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Religions > Bible |
| User: |
"Craig Chilton" |
| Date: |
29 Nov 2003 06:40:35 PM |
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RESOURCE POST --- The TRUTH About "Fundies" |
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This is a regularly-refreshed Resource Post.
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The TRUTH About "Fundies"
There are two types of "fundies" in Christianity:
(1) NON-impositional fundamentalists who take most
of the Bible literally (i.e., all but the parts that are
clearly meant to be allegorical, or are likely so.) They
tend to be pretty well-versed, and thus knows what
the Bible contains... and what it does NOT contain.
For example, they know that it does NOT contain
so much as one word against abortion. And they
know that it does NOT contain ANY passage that
appoints ANYONE to be the ENFORCERS of its
precepts.
And they know that it DOES contain a COMMAND
by Jesus to His followers that they show love and
compassion to their neighbors. A command that is
second ONLY to the command that they FIRST love
God. This is a *clear* command, oft-repeated.
(Gal. 5:14, Matt. 22:37-40, Mark 12:31, Gal. 6:2,
Romans 13:8, and 13:9-10.)
Such fundamentalists usually live quiet and normal
lives, and are non-judgmental, fair-minded, and tolerant
people who mind their own business when it comes
to the private affairs of others. Almost never will a
buttinsky, busybody, or control freak be found among
them.
(2) The RRR Cultist, pseudo-Christian "fundie." This
denizen of the Religious Radical Right is a deluded
Christian at best, and *literally* a PSEUDO-Christian
at worst. They tend to be relatively uneducated when
compared to the general population. And their
seduction into this cult that infiltrates churches and
leaves its adherents in place *within* those churches,
was usually easily-accomplished, because the false
dogmas of the cult have great appeal to them. They
first are conned into thinking that abortion is wrong,
which is no big trick because it once was a topic
that (unfortunately) had a bad rep in society... back
when it was still illegal in most places, and women
were getting "back-alley" ones.
Many, if not most, of these "fundies" are quite
insecure people in their own lives, and the notion
that they can *control* people appeals to them, even
if only at the subconscious level. In fact, in most
such cases, it is *probably* at the subconscious level.
They are usually NOT particularly well-versed in the
Bible, but sometimes *seem* to be to others because
they've done a good job of learning the verses that
SEEM to be supportive of their deviant agenda (even
though NO passage actually DOES support them).
In other words, they practice "cafeteria theology" and
IGNORE passages that *condemn* their actions (such
as those cited above). It's pretty hard to seek to
impose immense hardship upon tens of millions of
women by denying the remedy of abortion to them,
which would disrupt their well-being and trash countless
of their future opportunities... WHILE claiming to show
love and compasion to their neighbors. And they are
so totally programmed that they would not THINK of
questioning their leaders regarding the false dogmas
of the RRR Cult. E.g., one will *never* be seen
asking James Dobson, D. James Kennedy, or Jerry
Falwell (to name 3 of the 8 or so leaders)... "WHERE
does the Bible instruct us, or authorize us, to attempt
to ENFORCE its precepts upon society?" That is
totally alien to the brainwashed and programmed
nature of cultists, and you'll never see it happen.
The pseudo-Christian "fundies" of the RRR Cult
are very destructive to Christianity as a whole, because
even though they comprise less than 2% of America's
Christians (and practically none of those in the rest of
the world), they cloak themselves in the mantle of
Christianity, and their high-profile antics and protesta-
tions give the false impression to much of society that
they are REPRESENTATIVE of Christians. While
nothing could be farther than the truth. 98% of U.S.
Christians BEHAVE in the manner of the TRUE
Christian "fundies" in part (1), above, even though
most of them are mainstream Christians and not
"fundies." SO -- Christianity is getting a VERY unfair
bad rap as a result of that growing misperception.
The RRR Cult "fundies," then, are dysfunctional,
control-freakish busybodies. Whether there's such
a thing as a "Buttinsky Gene," are whether its due
to ignorance, gullibility, or both, is immaterial. Their
agenda is sociopathic and their behavior is most
assuredly UN-Christian.
-- Craig Chilton
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