I have continued to mull over the question of fundamentalism, on which I have already typed many words. A particular question comes to my mind, though: what difference does it make? For it seems to me that fundamentalism constitutes something like a parasite – it hitches a ride on the spirituality inherent in reading Scripture, but the only thing which insistence on inerrancy contributes is: the perpetuation of the ideology of inerrancy. I can’t see anything of spiritual or theological worth which it contributes. Which may just be my blindness, of course.
However, I’m going to put this to the test. I’m going to write a few posts over the next few days (prefaced with WDDIM?) looking at particular texts, and asking that very question. I’ll begin tomorrow with Genesis 1 and 2.