"What is the difference between Christian, Fundamental Christian, and Evangelical Christian?"
Babzy's looking for some clarification:
Q. What is the difference between Christian, Fundamental Christian, and Evangelical Christian?
Christian is a broad group, and covers any group or individual who believes in 'God' in the biblical sense, and how the bible is interpreted and applied to daily living is what sets apart Pentecostal from Catholic from Baptist, Lutheran, Evangelical, and yes, even rhymes-with-undies Fundies.
Evangelical Christians are kinda like Jehovah's Witness in that they are all about the conversion factor. JW bug your ass at your home; Evangelists take over the airwaves (think Billy Graham). The Evangelists have kind of honed in on this passage:
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.
– Matthew 28:19,20 King James Version
The entire premise of their religion is to spread the word of God and make the non-Christians convert. As you may well predict, they occasionally encounter opposition, and as you may also well predict, there are those sorts who will take this passage one step further and feel that God allows and has even instructed them to develop a hatred and intolerance for anyone who not only isn't a Christian, but to those who they deem aren't *good* Christians.
I call the Fundamentalists "Fundies" because they have put 'fun' back into religious debates. They base their entire religion on very literal interpretations of the bible, and make sure the really important biblical passages are adhered to, like forbidding women to teach Sunday school. They also focus a lot of their time (and I mean A LOT of their time) denouncing modern ideas or 'isms' like 'evolutionism.' According to the Fundies, Jesus walked with the dinosaurs. According to them, all those scientists who worked on carbon dating methods are off by a couple million years. The fundies have proof, and even put it in museums.
I like picturing disciples gathering up the village people, children scampering about happily chanting, "Jesus is coming! Jesus is coming!" They excitedly head for a seat under the fig tree for a little soul savin' and just then, wouldn't you know it, astride a majestic triceratops, Jesus rounds the corner, "Giddyap!"
Q. What is the difference between Christian, Fundamental Christian, and Evangelical Christian?
Christian is a broad group, and covers any group or individual who believes in 'God' in the biblical sense, and how the bible is interpreted and applied to daily living is what sets apart Pentecostal from Catholic from Baptist, Lutheran, Evangelical, and yes, even rhymes-with-undies Fundies.
Evangelical Christians are kinda like Jehovah's Witness in that they are all about the conversion factor. JW bug your ass at your home; Evangelists take over the airwaves (think Billy Graham). The Evangelists have kind of honed in on this passage:
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.
– Matthew 28:19,20 King James Version
The entire premise of their religion is to spread the word of God and make the non-Christians convert. As you may well predict, they occasionally encounter opposition, and as you may also well predict, there are those sorts who will take this passage one step further and feel that God allows and has even instructed them to develop a hatred and intolerance for anyone who not only isn't a Christian, but to those who they deem aren't *good* Christians.
I call the Fundamentalists "Fundies" because they have put 'fun' back into religious debates. They base their entire religion on very literal interpretations of the bible, and make sure the really important biblical passages are adhered to, like forbidding women to teach Sunday school. They also focus a lot of their time (and I mean A LOT of their time) denouncing modern ideas or 'isms' like 'evolutionism.' According to the Fundies, Jesus walked with the dinosaurs. According to them, all those scientists who worked on carbon dating methods are off by a couple million years. The fundies have proof, and even put it in museums.
I like picturing disciples gathering up the village people, children scampering about happily chanting, "Jesus is coming! Jesus is coming!" They excitedly head for a seat under the fig tree for a little soul savin' and just then, wouldn't you know it, astride a majestic triceratops, Jesus rounds the corner, "Giddyap!"
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