Five Cool Things Fundies Should Know About Christianity.

[Scuba]

This is a good read, impossible to capture in just four paragraphs. Enjoy.

http://weoccupyjesus.org/2013/10/03/five-cool-things-fundies-should-know-about-christianity/

5. GOD IS NOT A MALE. Despite how much we may want to see God as a dude, he just isn’t. (And for all you lovely atheists reading along, of course I mean “the God of Christian Tradition” is not nor should have ever been thought to be a dude, in theory). God is described throughout the scriptures and church history to be a spirit, to be wholly (holy) other than us (i.e., God doesn’t have a body). Both Thomas Aquinas (part 1, question 3, article 1) and Saint Augustine (Confessions, book 7) will back me up on that one. The use of masculine verbiage is often allegorical. Feminine, or motherly traits are also attributed to God in Scripture. Psalms 123 uses the term mistress, Luke 15 describes God like a housewife, Hosea like a mother, and so on.


Jesus spelled backwards sounds like sausage.
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4. THE BIBLE IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY. If you think to yourself, “Either believe all of the Bible or none of it at all,” then you are “literally” insane if you mean “believe all of the Bible literally.” But honestly, most fundies don’t actually think the Bible is to be taken in such a way; they only see the parts they want to see as literal. For example, they may be fine thinking God created the Earth in six literal days, but they interpret “Gog and Magog” in the Book of Revelations metaphorically as “China and Russia.” They may say homosexuals should literally be put to death (or at least be banned from their Applebees after church), but Song of Solomon is just a metaphor for Christ’s love for his church (and not about how awesome premarital oral sex can be).

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3. THE BIBLE ISN’T ANTI-GAY. For number 3, I’d love to expound on my own thoughts, but Matthew Vines from reformationproject.org has a video that verbalized this position perfectly. PERFECTLY. “Literally”. Watch it if you want to become a better human being. If you watch it and you have any doubts remaining, only God (or violent re-education camps) could change your mind.

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1. BEING “SAVED” ISN’T JUST FOR CHRISTIANS. When backed into a corner on this issue, fundies seem to pull out a bunch of exceptions. Babies get a free pass because they are innocent, even though in the next breath they resort to language of original sin and how we are all enemies of God until we accept Jesus. Those people who never heard of Jesus? They might (keyword: might) get into Heaven because they are ignorant of the truth, therefore they are only judged by what they know. This creates the awkward issue where it’s actually beneficial to shut up and not tell them anything at all about Jesus. It might send them to Hell if they reject him. Even more awkward is that If you take away this exception then you admit Jesus’ very existence is an excuse for God to fry most of the world. Either that or God made the greatest logistical error of all time.

[cbayer]

1. I have scanned it and will read entirely later, but I really like it and the website.

Thanks so much!

[hrmjustin]

2. I have no problem with anyone wanting to say God has a gender or not. I call God Father because

the Gospels say Jesus did.


Great post my friend.

[dimbear]

3. As an intellectual exercise, imagine a conservative or fundamentalist wrote a piece for us.

How would it be different? Now, with that piece in your mind, imagine Americans vote to choose one or the other.