Do you ever harbor a feeling that the fundies are on the wrong side in history?

Question

When I as 9, as well as believing that no Bronze Age god governed my life, I also believed, and many times more strongly, that Jim Crow and state-sanctioned hate in my native Georgia were unspeakably vile. I was only 9 and so I let the fact be known that I was "a traitor to the white race", and overnight I became a pariah dog. By no means is it as serious to me, the sad path which fundies are taking, but, you know, I have the same feeling that history will not be kind to them. American history certainly was on the side of a cotton-mill boy in backward Georgia in 1953, and it is on the side of American atheists in 2007. No matter how much cherry-picking of the Bible that fundies do, no matter their lies and really rather pathetic extortions, in not so many ticks of the clock, in universal terms, Christianity, as fundies define it, will be long-gone, yet another American oddity.

Get away from Georgia? I was born there and came of age there, yes, but I did not say I was living there now.

Answer 1

You just said yourself that things that group other races together sre wrong. So, why would you group all fundamentalists in one boat?

I am a fundamental Baptist but the hate spewing, ignorant people on here certainly aren't. As much as the world is on their side, it's on my side too. I don't "cherry-pick" the Bible. If you were to ask me a question I would give you both sides of the answer because if I am interperting wrong I don't want my mistake to be anybody elses downfall.

Maybe one day, senseless stereotyping will be another American oddity but if you look back THAT does seem to have history on its side.

Answer 2

I am an Independent Voter and by the way Moderate Liybrial! History is one thing you dont know too well! First of all did you know that our first 6 Presidents where devout Christians and actually the Declaration drafted was by Consevative Values of there time? American History also tell those of us who Understand our rights, that the word God was apart of the meaning too Freedoms that early America wanted and held true! So, only in the past 120 yrear or so has Lybrial thinkers have impowered them selfs enough in this country too look outside the box of conservative thinking! I consider myself a Christian ( A modern one but still a Christian) I have Liybrial idea and have Traditional Christian beliefs for the most part! How ever your Statement and question shows just how closed minded and wrong you are as far as Knowing American History! I'll forgive you because though History is never wrong People who Interpit it and twist the facts too suit a cause are the ones whom show there mind set and what they want!

Answer 3

Yes, probably. I'd advise you, however, to maybe try to get along with them, in the meantime. You can't instantly make them go away, and they'll be a fact of life in Georgia for quite awhile, yet.

You might despise their spiritual delusions, but you might find that some of them are still good human beings beneath the crust of religious programming. You can function with people on different levels, and you can filter out the parts you don't like in your perceptions of them. It makes life a whole lot easier.

You don't need to be a pariah. You have your beliefs. You don't need to sacrifice yourself to the cause of educating the ignorant. Reason will prevail, eventually, because that's what reason does. It takes time, and even though the current power structure in America is based on religious fantasy, it's foundation is weak and it is crumbling. Just give it time.

You might also consider relocating (I don't know how far passed 9 you are, today) to another place. Georgia is not a good environment for intellectuals. You might want to start moving West.

Answer 4

Christianity is not an "american oddity"

You are equating racists with Christians? maybe you should look elsewhere. There is racism without fundamentalists. How about the commie revolution? hmm? no religion there. It is sad that although you claim to be quite old, you have ignored all of what has happened elsewhere in the world.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, sir, I feel that you are lumping all Fudamentalist Christians together. Just as you realize that Black people should not be hated for their race, why do you believe that all Fundies are worthy of being lumped together? Isn't that the same kind of hatred that you learned to rise up above as a young man?

Answer 6

What if there's an end to the world sometime soon? I wonder how the survivors for the next phase will remember them...
:-)

Answer 7

I can't wait for the " In god we trust" to come off of our money.

Actually, if I had to pick one, I'd have "one nation under god" removed from the pledge.

Answer 8

Don't be silly. Fundies only believe what our founding fathers believed!!!!!


... Well, you know, except I guess maybe the whole slavery thing? Or maybe that whole equal rights thing? Or eh... SNAP, I guess they could be wrong.

Answer 9

Christianity will be like the mullet. You'll see it every once in awhile out in the country, but not in polite society.

Answer 10

Man you live in a dream world