Top Ten Signs You Are a Fundamentalist Christian
By brothertuck
@brothertuck (1257)
United States
September 10, 2009 4:03pm CST
Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
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@rmorefield (941)
• United States
10 Sep 09
This sounds exactly like the church that I was raised in. I left it quite a few years ago, and now have my own beliefs. It is a mixture of many different religions. I just can't believe that there are so many religions out there, and only one right one. I think they are all right. And yes, I believe in science. I am actually a Biology major and am working on my degree in anesthesiology.
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@brothertuck (1257)
• United States
11 Sep 09
My view of religion is that it is like a mountain.
You can have many paths that lead to the peak.
None is really wrong and none is really right, they are just different.
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@rmorefield (941)
• United States
11 Sep 09
Well, all religions worship some form of deity. Many of them are almost parallel to each other. Take for instance my mother's Christian religion and my father's Lakota background. Both religions worship the same deity. In one, He is called God. In the other, He is called the Great Spirit. Both religions have a saviour. One is Jesus, the other is the White Buffalo Calf Woman. Both of these saviours came to people and told them that there would be total peace when they came back to Earth to dwell. Both religions beleive that any form of magick is wrong....they are in fact afraid of it.
Cristianity and Wicca. The Easter egg tradition was actually started as a pagan tradition, I think as a form of celebrating the arrival of springtime. Christians have celebrated with the Maypole throughout history. That, too, started as a pagan tradition.
Throughout history, one religion has fed into another religion, and then another, and then another. In my opinion, no one has a right to tell anyone else that their beliefs are wrong because of this. I think that any type of religion is a very personal thing that is between the individual and their spirituality. The main reason why I left the church that I was raised in is because they told me that the people who didn't hold the same beliefs as they would go to "Hell". My respone was, there are way too many different religions and way too many people in the world for that to happen. They said that the people would be saved if we just "spread the word". Well, I don't buy that. I think that we can all be saved if we try to live the best lives possible. I couldn't belong to a church that was so predjudiced. I had so many questions, and they simply told me that I should not ask any. They thought that it was a sin to ask questions. I think it was just because they did not want to have their members wondering if they were being told a bunch of "bull". You can't control someone if they have the ability to think for themselves.
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@brothertuck (1257)
• United States
11 Sep 09
I have gotten pounced for years and I'm still standing.
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
11 Sep 09
People are trying to act Godly and feel they are more christian than most christians. The 10 points you outlined here exemplifies the burdens they place on themselves in everyday life. At the moment of birth, we are born naked but possess a natural dynamic force. As we grow older, we deplete this natural force by conforming to man-made virtues, ideals and principles. These artificial standards encumber and distract them as they become fanatics to their distorted teachings.
@pukaprat2 (442)
• United States
11 Sep 09
well what can i say to you is this. TerrorismFreedom.weebly.com that where I stand and soon many others will too.
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@matsulori (269)
• United States
11 Sep 09
I love what this guy has to say, and agree completely:
"We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity for love and compassion...
"This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or drama. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need. So long as we practice these in our daily lives, then no matter if we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in Buddha or God, or follow some other religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibiity, there is no doubt we will be happy."
~ Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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