The real difficulty is in that “neutral reading” part. Easy enough if you’re not a Christian, but if you are...
As a teen, I was a fundamentalist Christian. When I began to take my faith seriously, I set about doing some apologetics, and did some work on biblical inerrancy. Well, after a little research, I found that inerrancy just didn’t hold up. (Most lists don’t contain the good examples, unfortunately.) So I became an atheist.
I think fundamentalism is precarious, because it encourages a scientific viewpoint with regards to the faith, which requires ignorance or double-think to be stable. In the absence of either, it implodes.
The real difficulty is in that “neutral reading” part. Easy enough if you’re not a Christian, but if you are...
As a teen, I was a fundamentalist Christian. When I began to take my faith seriously, I set about doing some apologetics, and did some work on biblical inerrancy. Well, after a little research, I found that inerrancy just didn’t hold up. (Most lists don’t contain the good examples, unfortunately.) So I became an atheist.
I think fundamentalism is precarious, because it encourages a scientific viewpoint with regards to the faith, which requires ignorance or double-think to be stable. In the absence of either, it implodes.