Douglas Wilson Makes a Major Mistake Regarding Fundamentalism

May 5, 2009

On his blog “Blog and Mablog”, Douglas Wilson posts the following:

http://www.dougwils.com/index.asp?Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=6522

“Here is the reception that Miss California Carrie Prejean got at the gospel music Dove awards the other night. A standing ovation.

And here is a clip from a press release by the Liberty Counsel

“Miss California, Carrie Prejean will be in Lynchburg today to encourage thousands of Liberty University students to stand up for their faith, as she did recently at the Miss USA Pageant. Following her appearance at Liberty’s Convocation Service at 10:00 a.m., she will join Mat Staver and Matt Barber on Liberty Live from 4-5 p.m., where she will be taking questions from listeners during the program.”

Fundamentalism has come a long way since the days of Evangelist John R. Rice. Let us call it the Liberty University Hot Bodies Convocation Service, though to be fair, Miss Prejean will almost certainly be dressed for this event.”

Wilson makes a major error in trying to link Liberty University to fundamentalism in any way, shape or form. Liberty is not fundamentalist and the fundamentalists have no link with Liberty. Liberty has not been associated with Biblical Fundamentalism since at least the early 1980s and the death of John R. Rice. Anyone who mistakes Liberty University as a fundamentalist school shouldn’t be writing these kinds of blogs until he learns what fundamentalism is and who is still identified with it.

The correct spiritual assessment here is that “Miss California” is appearing at a New Evangelical/Southern Baptist university that is solidly in the camp of the apostasy and that is fully cooperating with the contemporary neo-Christianity of our day. So this story is really a “non-story” from the point of view of a genuine fundamentalist or a remnant saint- just more of the same.


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