http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2005/07/evangelicalism-a-response/ your source for illegal theology downloads Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:44:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/2005/07/evangelicalism-a-response/#comment-500 Morphea Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:50:59 +0000 http://addisonrd.com/WordPress/?p=135#comment-500 I agree. I believe that, like "niggardly", there is sometimes just too much of a negative miasma around a word to keep it in frequent circulation. To the common American mind, I think, (and I'm speaking as the Commonest of the Common here) the words "Evangelical" and "Fundamentalist" have had their day. I'm not going to try to assert again that the two terms are used as one and the same, though I suspect they are. I'm saying that those two words seem to be associated with sign-waving, angry-faced, pasty white American groups trying to outlaw all the fun stuff so much that the bad press has far outweighed the good. I truly think it's time to scuttle both terms (can we get rid of "Christian", too, while we're at it? Anybody mind?) and come up with new stuff. No amount of re-visiting them, finding new meaning and Taking Back the Names will save them from hopeless negativism at the point, in my opinion. I say this with the full knowledge that I may be way, way too bitter about modern Christianity and its impact on my own life, though, to have a very helpful take on this. Sorry if I offend. I agree. I believe that, like “niggardly”, there is sometimes just too much of a negative miasma around a word to keep it in frequent circulation. To the common American mind, I think, (and I’m speaking as the Commonest of the Common here) the words “Evangelical” and “Fundamentalist” have had their day. I’m not going to try to assert again that the two terms are used as one and the same, though I suspect they are. I’m saying that those two words seem to be associated with sign-waving, angry-faced, pasty white American groups trying to outlaw all the fun stuff so much that the bad press has far outweighed the good. I truly think it’s time to scuttle both terms (can we get rid of “Christian”, too, while we’re at it? Anybody mind?) and come up with new stuff. No amount of re-visiting them, finding new meaning and Taking Back the Names will save them from hopeless negativism at the point, in my opinion. I say this with the full knowledge that I may be way, way too bitter about modern Christianity and its impact on my own life, though, to have a very helpful take on this. Sorry if I offend.

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