&gt; I would describe myself as liberal, even by the already relatively liberal standards of coastal California, but I&#x27;m not sure incoherence and hypocrisy are things only the Republican party is guilty of.<p>Which is <i>still</i> not true <i>as a generalization</i> by any meaningful definition of &quot;fundamentalist&quot;. The Evangelical movement was precisely a reaction against the elements of the Fundamentalist movement that made &quot;fundamentalist&quot; a generic term of zealous, narrow-minded extremists.