Is God embarrased by fundamentalism?
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Fundamentalism to me is Gods way of showing that he has a sense of humor. To many people propose that they know what God wants us to live like. They have gone out of their way to make religion complicated. The only thing that Jesus taught is to be charitable, be hospitable, to love one another, and to trust in him. People need to find their own walk with God. Don't just take what a preacher says from the pulpit as Gospel.  The philosopher Plato said" The unquestioned life is a wasted life." It is the same with religion.
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Neither.  The most illicit thing for any fundamentalist believer is THINKING FOR YOURSELF.
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The term "fundies" is short for fundamentalists.  A fundamentalist is traditionally someone who takes the Bible literally and beats people (figuratively, of course) over the head with their beliefs.  The believe that the Bible is 100% the fundamental truth, and are very aggressive and (many times) hateful in conveying that "truth".  \n\nMelissa
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The idea of fundamentalism arose around this time. One aspect it regarded was the teaching of evolution in schools. One teacher was put on a trial, and it was actually quite famous, for teaching about evolution. It supposedly went against the teachings of Christianity and creationism.
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No, it is there for a good reason because christian fundamentalist are mental!!
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Actually, this question is easily answered by bible doctrine. NO, God cannot. There are many things God can't do. Who ever said God can do anything? God can't hate, at least not literally. God can only "hate" in the sense of an anthropopathic analogy, such as when He was said to "hate" Esau. God can't lie, break a promise, die, hurt, be sad, allow a saved person to enter Hell, allow an unsaved person to enter heaven, or fail to provide logistical grace support to a believer. God can't be unjust, wrong, weak,  stupid, not present, and He cannot change. He cannot fall in love( because He is love 24/7). \n\nBasically God cannot do anything that would violate His essence. His essence is Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Eternal Life, Love, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, And Truth. These 10 characteristics describe perfectly the 3 members of the Trinity, and no one else. I'm glad God is bound by who He is.\n\nYou don't need to defend yourself against Christian bashers. God is not worried about them or threatened by them, why should you be? Keep the Faith, Bro!
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No!!\nIf they really fear the implications of the existence of God, they would believe in God to avoid the implications!
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Do you really believe that God has any thing to fear about man.  Come on brother, think about it.  Remember when he was in front of Pilot and Herod.  They thought he should fear them too.\n  The only ones who have anything to fear with the coming of the Lord are the ones who wrap the poison of sin in the Bread of life, and try to feed it to His children.  And the ones that are so prideful that they cannot truly repent.
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I just have to say that that idea that God is going to smash certain people with his big toe really doesn't go over well with me!  That is not how I see God at all.  To me, God would be perfect in love and knowledge, and therefore he would know what is making people act and think the way they do, and he would love them - not "smash them with his big toe."  That just paints such a stupid picture of God.  It is irreverant in my opinion.  Sorry Mainworry, that's just how it strikes me.
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I don't think your mind is made up and I don't see this an attack on Christianity. You are perfectly entitled to ask this question and I see it as a serious one - well done, and thumbs up from me. Why are Christians soooooo insecure about their faith that they can't have it questionned? I'm agnostic and the reason for that is that I don't dismiss the idea of God entirely, I just think that too much dependency is on the Bible. But the Bible was written by a Man! and Man has a habit if distorting the Truth, sometimes unintentionally. Think of it this way: The Bible was written ina  different Age and different Language - neither of which we can fully comprehend. Supposing that the translations of the Bible got some words wrong and totally changed the Meaning of it? Think of the consequences - or look around you. Don't forget that doctrines are created by Man and not God ... and doctrines are Power. The Church has had that for a very long time ... but perhaps not for much longer.\n\nThanks for asking the question.
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I have friends who are fundamentalist, but at the same time do not push their views on other people, nor do they try to push their Bible's influence on the country.  The people who are fundamentalist, and at the same time trying to move their agenda into everyone else's life are the ones who are a plague on society.\n\nIt all depends on the individual.  The friends that I have are not cheating, or beating their kids and cheap in restraints.  My Brother and his Wife are about as fundamental as you can get and they are very much against the Neo Con agenda.
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this is the word of sean\n\n\n\nproof of bible is word of god is in the margin\n(do you think the fundamentalist christian will get this joke)
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Nah.  I tend to question any links between God and any religious organization that relies heavily on violent means to an end.  To me, if the basis for any religion is not the promotion of world peace, harmonious existence, and peace with nature, the religion is not a true reflection of God's will.
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I think it is possible. Not that they would not talk about God but in their actions they would deny him - and especially deny Jesus and the plan of Salvation.\n\nThere is an anecdote abou this:\n\nIn front of a church sits a man poorly dressed crying. Jesus approaches him and asks him why is he crying. The man tells him:\n"They won't let me in". Jesus told him: "don't worry son, they won't let me in either."
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He feared to displease God.
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# 1 - You are not a fundamentalist.  Your points regarding the geocentric interpretation of the Bible, that it only means that the Earth is in the center of God's universe, but not the physical universe.\n\nso, a fundamentalist Christian would say, its in the Bible that the Earth is in the center of the solar system and that the telescope is the work of the devil to separate man from God\n\ntraditionally in modern times it means someone who rejects Evolution of man from ape because it differs with God making man with no intermediate steps - like evolution.\n\nThe guy on here with the kayak has quoted Genesis where it says that the world was created before the start of the six days, so this becomes a grey area also for me,\n\nso the Fundamentalist is someone who touts the line God made man in six literal 24 hour days, rejecting Genesis chapter 1. I think you have said that you believe this, but the man in the kayak will use the bible to prove you wrong, and I'm willing to believe he would win that debate.  Also, the 24 hour thing is an Egyptian design, but anyhow,\n\nThose two things are pretty much pre-requisite.\n\nScience and Religion say a baby's life starts at conception, so social policy on abortion where the Christian believes abortion is wrong is ok,\n\nbut most normal people agree that you can be on religious grounds and have a position that abortion must be legal, for the reason that the mothers life is in danger,\n\nSo the third criterium of fundamentalist Christian is the believe that all abortion must be made illegal, and the demand on government of such, \n\nThe fourth criterium is on homosexuality.  We hear from most normal Christians that God loves the sinner, but hates the sin. The normal Christian will agree that all sin is pretty much the same and God doesn't hate anyone.\nThe fundamentalist believes that God hates homosexuals.  We see people who carry signs that say God hates fags.  This qualifies them as fundamentalists.\n\nSo as a general rule, a fundamentalist Christian is someone who a) believes the Earth is the center of the physical universe, because of the Bible, b) believes God made the Earth in six literal 24 hour days (in spite of the Bible), c) believes that all abortion must be made illegal and stopped, and d) believes that God hates homosexuals.\n\nIn general if the person has one, it is assumed by ignorant non fundamentalist Christians that the person is of the believe of all four.  This is sheer stupidity and shows lack of willingness to talk to someone to understand the whole person.\n\nThis same mistake is made by fundamentalists, who assume that all Evolutionists believe the big bang occurred, or that all atheists believe in both the big bang and evolution, this is not true.  \n\nI for one do not believe the Big bang occured.\n\nI really do enjoy conversations with you and invite you to email me or Instant Message me because I truely do desire a real conversation with you out of answers,\n\ndarwin_spartacus@yahoo.com
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The trouble with parodying Christian fundamentalists is that the reality is every bit as bad as the parody... in fact, probably worse!  :-/