Reply #6: Not sure it's possible. [View All]

[donco6]

To be a "fundamentalist" you'd have to take a literal view of the Bible, which is one of the biggest hangups of all. RW fundies can't get past it.

Here are the major tenets:

Inerrancy of the Scriptures
The virgin birth (or deity) of Jesus
The doctrine of substitutionary atonement
The bodily resurrection of Jesus
The miracles (or, alternatively, the second coming) of Jesus Christ <1> (http://www.fpcnyc.org/fundamentalism.html)

"Derivatively, a fundamentalist Christian is a Christian who holds the Bible to be infallible, historically accurate, and decisive in all issues of controversy that the Bible is believed to directly address; which is the central issue for which the Christian Fundamentalist movement has contended." Wikipedia entry - good one.

This is one reason creationism is such a big deal. If you believe in a literal interp of the Bible, and the Bible is "historically accurate", you can't believe in evolution. It's a litmus test. So how many lefties are going to be "fundamentalist firebrands?" Not many, IMO.