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Greetings:<br><br>
In response to Dave Budge's call for caution, I just want to say that I'm
using my terms very carefully. For my own detailed analysis of the
terms "evangelical" and "fundamentalist" you should
read the first chapter of my book <i>God, Reason, and the Evangelicals,
</i>in which I use the term "evangelical" to refer to millions
of American Christian and do not use the term "fundamentalist"
at all. (See www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/gre.htm.) I believe that
only a small portion of these Christians would affirm the positions that
I mention in my essay: (1) An arrogant proclamation of those who are
saved and those who damned; (2) a gleeful wish for the destruction of
infidels on either side; (3) an ethnic chauvinism of the type we see in
the League of the South; and (4) a serious affirmation that the laws of
God should be the laws of the land.<br><br>
Yes, "fundamentalism" is a tricky word, but the other reason I
chose to use it here is that these positions fit so nicely with what we
know of Muslim fundamentalism.<br><br>
Nick Gier<br>
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