WHICH IS BETTER? FUNDAMENTALIST OR FANATICAL?

 

Pope Benedict was and is always precise in his use of language. He called Catholics who reject his resignation “fanatical” Catholics. 

Whereas Pope Francis, who isn’t precise in his language and his language always obfuscates the truth or confuses it, would more than likely use the term “fundamentalist” Catholic. 

To be clear “fundamentalism” is a Protestant ideology. It was caused by the modernism of Protestantism associated with the “great awakening” of the 1800’s. Liberal Protestantism so aligned itself with secular thought, a reaction developed that led to the Fundamentalist movement of the early 1900’s. Of course Protestantism as it has no vicar of Christ acting as a central authority does what Protestantism does, it fragments and each fragment claims it to be an act of God to get to the real truth.

Martin Luther, the first Protestant, wasn’t a fundamentalist, he was a fanatic. 

Catholicism has always had fanatics. What is unique since Vatican II that made the Church more Protestant for an ecumenical ideological purposes is that we are now paying for what it means to be Protestant, fragmentation and each group claiming to be recovering the truth. 

Actually fanaticism is extremism. Fundamentalism is extremism too, but extreme in what sense, the true Protestant religion? There is no such thing. 

But in Catholicism there is the True religion and extremism is being more true than the True religion but and it’s a big BUT...YOU CAN’T BE MORE TRUE THAN THE TRUE RELIGION. We have the Magisterium which Protestants don’t have. Fanatics forget that in their extremism.