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the Faith. And it is a very legalistic, narrow view ofChristianity ... I am an evangelical. I’m not a member ofthe religious right and I’M NOT AFUNDAMENTALIST” (“Myths of the Modern Mega-Church,” May 23, 2005, transcript of the Pew Forum’sbiannual Faith Angle conference on religion, politics andpublic life).Warren did not try to explain to the Pew Forum that he isactually his own kind of fundamentalist and that he is merelyopposed to certain types of fundamentalism. He simplystated that he is no kind of fundamentalist and criticizedfundamentalism in the harshest of terms!Will the real Rick Warren please stand up!Of course, if we allow a man to make up his owndefinitions, he can be anything he pleases, and that is justwhat Saddleback Church has done in regard tofundamentalism. Real and acceptable fundamentalism, weare told, is simply to affirm that there are a few facts(Saddleback mentions only three) about the Christian faiththat must be embraced.That, my friend, is a brand new definition offundamentalism. There never was a document called “theFive Fundamentals of the Faith.” The name “fundamentalist”was derived from a series of books called “TheFundamentals” that was published from 1910-1915. Theseries, composed of 90 articles written by 64 authors, did notpromote “five fundamentals” (or three) but rather dozens offundamentals. (For more about the history of fundamentalismsee our free ebook titled “New Evangelicalism” atwww.wayoflife.org/free_ebooks/.)Notice that Saddleback Church warns of “another type offundamentalism” that is described as “keeping the right rulesin the right way in order to please the right people.” That is a39