Why do non Christians call Christians Fundies?

Question

Calling a Christian a Fundie is equal to calling a black man the N word.

Answer 1

Why get upset over a non Christian acting like a non Christian? Their just doin' the only thing they know how just as we once did before Christ came into our lives.


Ephesians 5:7-9 (New International Version)
7 Therefore do not be partners with them.
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)

Answer 2

We don't call all Christians Fundies. Only the ones who profess Fundamentalist beliefs. Sometimes, I guess it can be insulting. So can being told that I am going to hell because I am not a Christian. Get over it.

The word fundie is in no way like the "N" word. Not at all. That is a cheap generalization on your part.

Answer 3

Whoa, I cannot agree with you equating "fundie" to the "N" word.

But to answer your question, people call Christians "fundies" often out of ignorance. For example, the person above who called the Jesus Camp people "fundies." They are nothing of the sort. They are actually Pentecostals, which are a quite different group--and in my opinion a far more frightening one.

Answer 4

I don't call all Christians "fundies", just the fundamentalists. Yes, it is a pejorative term. I would never use it in polite conversation with a person I knew to be a fundamentalist. However, here online I am going to voice my honest opinions about people's beliefs, just as fundies voice their beliefs that I am going to hell for my failure to embrace their mythical god and equate my "godlessness" with immorality. I'll also note that fundies feel quite comfortable making such attacks on me in person.

Answer 5

I’m a militant ANTI-Theist type of Atheist.
I call spades, spades without doing crass n*gger jokes.
I paint y’all the colour – you believe in a particular make, brand, species, model of The Invisible Sky Critter?
You’re a FUNDIE!
KISS.
When did I start taking this attitude?
28th August 1987.
Why?
“When George Bush SENIOR was campaigning for the presidency, as incumbent vice-president, one of his stops was in Chicago, Illinois, on August 27, 1987.
At O'Hare Airport he held a formal outdoor news conference.
There Robert I. Sherman, a reporter for the American Atheist news journal, fully accredited by the state of Illinois and by invitation a participating member of the press corps covering the national candidates, had the following exchange with then-Vice-President Bush.
Sherman: What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are atheists?
Bush: I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community. Faith in God is important to me.
Sherman: Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?
Bush: No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?
Bush: Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists.”

It was then I got my crude awakening.

So now fundies, Theists of any Colour or Intensity, you can kiss my hairy A*S.

Answer 6

No, not really, It's about equal to calling a "fluffy" Wiccan a "fluff bunny"...something I have also done.

Not all Christians are fundamentalists. Fundie is a slang term used to label a particular kind of Christian, the fundamentalist.

Answer 7

I know fundies who don't mind being called fundies. They accept it as a badge of honor.

If a non-Christian uses it, I expect them to use it correctly and not refer to ALL Christians as fundies.

And shame on you for equating a little harmless name-calling to the use of a particular racial pejorative.

Answer 8

No, it's not at all. "Fundie" is a somewhat derogatory slang abbreviation. The N word has all the history of racism and oppression of an entire race of people. Maybe when people start lynching fundies you can make that claim.

Answer 9

Who knows...Anyone who resorts to name calling, in an attempt to annoy or harass is lame, regardless of what they believe. Anyone who says fundie lacks a valid argument or comeback, and has dug deep...
I could give a rat's petootie about being called a "fundie" ( am not geneally called one) but it's the point of being that weak minded that you have to call names. That goes for ANY name, not just "fundie" LOL....

Answer 10

What? This is the stupidest thing I have heard today.

Listen. A fundamentalist Christian was never enslaved, lynched, brutalized, burned to death, raped, denied the right to vote and all the other horrible things that are conotated in the word n.gger. Have you ever been called a n.gger? Filfthy n.gger? I'm betting most people who have would never make that comparison. It's absurd.

In discourse it is quite useful to discern between liberal, rational Christians and the fundamentalists and evangelicals.