Former fundamentalists ...(letters)(Letter to the Editor)

The Christian Century | December 13, 2005| | Copyright

AS A FORMER fundamentalist myself, I felt as though I had been kicked in the face by the opening sentence of Jason Byassee's review of Brian Flemming's film The God Who Wasn't There: A Film Beyond Belief ("Passionate disbelief," Sept. 6). Byassee is certainly entitled to his opinion of Flemming, but to say that "he is that most dangerous of religious creatures: the former fundamentalist" is bad journalism.

A great many very good and faithful Christians are former fundamentalists, who are certainly not dangerous in the sense in which Byassee implies. In fact, former ...

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