[Terriergal]

I suspect that many of Warren's harshest critics on this board have also been just as critical of Fundamentalists as Warren.

Define Fundamentalists.

I have far less problem with them than with 'permissivists.'

Truthfully, I know that Rick is far more conservative than he says publicly. That is a political facade, and I look at it as virtually synonymous with cowardice as well. John Macarthur has written a book _Ashamed of the Gospel_ which I think applies quite well.

[lupie]

That is a political facade, and I look at it as virtually synonymous with cowardice as well. John Macarthur has written a book _Ashamed of the Gospel_ which I think applies quite well.

I would agree with you here. And it is an excellent book. I highly recommend it.

[P-Marlowe]

Define Fundamentalists.

It is a broad term that ought to apply to any Christian who believes that the Bible is the inerrant word of God. I use it to describe myself, even though I am not a legalist or a KJV onlyist or a baptism by immersion onlyist.

When used in a media context it is often used as an attempt to smear Christianity in general with a vision of toothless, stupid, illiterate snake handlers and Holy Rollers. IMO Christians ought not to join in the denigration of Christianity by calling everyone who has a more conservative view of scriptures than themselves, fundamentalists. We are all (or at least we all should be) fundamentalists.

Truthfully, I know that Rick is far more conservative than he says publicly.

I suspect that Warren's problem is most likely tied to the fact that since he has become successful in his ministry he has surrounded himself with yes-men who nod at his every statement and encourage him to be non-confrontive. Being nice and being stupid are not signs of apostasy. They are perhaps signs of compromise. Who among us is not guilty of that?