In the ongoing war between religious extremism and secular humanist atheism, labels seem to be created and tossed around with reckless abandon. The term fundamentalist is used in secular literature these days to describe virtually anyone who has a religious objection to anything.
Religious literature seems to associate the word fundamentalist with the label ultraconservative .
The thing that gets lost in all this labeling and name-calling is the argument that is at the core of the disagreement. The problem with fundamentalism is that it depends upon humans. Because not everyone agrees on these matters, we have literally hundreds of divisions among those who claim to be religious fundamentalists in their following of Jesus Christ. In the area of Christian apologetics, religious fundamentalism has done an incredible amount of damage. Human creeds, doctrines, and belief systems have biased people's understandings of the Bible because the human systems have been laid down, and the Bible has then been forced into the human systems.