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Fundamentalist? If the shoe fits....AND IT DOES!

Fundamentalist has such a negative connotation in the minds of so many Christians.  Fundamentalists are considered narrow-minded, intolerant, ignorant, backward, isolated, etc. - and the list goes on. So why in the world would I embrace such a deplorable term? (I have to admit, the word “deplorable” has such a nice ring to it after the 2016 US Presidential Elections.  Note: I AM one of those “Deplorables”) So back to the term Fundamentalist.  The bottom line is that the word “Evangelical” has lost so much of its historical meaning.  When that term came into popularity around the middle of the 20th Century, it was a term of conservatism.  It was term to differentiate Christians from a section of the Church (the Fundamentalists) who were seen (rightly or wrongly) as those who were more focused on rules and what you did NOT do (we don’t drink, we don’t dance, we don’t go to movies, we don’t…) as a Christian.  So men like C. Carl Henry and Billy Graham championed a new iden