We are all dogmatic about issues we feel strongly about - the key for me is not as much dogmatism as it is being respectful of other opinions.  To me the whole conversation falls aparts when someone tells me that what I believe leads to heresy and gnosticism; there is no reasonable response I can give to that.  The logic would lead one to believe that Christianity leads to bombing abortion clinics or emergent theology leads to denial of truth.

I think we can all try to get this thing out of the gutter and do better without having to offend. If you have concerns about preterism leading to gnosticism, you need to perhaps lay them out exegetically or provide hermeneutial grounds for such a statement, and I think folks would be happy to continue the conversation in that vein. I know I would;a lot more people would benefit greatly from such an exchange :)