Conservative Christian killfiling of certain threatening ideas posted by some here is
understandable if the one time Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture
(University of Oxford) is correct about conservative evangelicalism:
"The real and fatal cost of fundamentalist doctrine and ideology, as a system of
life. . . is its personal cost: it can be sustained as a viable way of life only at the
cost of unchurching and rejecting, as persons, as thinkers or scholars, and as Christians,
all those who question the validity of the conservative option. The presence of the
questioner breaks down the unnatural symbiosis of conflicting elements which makes up the
total ideology of fundamentalists. We can thus understand why liberals and
other non-conservative persons have not only to be disbelieved, discredited and overcome
in argument; they have, still more, to be eliminated from the scene altogether."
James Barr, Fundamentalism (London: SCM, 1977, pp. 314-15)
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