The love toward the unbelievers!

[Ziploc Surprise]

From my experience as a former Christian Fundamentalist (Cf) this is more of a background noise that sneaks in every now and then. Most cf’s are so deluded they don’t know how deluded they are. Others hear the noise more loudly but choose to make a loud noise themselves to drown out the unwanted sound.

There is doctrine they teach lay people regarding “the helmet of salvation” Ephesians 6:17 http://www.wordlibrary.co.uk/article.php?id=102 according to the article mentioned above “The hope of salvation is for the head. It covers our minds, intellect or reasoning. "

As it was explained to me it’s purpose was to block out sound and keep you focused. Don’t let the Evil one (in this case the Atheists) deceive you; put on your helmet. In other words the concept of ignoring anything that may cause them to question things is in their doctrine.

BTW they start teaching this particular doctrine at a young age. It usually involves attaching the concepts to something concrete. Children make little suits of armor and walk around in them. Anyone want to puke yet?
I couldn't find a puke smiley face thingy so I'll use this one

They actually parade around in physical representations of the concious desicion to be ignorant!

Wow

Pretty much. Yep.

BTW there is a more recent interpretation of the "armor" scripture. It deals with self esteem issues. it's no where near as popular as the one I mentioned in my last post. What you ignore in these cases are people who tell you that you are worthless etc. and try to hurt you because they themselves have poor self esteem. Your ability to evaluate (social) information stems from a deep understanding of who you are and your value as a person. It never occurred to me to teach my children to be ignorant. I always encouraged them to question and I did the evil thing...I made sure they understood that Creationism was bogus. Perhaps that's why they aren't cf's. I taught them the self esteem thing.

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Children make little suits of armor and walk around in them. Anyone want to puke yet?

You mean something like this? http://boingboing.net/2006/08/26/armor-o...ds-pa.html

ah, yes.

That was funny as shit.