Christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the Dark Ages

[Luddly Neddite]

I don't believe its terminal.

There have always been people who fought against equality and education and there have always been people who fight for freedom and progress.

And, its always the freedom and progress what wins.

Well, except for places like Uganda.

And the RED welfare states.

 

[hangover]

christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the dark ages

amen!

Too bad! but some must learn everything the hard way!!!! and you????????AMERICA=IN GOD WE TRUST! ONE NATION UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. AMERICA without GOD = another Sodom and Gomorrah, to go that direction is to ask for the same judgments that fell on Sodom.

Your holier than thou condemnation of others brings the same judgement on you. You are to be pitied. You think you are saved, only to find that you are a worker of iniquity.

 

[GISMYS]

amen!

Too bad! but some must learn everything the hard way!!!! and you????????AMERICA=IN GOD WE TRUST! ONE NATION UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. AMERICA without GOD = another Sodom and Gomorrah, to go that direction is to ask for the same judgments that fell on Sodom.

Your holier than thou condemnation of others brings the same judgement on you. You are to be pitied. You think you are saved, only to find that you are a worker of iniquity.

GOOD OR EVIL,RIGHT OR WRONG, to live in light or darkness=YOU get to choose.

 

[Avatar4321]

So seeking truth, hard work, being honest and kind are driving us into the dark ages. Who knew?

 

[Avatar4321]

amen!

Too bad! but some must learn everything the hard way!!!! and you????????AMERICA=IN GOD WE TRUST! ONE NATION UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. AMERICA without GOD = another Sodom and Gomorrah, to go that direction is to ask for the same judgments that fell on Sodom.

Your holier than thou condemnation of others brings the same judgement on you. You are to be pitied. You think you are saved, only to find that you are a worker of iniquity.

Not much room to talk here...

 

[Avatar4321]

I don't believe its terminal.

There have always been people who fought against equality and education and there have always been people who fight for freedom and progress.

And, its always the freedom and progress what wins.

Well, except for places like Uganda.

Which is precisely why conservativism is going to win. Because freedom always wins.

 

[koshergrl]

Now the good news!!

An Oxford University researcher and author specializing in neuroscience has suggested that one day religious fundamentalism may be treated as a curable mental illness.

LiveLeak.com - Religious Fundamentalism 'May Be Categorised As Mental Illness & Cured By Science'

Yeah we've already had nutcases in here pushing that agenda.

That's how the Nazis legitimized killing people, too. First pretend there's something wrong with them...criminalize them, make their *sort* either criminal, or sick...either way, lock them up (or just *euthanize*). The point is to identify them as defective, sub par, and not worthy of human rights.

 

[DriftingSand]

Christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the Dark Ages

Interestingly, it was biblical Christians who brought mankind OUT of the dark ages. If we're currently headed back to the dark ages it's because of folks rejection of Christ and Christianity. Christ is the Light of the World ... without Him we're left with darkness.

 

[hangover]

So seeking truth, hard work, being honest and kind are driving us into the dark ages. Who knew?

Everybody knew...you're full of shit. You don't seek truth, you perpetrate lies that you are honest, while deceiving others that you are kind, when you seek to destroy SS and Medicare in order to throw the elderly out in the street, and destroy food stamps to deny food to hungry children. Like the antichrist, you pretend to be compassionate and loving, but your fruits are rotten.

 

[hangover]

Too bad! but some must learn everything the hard way!!!! and you????????AMERICA=IN GOD WE TRUST! ONE NATION UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. AMERICA without GOD = another Sodom and Gomorrah, to go that direction is to ask for the same judgments that fell on Sodom.

Your holier than thou condemnation of others brings the same judgement on you. You are to be pitied. You think you are saved, only to find that you are a worker of iniquity.

GOOD OR EVIL,RIGHT OR WRONG, to live in light or darkness=YOU get to choose.

You will not be able to ignore your iniquity when you stand to answer for your crimes against God. You only think you will get a free pass. Surprise!

 

[GISMYS]

Your holier than thou condemnation of others brings the same judgement on you. You are to be pitied. You think you are saved, only to find that you are a worker of iniquity.

GOOD OR EVIL,RIGHT OR WRONG, to live in light or darkness=YOU get to choose.

You will not be able to ignore your iniquity when you stand to answer for your crimes against God. You only think you will get a free pass. Surprise!

If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us. 1 John 1:8-10

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

America has an infection. Whether it is terminal remains to be seen. The infection is that of anti-intellectualism, a steadfast refusal to acknowledge that one’s worldview is mutable, a worldview in which facts are only facts if they fit that worldview, and that anyone who disagrees with a Christian fundamentalist worldview is an “enemy” of God. The infection has taken hold in conservative politics, where it has spread to a significant portion of the American population, and even into a significant amount of the Canadian population. In Katherine Stewart’s article in the Guardian entitled “How Christian Fundamentalism Feeds Into the Toxic Partisanship of US Politics,” Stewart notes:

1. Erosion of education — escalating attacks on teachers as bad citizens, teachers’ unions as greedy “takers”, the evolution vs. creationism debate, resistance to stem cell research (or any kind of scientific research that conflicts with their Biblical worldview), fundamentalist emphasis on voucher system to create taxpayer funded fundamentalist schools, fear of a changing, increasingly pluralistic society (the current face of which is the extraordinary power fundamentalists give to the LGBT community as the force eroding American morality and bringing down the entire nation), and a negative economy which is generating public support by those who consider themselves members of the Religious Right by demonizing public education as a “liberal conspiracy” to take their children away from God.

2. Biblical Literalism: The Bible is the foundation of “truth,” from science to social interactions, and anything that disagrees with a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible is a product of Satanic manipulation, of which the by-product of Satan is secularism.

3. Oversimplification: The idea that there is a clear right and wrong (based on Biblical laws, or cherry-picked verses), the universe is either moral or immoral, and that so-called “assaults” on religious “freedom” of fundamentalists signify an invisible war between the forces of God (or “good”) and the forces of Satan (or “evil”).

Christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the Dark Ages


The lack of empirical education is eroding American society in favor of a “faith based” education that has nothing whatsoever to do with facts that threaten their worldview. Liberty is something they interpret as the freedom to live in a society based solely on their Biblical worldview. Freedom of religion for others in an inclusive society is anathema to them, because such freedom threatens to sideline them to the fringes. Individual liberty does not exist except for them, because they have an inherent distrust of the individual to make reasonable decisions, unless those decisions are based on their interpretation of Scripture. Thus, mainstream Christians are not their brethren; mainstream Christians are simply misinformed individuals who have deluded themselves into believing they are of the family of Christ, and only the clear lens of fundamentalism can see that mainstream Christians have been deceived by the enemy of God which is secular society.

The sole aim of fundamentalists is to “obey” God in creating conditions favorable to the return of Christ–and this one thought, this one design drives American foreign policy with Israel (they believe that when the Jews all return to Israel and the 3rd temple is rebuilt that Christ will return, (but not without sacrificing 2/3 of the Jewish people in the process), then all the remaining Jews will become Christians. American fundamentalists are only interested in Jewish people and Israel insofar as it furthers the return of Jesus Christ. That is all.

Religious fundamentalism is a common and formidable element of conservative reactionaryism.

As is the case with conservative reactionaries in general, religious fundamentalists fear change, diversity, and expressions of individual liberty – particularly when the religious right perceives change as a ‘threat’ to their religious dogma.

And of course secular conservatives are eager to exploit and take advantage of this, fanning the flames of fundamentalists’ fears with lies, contrivances, and myths such as a ‘war on Christianity,’ when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.

Maintaining separation of church and state as intended by the Framers and abiding by the Constitution’s case law with regard to when religion is and is not appropriate in government is not ‘making war’ on religion.

 

[rdean]

christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the dark ages

amen!

Too bad! but some must learn everything the hard way!!!! and you????????AMERICA=IN GOD WE TRUST! ONE NATION UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. AMERICA without GOD = another Sodom and Gomorrah, to go that direction is to ask for the same judgments that fell on Sodom.

It's not "one nation" under God. Republican Christians hate every minority. Blacks, gays, Hispanics and so on. They are not good people. Some may be. Very few.

 

[Mr. H.]

Why are the Liberties of belief, thought, and expression reserved for only the Liberal-minded of this nation?

 

[theliq]

Now the good news!!

An Oxford University researcher and author specializing in neuroscience has suggested that one day religious fundamentalism may be treated as a curable mental illness.

LiveLeak.com - Religious Fundamentalism 'May Be Categorised As Mental Illness & Cured By Science'

Will that work on envirowhackaloons too?

POOR OLD STUPID WESTWANKERWALL IS ALWAYS THE LOOOOOSSSSSSER IN EVERY DEBATE....pathetic SOD

 

[theliq]

amen!

Too bad! but some must learn everything the hard way!!!! and you????????AMERICA=IN GOD WE TRUST! ONE NATION UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. AMERICA without GOD = another Sodom and Gomorrah, to go that direction is to ask for the same judgments that fell on Sodom.

Your holier than thou condemnation of others brings the same judgement on you. You are to be pitied. You think you are saved, only to find that you are a worker of iniquity.

I DON'T AGREE WITH YOU OR YOUR PREMISE AT ALL............didn't realize that you were such a BIGOT,just sayin steve

 

[Barb]

Are you saying they ARE bitter clingers?

 

[koshergrl]

christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the dark ages

amen!

The Dark Ages, where the Church held sway and anyone who did not toe the Church line was excommunicated, imprisoned, and killed. Very similar state to what fundamentalist Islamic countries are in right now.

The primary difference is that the church led people out of the Dark Ages.

While Islam and progressivism lead people into it.

 

[koshergrl]

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Bode, try reading a little bit about the things you feel compelled to spout off about. Your sad lack of education, particularly HISTORICAL education, is scary.

 

[Barb]

amen!

The Dark Ages, where the Church held sway and anyone who did not toe the Church line was excommunicated, imprisoned, and killed. Very similar state to what fundamentalist Islamic countries are in right now.

The primary difference is that the church led people out of the Dark Ages.

While Islam and progressivism lead people into it.

If it weren't for Islam, the west wouldn't have HAD an enlightenment, you dizzy bitch