They are touchy about sins that relate to themselves...
-obesity because of gluttony is a sin according to the Bible...but, fundies defend it as a medical condition, yet gays are not a medical condition.
-believe in the ten commandments, yet defend people who steal by means of not paying back credit card debt, defaulting on loans, bankruptcy etc...
-give lip service to spreading God's word...but, spend money building multi-million dollar buildings in the suburbs, yet locking their doors in the presence of the homeless...
-quote 1 Corinthians 6:9 condemning homosexuals...but, overlook the part of the verse that talks about divorced/remarried people going to hell...the divorce rate is over 50% for pastors...according to Newsweek!
Honestly, I have become quite disillusioned with these people...I used to give them the benefit of the doubt...but, now I see them as a threat to our world...they are hypocrites with double standards...they obviously are not of God...your thoughts?
2007-04-27 08:16:55 · 4 answers · asked by G.C. 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have learned that there are many Fundamentalists who are nice people. They can be quite charitable and decent. However, I've definitely met some Fundamentalist hypocrites, just like I've met hypocrites in my own church. Fundamentalists don't have a corner on the hypocrisy market.
But having said that, my primary objection is that, due to Fundamentalist lobbying and media manipulation, people get the idea that all Christians are Fundamentalists, and in fact, they're not. I'm certainly not a Fundamentalist, not by any stretch of the imagination, and there are many Christian denominations that are not in any way Fundamentalist in their theology, politics or overall worldview.
2007-04-27 08:29:48 · answer #1 · answered by solarius 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What we have here is the logical fallacy of reaching an inductive generalization based on too little evidence. It commonly involves basing a broad conclusion upon the statistics of a survey of a small group that fails to sufficiently represent the whole population.
-obesity because of gluttony is a sin according to the Bible...but, fundies defend it as a medical condition, yet gays are not a medical condition.
Not all obesity is due to gluttony, homosexuality is not a medical condition, it is a lifestyle. Not all Fundamentalists are obese. No homosexual is such because of a medical condition.
-believe in the ten commandments, yet defend people who steal by means of not paying back credit card debt, defaulting on loans, bankruptcy etc...
The things you mention above do happen. There are however, legal means of taking care of those problems and if done illegally there are consequences and there is no data to show that Fundamentalist do this any more often than atheists.
-give lip service to spreading God's word...but, spend money building multi-million dollar buildings in the suburbs, yet locking their doors in the presence of the homeless...
Churches are houses of worship and are not designed to harbor the homeless. Most churches and ministries of any size have facilities for the homeless or work with local authorities to house and feed the homeless. The locked churches are to keep the loving homeless from urinating and defecating inside the church.
-quote 1 Corinthians 6:9 condemning homosexuals...but, overlook the part of the verse that talks about divorced/remarried people going to hell...the divorce rate is over 50% for pastors...according to Newsweek!
The divorce rate is 50% nationally so Newsweek does not exactly have a scoop there. I have looked but not been able to find any mention of divorce/remarried folks in 1 Cor 6:9. Perhaps you could show me here is the verse:
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor 6:9-10 (KJV)
And as you can see neither does verse 10.
So, I have not learned a lot about Fundamentalist here. I did learn that some people will repeat falsehoods without first checking to see if they are true.
2007-04-27 09:07:18 · answer #2 · answered by John 1:1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fundies are nuts and people who are nuts need to go to an asylum
2007-04-27 08:22:28 · answer #3 · answered by logical_christian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude you must be talking about the really extreme ones
2007-04-27 08:21:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋