Free Republic is a fringe right-wing Christian fundamentalist site

12/11/2009 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Free Republic is a fringe right-wing Christian fundamentalist site... or so they say... and they might even be right.

We don't go for any of that godless left-wing big government socialist malarkey. And we do put our faith and trust in God, not government. We are pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Family, pro-Country and pro-Liberty.

We do not believe that government or science knows what's best for us or our children. We will make our own decisions thank you very much.

Every once in a while some group of posters get together and try to bend Free Republic to their will. Now, we tend to be pretty free-wheeling around here and will take a lot of guff and a lot of obnoxious insults from a lot of people, but eventually a breaking point is reached.

For example, when a group of RINO lovers recently banded together to try to force FR to accept an abortionist/gay rights RINO as our presidential candidate, they soon found themselves on the outs.

And a few years ago a group of evolutionists tried to force FR over to their way of thinking and they soon found themselves on the outs.

FR is a pro-God, pro-Creator, pro-Life, pro-Liberty site.

And now we have yet another group of Darwinists trying to have their Darwinist way with us. Well, as I've said before what doesn't kill us will only make us stronger.

Darwin Central has again declared war on FR. They have ping lists and email lists and will try to pull away as many FReepers as they possibly can. So be it. Those who would rather go with Darwin, please go. I sure as hell won't try to stop you.

FR will remain a pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Liberty, pro-Creator conservative site.

We wholeheartedly believe that our unalienable rights are a gift from God our Creator not from man or government. And no man, no government will ever deprive us of same.

Keep your powder dry.

[xcamel]

re: Behemoth the Cat

Click on the screen name for an important message...

sheesh.

[BillyBoy]

>> You live in a state that is 30% Catholic and 40% Protestant. <<

I live in a township that is about 60% Catholic. The southwest Chicago area has a much higher percentage of Catholics than Illinois as a whole. My town has no less than three Catholics congregations, each with its own church and school, and a fourth one that borders the town across the street. My "local region" is overwhemingly Catholic. If my "local region" was way down in southern Illinois near the KY border, it would likely be a lopsided amount of protestants.

Many southern states like Texas have "local regions" where there are plenty of Catholics, and other communities where the neighbors are 80% protestant. South Carolina as a whole may be 70% protestant, though I'm sure many communities are closer to 90% protestant.

Or do you think I drive 8 hours each day through Illinois so the people I encounter on a regular basis are representative of the entire "religious makeup" of my state?

>>> You seem so isolated that you seem to think of Protestant as a single church, and you talk about it as though it is foreign and unknown to you, living in a Protestant nation, you really should get out more. <<

Ansel, I have explained to you about 50 times now that the YEC's I am speaking of are a small faction WITHIN protestant America, and are NOT representative of protestants in the U.S. as a whole. Apparently at this point you are just deliberately lying about my opinions or simply ignoring the parts you don't want to hear. There is a vast variety of protestant culture in the U.S. and the only thing they have in common is they don't follow the Pope. They range from having beliefs virutally identical to Catholics (like traditional Anglo-Catholic Anglicians) and being so completely different from Catholics that the ONLY trait they share is a belief that Jesus is their savior.

Since you want to ignore my posts if they don't gel with your stereotypes, I'm through talking with you. Ping me again if you ever want to discuss facts or reply to the actual content of what I posted instead of what you'd like to pretend I said.

[cerberus]

There is NO alternative to evolution, that is the problem. If they did we could debate it. ID offers no alternative alternative ‘origins’ theory at all(doesnt even try), And Young Earth Creationism sunk with the overloaded Noah’s Ark. (Which is why we have ID now, to avoid that re-debate.) The best ID and creationism could teach is “Things unexplained”

On the other side, evolution needs to be taught with a disclaimer that there is no way to know exactly what happened pre-human recorded history. I admit Atheists love to call evolution a fact, their proof there is no God. And that is a lie.

Well stated IMHO.

[Natural Law]

"“This is coming from the guy who believes that Noah abandoned dinosaurs, and that’s why they have gone extinct?”

To use the rhetorical approach used by the likes of the ICR if one accepts the Young Earth age and dinosaur fossils are not a fabrication of Satan to deceive, then the extinction is the result of being kept off the ark.

[count-your-change]

MM, the person who said this really is the one that needs to get out more:

“I was really shocked to learn many protestants think Jesus had brothers and sisters. I had always assumed the vast majority of Christians taught Jesus was an only child.”

Maybe they think everyone in the so-called “Bible belt” are refugees from the movie “Deliverance”.

[presently no screen name]

What's your problem that you feel the NEED to poke a freeper in the hopes of deliberately riling up.

YOUR tactic is the exact thing FR doesn't want or need. You exposed yourself of your intent here. You'll be watched.

[wagglebee]

re: Behemoth the Cat

Click on the screen name for an important message...

sheesh.

I'm sure in your mind Behemoth the Cat was a "victim" of a "jihad", but it's more likely that Behemoth the Cat was banned for writing this:

It's sad that the FR founder has subscribed to the view that this FRINGE belief, professed only by some FRINGE Protestant sects, defines one's conservatism and faith, and denies Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, Mormons etc. the name of Christians.

[SierraWasp]

Hey! I'm not just including "Christian Fundamentalism" in my definition of "Fundamentalism!" There are segments of any sect, cult, denomination and even in secular culture that are infested with "Fundamentalism."

You would have noticed that THAT is how I got involved in this discussion by NOT limiting it to just Christians...

Race Bannon refuses to understand that because he's fixated on some dumb book.

"metmom" seems to understand what I'm saying and I hope you do too.

I wasn't sure how to take your reply to me... Personally, I like nearly all forms of fundamentalism and don't like to see them spat upon!!!

All of philosophy is based on a search for truth by boiling thoughts and ideas down to their fundamental immutable core! That's where we should all be finding our anchor in the storms of B.S. that swirl all around us!!!

It just seems strange to me that just because Mr. Robinson used the words "Christian fundamentalist site," that that somehow doesn't apply to a constitutionalist fundamentalist and a whole bunch of others, as well!!!

[xcamel]

And your point is?

(other than joining in on the massive gloat-fest of unchristianlike behavior)

[metmom]

Jesus family is mentioned several times in the Gospels and elsewhere. His brothers are even named in two of them.
Here are the references, as per your request.

Matthew 12:46-47 46While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. 47Someone told him, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”

Matthew 13:53-57 53When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. 54Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. 55”Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? 56Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” 57And they took offense at him.

Mark 3:31 31Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

Mark 6:1-3 1Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 2When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.

“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! 3Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

John 2:12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

John 7:1-5 1After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. 2But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, 3Jesus’ brothers said to him, “You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. 4No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

[metmom]

Behemoth is no longer with us.

Don’t expect a reply.

[metmom]

Irreducible complexity.

Sorry, I thought you knew it since more other evolutionists are familiar with it.

[Agamemnon]

I am here all the time, and I don't recall a Creationist bashing thread started here on FR. Evo bashing threads are started ALL the time....

Can't we all just get along?

From your CREATIONIST BASHING personal page:

Stupid Conservative Tricks: Intelligent Design/Creationism

Why don't you just take all your limp-wristed whining over to DC, DU, or Internet Infidels, like enough of your types around here already brag about doing.

They're likely to even welcome you with outstretched tentacles.

Don't even try to pretend you ever wanted to "just get along" now that all of sudden the heat is getting turned up on Darwinists, and you want to act like you've always been some kind of nice guy.

Many of us remember you and others on all those threads when Darwin Central was around here still openly gnashing their teeth. Your personal page says enough now to let anyone know you aren't any different now than you were then.

Those anti-creationism threads largely ended when Darwin Central got flushed out of here last time.

Don't hand us any more of this "Can't we all get along" crap. You've never had any intention of getting along -- then or now.

You're busted.

[wagglebee]

And your point is?

I was just opining on the probable cause as to why the Darwinist was banned.

(other than joining in on the massive gloat-fest of unchristianlike behavior)

I'm not gloating about Behemoth's unchristian-like behavior, though I'm sure many over at your favorite anti-Christian, anti-FReeper site are ecstatic.

[presently no screen name]

I'll keep snarking the 'tards until I get burnt at the stake."

Thanks for the heads up - it's time to turn up the heat! Seems like "it's" already toast but if 'it's' into BURNT, 'it' can be accommodated!

[ansel12]

Your posting history of goading people into posting a ‘banable’ comment is well known throughout FR

I find that a little baffling, unless you mean that she makes people use cuss words or post porn or something, surely you don't mean that she uncovers hidden trolls by leading them to blurt out their actual views that they were concealing, while living under the radar as disruptive trolls?

[wagglebee]

Thanks for the heads up - it's time to turn up the heat! Seems like "it's" already toast but if 'it's' into BURNT, 'it' can be accommodated!

You will notice that xcamel has not offered anything even approaching an apology for this statement, yet she has the audacity to accuse others of being unchristian.

[metmom]

I never saw some of those comments.

Got a source for that one? “Catholics have their services in Latin so the people don’t understand what’s going on during the service”. The Catholic church switched from Latin to English decades ago, so I doubt that one.

HOWEVER, if you can provide evidence that other churches besides Catholics pray to Mary, by all means do so.

I don’t recall having Bibles in the pews in church when I was growing up, although there were Scripture readings in every mass. Maybe that has changed.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find that there were Catholics who never cracked a Bible. It certainly wasn’t opened in our home even though we went to church weekly and for the holy days.

[confederacy of dunces]

Interesting. You have to be a member of DC to be able to view that particular thread.

So, what's your screen name over there?

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

When my husband was new to the ministry, God spoke to his heart and said don’t seek the titles of men, if you need a title start with servant. No my husband did not hear an audible voice to all that may read and misunderstand this statement.