Good article on fundamentalism
August 4, 2016 at 1:59 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2016 at 1:59 pm by drfuzzy.)
It's from 2014, so some of you may have seen it already.
But it describes my upbringing SO well. The list (which I will hide because it is long) describes this group, as it exists today, precisely.
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The Lies Christian Fundamentalism Taught Me
May 12, 2014 by Christy Caine, head admin and primary commenter/responder on the Unfundamentalist Christians Facebook page.
I was raised a fundamentalist Christian. Here is some of what we were taught, both explicitly and in a million different little ways, every single day of our lives:
Those are lies. And they are deeply damaging.
And if you are unfortunate enough to be raised a Christian fundamentalist, you have no choice but to believe those lies until, because you are very lucky and/or very strong, you break free from the controlling, brainwashing environment in which you and your family exist. Yours is a world in which not only all outsiders, but all television, music, movies and books are shunned. So what you are taught is literally the only truth you know.
And that is why, as toxic and harmful as they can certainly be, whenever I deal with Christian fundamentalists I bear in mind Jesus’ “Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do.” Because I know how true that is.
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-- And this woman is still a Christian. I can kind of understand it. After I realized that the fundies were completely wack, I still wanted "church" for a while. I still wanted there to be a benevolent god somewhere. But I suppose I was one of the "lucky" ones that finally had to admit that the idea of god was just as absurd as the rest of the bullshit. Partly because it doesn't make sense, and partly because . . . if there WAS a god, why does he allow his preachers and priests to be some of the most evil people on the planet? And why do they all fight among themselves over who is worshiping the imaginary friend the right way?
Fundamentalism is scary - can I get an AMEN, brothers and sistahs?
But it describes my upbringing SO well. The list (which I will hide because it is long) describes this group, as it exists today, precisely.
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The Lies Christian Fundamentalism Taught Me
May 12, 2014 by Christy Caine, head admin and primary commenter/responder on the Unfundamentalist Christians Facebook page.
I was raised a fundamentalist Christian. Here is some of what we were taught, both explicitly and in a million different little ways, every single day of our lives:
Those are lies. And they are deeply damaging.
And if you are unfortunate enough to be raised a Christian fundamentalist, you have no choice but to believe those lies until, because you are very lucky and/or very strong, you break free from the controlling, brainwashing environment in which you and your family exist. Yours is a world in which not only all outsiders, but all television, music, movies and books are shunned. So what you are taught is literally the only truth you know.
And that is why, as toxic and harmful as they can certainly be, whenever I deal with Christian fundamentalists I bear in mind Jesus’ “Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do.” Because I know how true that is.
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-- And this woman is still a Christian. I can kind of understand it. After I realized that the fundies were completely wack, I still wanted "church" for a while. I still wanted there to be a benevolent god somewhere. But I suppose I was one of the "lucky" ones that finally had to admit that the idea of god was just as absurd as the rest of the bullshit. Partly because it doesn't make sense, and partly because . . . if there WAS a god, why does he allow his preachers and priests to be some of the most evil people on the planet? And why do they all fight among themselves over who is worshiping the imaginary friend the right way?
Fundamentalism is scary - can I get an AMEN, brothers and sistahs?
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
