Reply #119: I used to be a fundamentalist. [View All]

[Dervill Crow]

Missouri Synod Lutheran. That's pretty darn fundamental. And I did care about "poverty, the environment, animal welfare, healthcare etc."

To me fundamentalist meant someone who believed in the fundamentals that Jesus taught. I don't know how it got to be a dirty word to some people any more than I know how liberal got to be a dirty word to other people.

To me liberal means someone who is respectful of other people and their beliefs. There's more to it than that, but that's it in a nutshell. Why are those two words mutually exclusive? It makes me want to cry, but then everything is doing that to me today.