I'm 30 years old and I've been around the world, and I've NEVER seen anyone "thump" their bible. I don't get why it is so widespread - is it just because it's a popular hate-filled term?
Besides, isn't that kind of like childish name-calling? Like when you called the smart kid in class "nerd", "geek", and "4-eyes!" ?
Then 20 years later I find out he owns a multi-million dollar computer company and he offers me a cool job... (cuz I never made fun of him)
SWEET!!
2006-09-06 05:42:37 · 25 answers · asked by TruthIsFreedom 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I do believe it is because non-christians are under the impression that christian "force" their opinions on others, hence metaforically thumping them in the head with their bibles. (which is also something I have yet to witness) I know that these people have so much sadness in their hearts and its probably just easier to make fun of those who dont...
2006-09-06 05:52:02 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Ty ♥ 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Honey you are just a baby!!! The term came from the bible belt of the USA... When these so proclaimed prohets would try and get there points across, they would take and raise the bible in the air and use there other hand to hit the bible...To put emphisize on the there preachings....Then they use to come door to door and preach right in your door step...or be outside your dry cleaners or grocery stores or work...It was so relentless the way they kept it up, that they got hooked with the term bible bangers!!! I have been a christen my whole life and I still refer to some of these people as Bible Bangers!!! Or another term Holy Roller!!!
2006-09-06 05:55:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I suppose it was a term coined for some of the southern baptist preachers who I have witness slamming their bibles on the podium, trying to talk with spittle dripping from their lips, and crying one minute then yelling the next. Now, not all southern baptist preachers are like that but I have witnessed several first hand. I think they feel like maybe it will scare the devil out of you or something. Mostly it just turned me off to organized religion. I decided to find God on my own and He has yet to yell at me or make my bible a whipping post.
2006-09-06 06:33:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Obviously you've never attended many of the fundie churches...I remember typical "fire and brimstone" preachers, and there was a lot of shouting, and banging the podium with their fists and the bible.
Bible thumpers.....It's a term that has been around for a looooooong time...at least since the early 20th century with the travelling preachers doing revival shows. It's only slighly derogatory, more a term of "endearment" It also secondarily refers to the often forceful and uninvited way evangelicals offer their testimony to non-believers.
2006-09-06 05:50:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because they are always thumping people with out of context Bible quotes...they use the Bible as a weapon, it's the only thing the Bible is good for really, as a moral guide it's way too contradictory and open to any number of interpretations...but it makes a good weapon for sure.
I guess if you are going to go about calling all and sundry sinners then you had better be able to take it when you get some back ...so stop whining!
2006-09-06 05:47:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
some dumbass at right here reported that it is meant for human beings 'such as you who don't have faith in Jesus Christ'. So what he's making an attempt to declare is that regardless of how sturdy of a individual you're, whether you donate maximum of your fee reductions to charities, help undesirable human beings, be a sturdy and supportive be certain, sacrifice exhilaration for human welfare, as long as you're actually not Xtian, you do no longer pass to Heaven. Christian ideals make a lot of expertise! The Bible is so stupid. It does not say how lots one has to sin to lose eligibility to Heaven. I propose, once you're a God foresaken heinous, hopeless sinner at one factor on your life and then convert to being an exceedingly non secular Christian, you're eligible to circulate into Heaven? What bearing directly to the goddamn harmless and sturdy people who thoroughly sacrificed earthly needs and pleasures for the sake of being sturdy and constructive in the eyes of God? Gawd!
2016-10-14 09:30:28 · answer #6 · answered by canevazzi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch an evangelical preacher on TV some time. When they make a point they want to emphasize they thump their Bible. I live in the Mid-West and let me assure you Christians do thump their Bibles to make their point.
2006-09-06 05:47:08 · answer #7 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To "thump" is to pound, bang, bash, etc. and it's used to refer to the gesture of vigorously pointing to the good book to reference your idea or opinion. Although disparaging, it is not a hate-filled phrase - "bible humping" would be more like it - it's a generalization about people who have no other sources of information to formulate their opinions or who seek to proselytize by pushing the bible in your face. All generalizations are childish.
2006-09-06 05:53:38 · answer #8 · answered by S G 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it's because some Christians act like they want to thump others on the head with their bible :)
actually it comes from the pastors of the 18th and 19th centuries who would hit their Bible during a sermon
2006-09-06 05:45:18 · answer #9 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It refers to preachers who pound a lectern with their hand or the Bible itself, caught up in . . . well, the Spirit, or pure hysteria, depending on your perspective. I've seen it done by evangelists on TV, though it probably doesn't happen all that much. An exaggeration that brings an image to mind for sure of pentecostal enthusiasm. I'm not sure it's necessarily about hate, though it always seems ridiculous to me, I guess.
2006-09-06 05:49:37 · answer #10 · answered by chiennoir54 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋