Quote:There are Evangelicals like mainstream Lutherans, Baptists, Calvinists who have doubts about the infallibility of the bible, and there are fundamentalist Evangelicals, like that wack job who protests at funerals.Right. And you'd think a poll, like the one above, would capture that - when given two options, between the Bible being the literal message of God, word for word, or the Bible being merely inspired, but not to be taken literally, people would answer approximately how they believe.
You can see the breakdowns. There are plenty in both categories.
There is, however, only one Fred Phelps: a man so utterly devout, scrupulously honest, and completely fracking nuts that he is hated by all his contemporaries, except a small circle of fanatically devoted allies. He spends all day telling people exactly why they're going to hell if they fail to embrace his precise brand of crazy, whether they want to hear it or not. In this, he reminds me of Jesus.
-Jester