Why is the fundamentalist position?

Question

Believe in (fill in the blank) or you go to hell

Answer 1

Leaning over everybody else while hitting them over the head with bibles.

"Believe in - what I tell you to believe - or go to hell."

Answer 2

It is related to the Revival movement of the 19th century.
You will recall that during the industrial revolution that working conditions were pretty bad world wide. This led to the development of the Socialist movement from roots in the secular liberal democracy movement of the 18th century (not today's idea of liberal). Socialism didn't catch on as strongly in America as it did in Europe because Americans were incredibly diverse and held onto their culture more strongly (The Irish and Italians will still talk about it today). Americans saw themselves as more than just their job and brought their culture into the work place. Workers in Europe were more culturally homogenous within their countries and therefore attached themselves more strongly to the secular socialist movement.

The culture of earlier colonial America included religious zealotry from immigrants who sought a "house on the hill" like the witch burning Puritans. Some of this culture spilled out into the south and when the Industrial Revolution threatened individual identity, American culture went to religion rather than political philosophy for a solution. The revival movement saw a splintering of Christianity most prevalent in the south. Today America is home to more forms of Christianity than any other country. Modern American religious culture has a little bit of the Puritan zealotry coupled with the paranoia against secular politics stemming from all of these movements. This is why American Christianity is more reactionary when it comes to this sort of thing.

Such was always the case. The early schism of Arianism vs. Orthodoxy created some very strong language in the 4th century. If you read anything concerning the Trinity from a Catholic source you will see that it is very reactionary against any other belief (labeled mortal heresies).

It seems that fundamentalism has its roots as a reaction to actual or perceived threats. In the case of Trinity doctrine, it was the Arian heresy. In the case of American fundamentalism, it was American culture left over from the Industrial Revolution. This is why religious doctrine becomes strong and can even transform into zealotry (sometimes violent).

Answer 3

The proposition is a distortion. It implies that the preexisting condition is neutral and destiny is determined by a choice, which if you get wrong you are punished.

A more biblical representation of our condition is that we are all destined for punishment and currently under punishment (John 3:36). God's wrath abides on our world, our cultures and individuals. But there is an escape, Christ came to procure the escape. The Gospel is good news, because it is the message of our escape from God's wrath.

To state the gospel from the negative is a more modern affectation, because we in the west tend to emphasize that everything is 'pretty good.' A clear look both inside of us and outside of us indicates that things are not good at all. We were made for better, we were made to be better. It reconciliation with our creator that begins our process of becoming what we were meant to be.

Answer 4

This is the nature of any Fundamentalist ideology - you would appreciate the memetic definition of "unique safety".

I'm going off the definition in wikipedia; that fundamentalism involves a rejection of modernity and an exclusive return to the 'roots' of an ideology as expressed in a religious text or a the founding of a movement.

Answer 5

Believe and Scriptural follow The Gospel of The Holy Bible.



God's opinion. None others, matter.


Have a great week.

Answer 6

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ with all of your heart mind soul and spirit or you go to hell.

BUT I WILL ADD,

The way you phrased it is somewhat impossible to answer.

My fill in the blank is a combination of various sentences.

There is more to it than just, Believe in ______, or you go to hell.

Answer 7

Position? As in a sexual position?

Are the even allowed to have sex?

Oooooh, sorry, I misread the question. It's believe in all my biblical nonesense, nonexistant deity, and mythological afterlife, or you go to Hell. There's also this one: read all my bible copy/paste excerpts or you to to Hell.

Answer 8

Fundies moronically believe the Bible is a science, history, biology and legal textbook.

Answer 9

Believe in ____________ or you will go to Hell.
Believe in TRUTH or you will go to hell.

Jesus said, I am the way, the TRUTH and the life.
Jesus also said that His Word was TRUTH.
The angel said about revelation, 'write these words, for they are TRUE and faithful'.

Answer 10

doggy style!