Reply #71: Your post #34 is nothing more than a restatement of what's being disputed in this sub-thread.

[Silent3]

by this, I mean that certain atheists in R/T are the only people I regularly encounter who insist that if I consider myself a Christian, then I must interpret the Bible with a fundamentalist's literalism

Asked to provide an example these people you "regularly encounter", you dither for a while, then eventually produce a quote from me, where indeed I was dealing with Biblical literalism, but where I wasn't addressing you or any other non-Fundamentalist, and where I certainly wasn't insisting that anyone be a literalist.

I was talking about how horrible the version of God someone who claims to be a literalist would be have to be. I find it hard to see where you get from that, "Therefore, this God is such a horrible God, you'd better make sure you're a literalist if you call yourself a Christian so this horrible God of the literalists will be your God too!"

No, you haven't "provide(d) a coherent parsing", or more to the point, provided sufficient example, of this type person you claim to regularly encounter. It's as if you claimed that you keep running into golfers who smoke, yet when asked to produce an example, you point triumphantly at a man playing golf who isn't smoking, isn't carrying cigarettes, and doesn't even smell faintly of tobacco, shouting, "There! See!?"

Answering my post #57 would certainly help make it more clear exactly what you mean this thing is that you're claiming you encounter so regularly, but you seem very resistant to providing any such answer.

And even if you had managed to show evidence that this insistence on literalism occurs regularly, you have yet to "provide a coherent parsing" that explains how A's insistence on B's fundamentalism in philosophy X makes A a fundamentalist of A's opposing not-X philosophy.

The only way that could possibly work is if you go back to the OP's claim: "fundamentalist" is being used as nothing more than an vaguely defined insult, in this case used to accuse someone of generically obnoxious rhetorical behavior.