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Godly Christians: Don’t stop at World Vision! Keep going!

by in Fundamentalism

Dear Warriors for Christ:

Yesterday it was disclosed that 10,000 God-fearing Christians abandoned their sponsored children when World Vision USA made the abominable choice to allow for the hiring of married gay employees.

Congratulations, brothers and sisters! By withdrawing your financial support of children in need, you have shown the world what the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ really looks like! Yes, it hurts not to give. But sometimes that is the price we must pay.

Speaking of  how we spend our money, let’s keep the pressure on! Our unswerving Godly convictions demand that we continue to boycott all companies and organizations that support gay marriage. Such companies include: Starbucks, General Mills, Costco, Kraft, Levi’s, Nike, Gap, Target, Campbell’s, Pepsi, Coke, Oreo, Ben & Jerry’s, Nordstrom, Sears, J.C. Penney, Macy’s, Chevron, Shell, BP, 3M, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Nissan, Toyota, Volkswagen, Comcast, Sony, Walt Disney, Time Warner, Viacom, Hallmark, Kellogg’s, Land O’Lakes, Safeway, Hershey, Mattel, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, DuPont, GE, Whirlpool, Home Depot, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Staples, Office Depot, Walgreens, OfficeMax, Crate and Barrel, Kodak, Lexmark, and Xerox.

Refraining from spending with these companies should not prove too difficult for you, for surely you own no credit card issued by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. (Nor, of course, do you have any money in or with Citigroup, J.P. Morgan,… [Read more…] about Godly Christians: Don’t stop at World Vision! Keep going!

Al Mohler Does It Again

by Don M. Burrows in Fundamentalism, Uncategorized

If Jesus taught that what comes out of a man defiles him, surely the blatant inaccuracies and lies peddled by many of his most ardent followers must concern him at least a little, especially when they are done in connection with the Bible.

But such was the case yet again recently when Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship seminary, was asked at the SBC’s recent convention to give his “succinct” and “Biblical” view of homosexuality. As per usual when Mohler opens his mouth, what he claims to be the case is almost precisely opposite what any mainstream scholar on the topic would tell you.… [Read more…] about Al Mohler Does It Again

The brain-washing, fear-inducing world of the fundamentalism I knew

by in Fundamentalism

Sometimes people ask me why I became an Unfundamentalist. Well, the main reason is that I know what real fundamentalism is like. That’s because I was raised in an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) church, home, and school.

In that environment, there was always an intense focus on the filthy rags verse. (All of us have become like one who is unclean / and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags / we all shrivel up like a leaf / and like the wind our sins sweep us away. Isaiah 64:6.) We were indoctrinated to believe that we were completely worthless in the eyes of God, and this is how we came to view everyone else, too–which leads to the hubris and judgmentalism so common to fundamentalism.

We were taught that we were dirt: undeserving, untrustworthy, deserving only of punishment. IFB humility is expressed as: “I don’t deserve God’s love; I don’t deserve God’s blessing; I’m so lucky that He doesn’t just strike me dead right here this very instant, because I am so evil and full of vile sin.”

We were taught that Satan will take every opportunity to creep in and trick us away from “the narrow path.” Questions, doubt, and sin were of the Devil, evidence of weak faith, or of no faith at all. If you struggled with sin of any kind, then maybe you weren’t really a Christian after all. Maybe you needed to pray the sinner’s prayer again, and really ask Jesus to come into your heart and forgive you–and this time really mean it.… [Read more…] about The brain-washing, fear-inducing world of the fundamentalism I knew