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What do fundamentalists think about moderates?
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RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates?
(September 14, 2017 at 4:12 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(September 14, 2017 at 4:08 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: I was raised funditard Pentecostal.  I heard this a LOT.  
OUR group had it right.  The Bible (the King James Protestant Bible, mind you) was literally written by God.  They believed Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were Apostles who walked with Jesus and wrote everything down.  The Bible was infallible, and questioning anything in it could send you to hell.  There were millions of people who were following false doctrines and false prophets.  One could not embrace the world (tv, radio, movies, plays, dancing, most modern fiction) during the week and pretend to be holy on Sunday.   People who did this were going to get a shock when they were sent to hell.
   The rest of the world was evil and sinful.  Other churches had it wrong.  Catholics were idol-worshipers.  Other religions were created by the devil.  The devil was winning.  Only WE were pure and holy.
    It was a very very very very very sick environment.

How the fuck can the devil be winning if the god is all powerful and all knowing?

It points to the god wanting the devil to win.
I learned not to ask questions like that by the time I was seven.  Questions were met with scorn and ostracism and a lot of "I'll pray for your lack of faith".
(September 14, 2017 at 4:19 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
(September 14, 2017 at 4:08 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: I was raised funditard Pentecostal.  I heard this a LOT.  
OUR group had it right.  The Bible (the King James Protestant Bible, mind you) was literally written by God.  They believed Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were Apostles who walked with Jesus and wrote everything down.  The Bible was infallible, and questioning anything in it could send you to hell.  There were millions of people who were following false doctrines and false prophets.  One could not embrace the world (tv, radio, movies, plays, dancing, most modern fiction) during the week and pretend to be holy on Sunday.   People who did this were going to get a shock when they were sent to hell.
   The rest of the world was evil and sinful.  Other churches had it wrong.  Catholics were idol-worshipers.  Other religions were created by the devil.  The devil was winning.  Only WE were pure and holy.
    It was a very very very very very sick environment.

Sounds like a wonderful environment for inbreeding. No one outside the church would meet criteria to be allowed procreation.
Groups actually traveled to revivals and camp meetings to "worship" together.  Many people met future spouses that way.

The schools were church schools.  There was a college, but it was only to train preachers and worship leaders.  They absolutely forbade any of their members to attend secular schools, and nobody needed a college degree.  I'm so grateful that we moved away.

(September 14, 2017 at 7:41 pm)Succubus Wrote:
(September 14, 2017 at 10:54 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Depends on the fundamentalist I guess

There is a very strong clue in the title. "Fundamentalist"!

(September 14, 2017 at 1:33 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Fundies ruin it for everyone, themselves first of all.  They inherently distrust their own powers of perception and insight so they cling to what is claimed to be authoritative.  Then, pumped up by their slavish devotion to authority, they then regard everyone who hasn't fallen into line with the authority they have chosen and lash out with great conviction and (borrowed) authority.

The endless enigma. Are those people morons because they are fundies, or are they fundies because they are morons?

They are brainwashed from an early age and isolated.  They are told that only THEY are going to heaven, and that the world is evil.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by vorlon13 - September 14, 2017 at 10:43 am
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by vorlon13 - September 14, 2017 at 10:48 am
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by vorlon13 - September 14, 2017 at 10:51 am
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by vorlon13 - September 14, 2017 at 10:55 am
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by Athene - September 14, 2017 at 12:35 pm
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by drfuzzy - September 14, 2017 at 4:08 pm
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by brewer - September 14, 2017 at 4:19 pm
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by drfuzzy - September 14, 2017 at 9:20 pm
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by brewer - September 14, 2017 at 9:51 pm
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by brewer - September 17, 2017 at 6:44 pm
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by Athene - September 14, 2017 at 4:30 pm
RE: What do fundamentalists think about moderates? - by Athene - September 14, 2017 at 5:52 pm

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