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Seriously, for the love of Christ (literally), quit trying to paint us fundamentalists as some kind of gullible fools who never think for ourselves. It's more than a little annoying and while I can only imagine what the others think, I've just about had my fill of that attitude from others who claim to be our Brothers and Sisters and you're not without blame in that matter.

I don't even know what classifies or categorises a "fundamentalist" and I've not used that term, so I have no idea what you are talking about me blaming all of "you" (whoever "you" are) as being gullible fools who never think for yourselves)

I agree that Camping needs to be called out for these stunts, -- I think he's made Christianity look particularly silly but being called out -- that's between him and God.

but Camping isn't a fundamentalist despite what he claims. -- as I said, I don't even know the full boundaries of that term, so I have no idea what Camping is, beyond a guy who makes funny statements -- like Silvio Berlusconi.

We're finally getting to the core of the problem. I didn't realize that you don't know what constitutes a Fundamentalist.

Simply put, we're Christians who have gone back to the fundamentals of the faith, stripping away everything but the bare essentials in an effort to ensure that we're worshiping God as faithfully as possible. The traits I'll list below are common to all Fundamentalists, including me unless otherwise noted.

We believe in the inerrancy of the Scriptures in their original autographs, the literal nature of the Biblical accounts, especially regarding Christ's miracles but also including other aspects such as the Genesis creation account.

We believe in the virgin birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, death and resurrection of Christ as well as his physical return and ministry to the Apostles after His resurrection.

We believe in the substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross and that even now He is acting as our intercessor to the Father on our behalf.

We believe that we were ordered to occupy until Christ returned, indicating that Christ was to physically return to rule and reign over us during the Millennial reign. In this respect, we hold that the physical Millennial Reign of Christ has not begun in earnest yet and we are still awaiting that event.

Finally, while we may disagree about the timing of the Rapture, or Harpazo, we all expect it to happen at some point prior to the official beginning to the Millennial Reign. I, personally, hold a Pre-Tribulation view point but can see where Mid-Trib and Post-Trib believers take their views from.

Does that give you more of an idea of the kind of person you're dealing with now?