RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates?
September 14, 2017 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2017 at 1:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Fundamentalists loath sunday christians, cafeteria christians, and christian tourists. This is a small and mostly benign sampling of the derisives common and commonly understood by fundamentalist culture. Their position on those christians is demonstrated plainly in the very act of manufacturing derisives.
No one has to ask what a man on a street corner shouting about the problems with the darkies thinks about black people. Similarly, there's no need to ask what fundamentalists shouting about the problems of sunday christians think of moderate christians. The cheif problem, in both cases, is that they are darkies, or sunday christians. Such is self stated and explicit in derision.
Somehow™, however, the nature of those people as "religious" people seems to effectively cover the fact that their derision is not religious in nature, but a simple expression of common human bigotry radiating out in all directions to anyone not like the bigot themselves. The Other Guy™ doesn't hate the gays...at least not enough, for the gay hating christian. The secular christen does not show enough deference to the One True God for the Christian Dominionist. The permissive is not enough of a busybody for the men who would watch you pee.
They contend that it is their faith that propels them to derision and bigotry and loathing, but I don't think that they understand their own motivations - as usual. The permissiveness and decency of other christians in opposition to their own positions suggests that their indecency is not, in point of fact, attributable to god or a christian faith (true or otherwise).... but solely to themselves. Their condemnation of others who fail to adequately engage in their own preferred bigotries is a way of turning indecency to virtue and piety. A defense of their own self image as good people. The other guys have to be the assholes...because if they aren't........than the fundamentalists must be.
No one has to ask what a man on a street corner shouting about the problems with the darkies thinks about black people. Similarly, there's no need to ask what fundamentalists shouting about the problems of sunday christians think of moderate christians. The cheif problem, in both cases, is that they are darkies, or sunday christians. Such is self stated and explicit in derision.
Somehow™, however, the nature of those people as "religious" people seems to effectively cover the fact that their derision is not religious in nature, but a simple expression of common human bigotry radiating out in all directions to anyone not like the bigot themselves. The Other Guy™ doesn't hate the gays...at least not enough, for the gay hating christian. The secular christen does not show enough deference to the One True God for the Christian Dominionist. The permissive is not enough of a busybody for the men who would watch you pee.
They contend that it is their faith that propels them to derision and bigotry and loathing, but I don't think that they understand their own motivations - as usual. The permissiveness and decency of other christians in opposition to their own positions suggests that their indecency is not, in point of fact, attributable to god or a christian faith (true or otherwise).... but solely to themselves. Their condemnation of others who fail to adequately engage in their own preferred bigotries is a way of turning indecency to virtue and piety. A defense of their own self image as good people. The other guys have to be the assholes...because if they aren't........than the fundamentalists must be.
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