In case you missed it, this is a story from today’s foxnews.com:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307058,00.html
In short, this church goes around the US protesting the funerals of gay soldiers holding up signs that read things like “I’m glad he’s dead.” Fox News simply identifies the church as a “fundamentalist” one. Now, obviously no fundamentalist I know would claim them as their own, and I am not even sure they would call themselves fundamentalist. What I am trying to say in this blog is that that doesn’t matter. If you check out their website (google it — Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, KS — you’ll die when you read the name of the site) you’ll notice that they are unashamedly 5-Pointers. Do they soil the good name of Calvinism–sure. But here’s the point: Fox News doesn’t call them Calvinists. They call them fundamentalists. If they had called them Calvinists (I doubt very many people at Fox could tell you what a Calvinist is anyway) I would would hesitate ever using that label again. I could argue all day long that they don’t represent REAL Calvinism and would get nowhere. After my rant they would ignore me and still call them Calvinists. It would be time to abandon my label no matter how much great tradition was associated with it. Just a thought.
Since we are on the subject of fundamentlism, check out JP’s recent response to the FBFI’s resolution against him.
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/891_praise_god_for_fundamentalists
