Stackhouse also advised his audience not to take their problems with the media too seriously. There's a spirit in those remarks that has something in common with those expressed by Sister Pauline Lally of the Sisters of Providence, who organizes vigils outside Kingston city hall to protest against cuts in government social programs. Don't let the media give you a false sense of power,'' she advised church people who might have dealings with the media. And, while he regretted the lack of religion coverage, it seemed clear he sees himself as mainly on the rationalist side of that divide. I think his analysis is faulty at about the same place where Stackhouse's is incomplete.
Fundamentalism is rationalist.
Its essence is applying texts and a few principles, in a literal and cerebral manner. Similarly, as Stackhouse sort of suggested, secularism can be a sort of fundamentalism. There were a lot of fundamentalists at the conference. I don't mean that there were a lot of crazies at the conference. The Christians at the conference covered the Christian spectrum pretty well but the evangelical and conservative end was particularly well represented.