Christian Fundamentalism proved to be one of those religious fads, here today and gone tomorrow. Jerry Falwell would be disappointed. Charles Hartshorne, one of the founders of process thinking, published his book, "Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes" in 1984 when the author was 89. Fundamentalism (he didn't use the word) was one of the glaring mistakes considered. According to the fundamentalist, the Bible is the ultimate authority for faith and life, every word supposedly being from the mouth of God.
No thinking adult who knows the history of the Bible can defend such a claim. The Bible is full of truth but also full of contradictions, somebody has it wrong. There is no simplified version. The fundamentalist can only slander and despiritualize those who ask real questions of the Bible. In response Charles Hartshorne asks:
“Is it desirable that religion should seem more and more an affair of the intellectually undistinguished or mediocre?”
Charles
Hartshorne, “Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes”. P. 44.
