Fundies cause trouble again

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Evangelical fundamentalists last night stepped up their campaign to oust Rowan Williams, the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, before he even takes up his post, by threatening to take "direct action" against him. The council of the Church Society, the Church of England's oldest evangelical body, joined a younger evangelical pressure group called Reform, which is also opposed to Dr Williams, in calling on him to recant his supposedly liberal views on sexuality or stand down.

Perhaps it's time for 'Mainstream' Christians to take on the fundamentalists? For too long non-fundamentalists have been afraid to speak their mind, perhaps fearful of rocking the boat and seeming to promote disunity.

Surely those people who believe in crude literalist interpretations of scripture who believe that out-of-context bits of the legal code of a bronze-age tribe should still apply to the modern world need to be told that they're just plain wrong.

If Christianity were to retreat into an unthinking blind fundamentalism, it's doomed. Such attitudes are on the losing side of history, and have been for three hundred years.