Taliban and I have no time for them.

People use the term fundie because it's a lot quicker than typing, "religious zealots who wish to enforce their view of God on everyone by force."

Why do you have problem with the word, it’s clearly used so as to separate the majority of Christians (and adherents of other religions) from the few who are fascistic about it.