Wesley R. Elsberry
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Joined: May 2002
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Speaking of revisionism, using "fundamentalist" to apply to people back in the 1600s and 1700s is simply equivocation. The Christian fundamentalist movement takes its name from essays published between 1910 and 1915, "The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth". Even if one broadly takes fundamentalism to mean "Accepting dispensationalism", one cannot class people prior to around 1820 as generally having that doctrinal commitment.
It's the same old YEC argument that many great scientists were "creationists", but saying "fundamentalists" instead. It, like the earlier argument, ignores the inconvenient fact that pretty few of the people named (e.g., Agassiz) were exposed to any credible scientific alternative to their religiously-based viewpoint on earth history.
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"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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