Fundamentalism - christiansquoting.org.uk

In every discipline but one, it is a compliment to be called a fundamentalist. A scientist who gets down to fundamentals is thought to exhibit good understanding. An engineer who gets down to fundamentals is thought to design and build sound structures. A military man who deals in fundamentals demonstrates sound strategy, tactics, and logistics. A business man who deals in fundamentals is thought to be able to demonstrate a goodbottom line. But in religion, a fundamentalist is looked upon with scorn and amusement. --- Charles Colson

Because fundamentalism found itself under attack, it developed a defensive mentality. A harsh and uncharitable spirit came to predominate. . . . Within its own ranks, internal suspicion and bickering over minor points of doctrine increased. From a movement of genuine scholarship, positive statement, and a certain latitude of evangelical position, fundamentalism came to be increasingly a negative, defensive and reactionary movement ---." The New Evangelical Theology, 1963, quoted by Grenz, Renewing the Center, 2000

The opinions of the village atheist are as fundamentalist as anything any Baptist ever believed.-- Rodney Stark, _Touchstone Magazine_, Feb. 2000