10 ways to discover whether you are a Fundie?

Question

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.

1You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of god

Of course you can steal it Jackie.

Answer 1

stick it to these nutters keep them questions coming

Answer 2

10. No, because I believe that other gods exist. It's just wrong for me to worship them.
9. No, because it's already been proven that we did NOT evolve from "other species", although our form has changed slightly over time. I do believe in the caveman, thank you.
8. No, because water can exist in three different forms: liquid (God), solid (Jesus) and air (Holy Spirit). If we believe that water can exist in three forms, but never lose its base components, then why can't God be the same way?
7. Nope, I realize that man is imperfect, and religion cannot be held accountable for the atrocities that MANKIND has committed, whether it's in the name of God, Allah, Buddha, or greed.
6. Yeah, it's too bad it's already been historically proven that Jesus, Mary and Joseph all lived. Tell me, if you had a choice between being thrown to the lions for "believing a lie", or living because you recanted, which would you choose? Many of those who were martyred SAW these things. Would you die for something that you just "made up"?
Besides, I have respect for people no matter WHAT they do or do not believe. I just wish people would respect others.
5. I believe that the earth could possibly be billions of years old. God's time is not our own. It could have happened slowly over billions of years, and probably did.
4. I do not have the right to judge whether anyone is or is not going to hell, except for myself. If I'm right, I'm going to Heaven. I can't speak for anyone else.
3. Actually, science has NOT disproven the existence of God. If anything, they've proven that many of the events in the Bible truly did happen. Science has just not been able to PROVE the existence of God. Not beyond a shadow of a doubt, anyway.
A person rolling on the floor speaking gibberish will make me think they're epileptic, not that they're speaking in tongues.
2. What are these statistics based on? I've seen many prayers answered. And when they HAVEN'T been, I asked for insight to understand why. So I saw what would have happened had they been answered.
1. See above. Where do you get your source for these "statistics"?

Damn, guess I'm just a Christian, and not a fundie. So disappointed.

Answer 3

"10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours."

I don't necessarily "deny" their existence. They just aren't the God of the Universe.

"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."

I don't feel insulted by that, I just worry about the lies that are being taught in public schools and the pressure put on people by the so-called "scientific community" in an effort to attempt to make Bible study and Christianity irrelevant. But in the great scheme of things, the creation-evolution topic takes a back seat to salvation every day of the week.


"8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God."

I don't laugh at anyone's religion. There's nothing funny about worshiping a false 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!"

Well, in Egypt God gave the way for death to pass over the door (hence "Passover"). The "cleansing of the land" in Joshua, yeah that was pretty darned grisly. For this one, I believe that God had his reasons and the people of the day were in agreement.

But to compare this to terrorisim is just wrong. Y'see, most of the muslims hate terrorism, it is just a "fringe group" causing all the damage. If Joshua was recording that a few people were doing instead of everyone, you'd have a more accurate comparison.

"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. "

Again, I don't laugh at those claims. The Bible allows for descended angels that had children with women, hence the "Nephilim" that wandered the earth. I believe that much so-called greek "mythology" came from here.

"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."

Y'know, there are many, many reasons to believe in a young earth and a large amount of evidence supports it. And it is almost comical when, rather than actually address those issues, people call them "loopholes" in an attempt to brush them off.

These reasons that you call "loopholes" are too numerous to discuss here and have been discussed in other places on this board.

As for trusting the tribesmen sitting in their tents, that's mostly because their story supports the evidence. But also keep in mind that these "tribesmen" placed tremendous value in the truth of the spoken word and the stories of the day. It was very taboo to alter or change or embellish a story because that could introduce error. This is why those stories were memorized from childhood word for word.


"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.""

We're not the ones sending them to Hell--they're doing that themselves. In fact, we have spent countless hours and dollars in an attempt to prevent that from happening, even in the face of ridicule and violent opposition.

"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."

Y'know, some Christians don't believe that God uses Tounges and Interpretation of Toungs anymore. I'm not one of them...

But either way, the Bible is clear that the act of speaking in Tounges is kinda "weird" and suggest not doing it in front of non-believers or new believers because, well, stuff like this...

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers.

Hmmm... y'know, that's almost as high as modern medicine in clinical trials for some pharmaceuticals on the market.

But seriously, answered prayer "rate" is much higher than that. I haven't done the study, but one out of every 10,000? I don't need a study to know that number is way too low!

"1You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of god"

Except that your numbers are way, way off... well, yeah...

Answer 4

Good question! Here's the answer:

http://www.standontherock.org/grace.html

Answer 5

Was there a question in there or merely your attack on a belief system you clearly no very little about?

Answer 6

Good points. I agree with you

Answer 7

Awesome! Can I steal that?

Answer 8

Reported. Not a ?.

Answer 9

good points, i may use them.

Answer 10

That's not me sorry