In Praise of Aerosol Cheese

Wow, my post on Bob Jones and fundamentalism has provoked a large reponse from readers -- almost all of it helpful and constructive.  Carl has also offered some insightful comments immediately below. 

I would respond to Carl by saying that it certainly is necessary for the Christian antithesis to be rightly handled and placed within a proper context. When it is not, the Christian anthesis can be as much of a menace as a virtue.  But one must first possess such an antithesis in order to do this at all. I am all for the criticism of a wrongly handled and applied antithesis. But these days, I am almost overjoyed simply to find an antithesis anywhere.  Perhaps the best defense of a positive fundamentalist approach to antithesis is the description of BJU that I have received from so many emails today.  It seems that it is precisly because they stand so firmly on the Bible that they are listening so thoughtfully and benefiting so positively from voices outside of their own tradition.

With this in mind, let me just bounce some comments off of Carl’s numbered points: