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From: "Sharon Mooney"
To: "ed babinski"
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:35 PM
Subject: After reading the first part of your testimony - you were a
religious crackpot
wow
Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists, page 209
by Edward T. Babinski
"If it Wasn't for Agnosticism..."
"...My history teacher was apparently the only evangelical teacher in my
public high school, and quite unashamed of the fact. Besides the New
Testament, he plied me with gruesomely illustrated miniature Christian comic
book published by the Chick tract organization, with titles such as This Was
Your Life, A Demon's Nightmare, and The Gay Blade. I also read various books
he would give me from time to time, such as Richard Wurmbrand's Tortured for
Christ and Brother Andrew's God Smuggler. They were about people in
communist countries who were tortured for boldly expressing their beliefs,
and/or for smuggling Bibles into their countries. I ate them up
wholeheartedly, and one night I even recall getting into a tizzy with my
mother after declaring that I too would like to try and smuggle Bibles into
Communist countries. She called my dad and asked him to try and talk some
sense into me. I recall that I cried over the fact that my parents were
pressuring me to avoid what was perhaps my "calling" in life. After all,
were they not good Catholics? Did they not believe the promises in the
Gospels? Was not serving God the most important part of being a Christian,
even if it meant risking pain and death to "spread the good news"?
As my knowledge of Christian doctrine grew, so did my fears that many of my
friends and relatives were headed for eternal destruction, not to mention
just about everyone I saw in person, on television, heard speaking on the
radio, or read about. I prayed for the salvation of specific people and for
hordes of humanity, like all the atheists in Communist China, not to mention
all the dozens of toll booth operators I asked God to "save." It was very di
fficult at that time to refrain from handing a toll booth operator a tract
(with the money inside of course), since their outstretched hand was waiting
to be filled...."
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But in all sincerity, this is the same person who was nominated "Anti-Christ
for a Day" once having more enthusiasm for his beliefs than many Christians
I know of.
Ed Babinski: Nominated ``Anti-Christ for a Day"
http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/antichr.html
How could such a "Good Christian" go so bad?
I too wholeheartedly went through the desperation to "get Bibles spread
around the world" phase too, and not very long ago either.. I was ASHAMED of
my fellow brethren, for their lack of enthusiasm... their lack of
passion..... if Christians were sincerely believing in the dogma they
advocate, they'd be excited to spread Bibles like that, the message in the
Gospels was "such an urgent urgency". They don't have what it takes. Most
haven't even read their Bible, to spread knowledge of it, to "the lost" and
"unsaved".
http://www.fundamentalists-anonymous.org/testimonies/newspapr.html
Newspaper article about my work for the Lord (and the Bible Foundation)
That smile on my face, was only possible through the power of the Holy
Spirit!
PRAISE THE LORD. *smile* (I won't put these guys down... Jerry Kingery, the
President of the Bible Foundation is a sincere person, and everything they
do is non-profit and all-volunteer... not like those big, wealthy preachers
I so resented all my life, stealing from the poor, to make themselves rich.)
B.F. sends used, donated Bibles around the world, to people who don't have
one... when I first got involved with them, I drop-shipped a box of about
100 new Bibles to them... I was on fire for the Lord. The Holy Spirit was
working miracles in me. When I became drawn into this really extremist form
of fundamentalism -- I gave all my time, energy, effort, money --- you name
it -- I gave it. I was ready to lay down my life, for my beliefs.
I found it a shame though while associating with the majority of Christians,
after reading the trials and hardships faced by people in earlier times, how
they were forbidden access to the scriptures... some even died for sake of
their desire to know the scriptures (making it possible for the common
people to have access to them.. translating the scriptures)... and yet these
modern Christians, -- mainly Fundamentalists -- they can buy a copy now in
their local dime store for a dollar --- and they take it for granted... the
preachers can beg them, and it's next to impossible to get them to actually
read it --- there's nothing to fear about any of them finding error in a
book THEY'VE NEVER ACTUALLY READ --- it's something they tote to church on
Sunday Mornings, to show off --- hoping everybody will think they're a
"fervent Christian, on fire for the Lord" and regularly reading the "Good
Book".
Info on Ed's Book located at:
http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/controversial_book.html
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