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In that first instance, it looks like it means "Basic". Ie, the most basic principles a person could have. But basic could also mean barbaric/out-of-date.
Generally, words mean what people think they mean. And fundamental usually means:
1/ Old fashioned religious wackos, or
2/ That word in the constitution that looks good and stuff.
quote:For instance, I don't believe sex before marriage is scriptural. But the Bible says nothing about contraception and I have no problem with that.
When you say that sex before marriage isn't scriptural, do you mean that it isn't in the bible? And therefore you don't have a problem with doing it?
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I mean that the Bible holds premarital or extramartial sex to be unacceptable. So I don't do it. But it says nothing about contraception, and I don't have anything against the use of contraception.
You had pointed out 3 areas in which the Catholic church is "fundamental", and I was just asking, if I agree with some of those points, but not others, does that mean I'm a Fundamentalist by the accepted definition.
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The bible holds many things to be unacceptable, like homosexuality, and many things to be acceptable, like selling your daughter into slavery. Obviously, if you don't agree with something that (according to the bible) is acceptable but do agree with something that (also according to the bible) is unacceptable, then you're not a fundamentalist. But I think a better definition is simply how laid-back you are in interpreting and adhering to scripture, as Liam said.
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So, according to the bible, if I buy someone's daughter, it's okay but I cant go to a prostitute?
Is'nt that just "renting" someone's daughter?
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"Whose daughter are you talking about?"
I don't know if that's some sort of trick question, but I was speaking in general.
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"I mean that the Bible holds premarital or extramartial sex to be unacceptable."
Well, extramarital sex is okay, as long as you call her a "concubine".
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Well, it's in Exodus 21:7:something.
quote:And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation, he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. If he take him another wife: her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
If you take that literally, of course.
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It wasn't a trick question at all. I was just wondering what yspecifically you were referring to. Thaz all.
As far as extramarital sex being ok, it *happened*, but I don't think it was ever necessarily ok. Certainly not after the establishment of the Christian congregation where the guidelines for men of responsibility included being "a husband of one wife" and "looking at a woman so as to develop a passion for her" was likened to committing adultery in your heart.
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