Actually I made it up ;)
Submitted by F.O.D. on June 11 1999 at 05:24:52
In reply to Re: Thoughts for you and for others Submitted by Andy on June 10 1999 at 20:37:02
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Hello Andy, you're not illiterate at all. Actually I made the word "chimeral" up. Well, I was sort of hoping it was a real word, but I wasn't entirely sure. If it doesn't exist, it should. It's a reference to the mythological "chimera", a beast with several head - lion, eagle, snake, if I remember correctly. I used the word to represent something which does not have a concrete meaning, which is two-faced, as it were, nebulous. What I am objecting to is the way people usually use the word "fundamentalist" as a blanket term of derision to mean Christians who aren't afraid to admit to what they believe in. Maybe I'm missing something in the usage here, but most often that is how the sense comes across, to me, at least. My point is, do the people who use this term actually think about what it means? What exactly does it mean? Do you know? I don't. Am I a "fundamentalist"? Are you? Is it someone who believes the miracles in the Bible actually happened? I believe that. Does that make me a "fundy"? But I think Gen 1 is poetical account of creation, rather than literal. Does that make me not a "fundy"? The only real concrete definition I ever saw was one mentioned by GOL, which says a fundamentalist means a pre-millenialist who will not acceptany other teaching other than that Jesus will return before a literal 1000 year reign on earth. If that's what it means then it rules me out, cause I don't how how the millenium prophecy will be fulfilled. That's what I mean by saying the word "fundamentalist" is many-faced, having no actual meaning in its own right. It has become a cliché, a tool to becludgeon Christians and trivialise their concerns and thoughts. Hope I'm not being too hard-headed. I don't mean to make Adam feel he's not welcome to discuss his experiences with Christianity. Love, Fod |