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To: Kaslin
He's not really describing fundamentalist Christianity.

True fundamentalism means following what the Bible says--and not adding in your own rules and regulations that others must follow. (it's fine to add rules for yourself, if that helps you stay on the straight-and-narrow).

No--the two are complete opposites. "Wokeism" is just plain fascism and slavery. Christianity is freedom.

4 posted on 03/15/2021 4:27:22 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: ShadowAce
Case in point:

Granted, sometimes there existed a solid reason for some of the rules. One can make a strong case, for example, for keeping sex - and especially children - within the confines of a loving, committed marriage.

Um, this is actually one of the 10 Commandments...one does not simply say "Thou shall not commit adultery" is a "rule."

This piece came out after Trump won but it remains THE best in explaining the new left. This writer's thesis is similar to our Town Hall writer, except this guy is correct:

Liberals have always accused social conservatives of bringing religion into politics, but liberals have done something far worse, and far more radical: They have made politics their religion...What they really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy.

The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa... Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic...for them, politics is the means to secular salvation...political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.

13 posted on 03/15/2021 5:19:54 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: ShadowAce
>>He's not really describing fundamentalist Christianity.<<
I agree. Perhaps he experienced this somewhere but it would have been an outlier. In my experience the trend in the 80's was the very opposite of what he describes.(ie. "the Jesus movement" "the Maranatha movement," beach ministries, charismatic expression). The dominant effort was to "liberalize" worship and conduct of believers. (The resounding effect was the displacement of choirs for praise bands, casual approach/attire by the "worship leader")
There was a departure from verse by verse teaching toward homiletics.

It's all meant to lay the groundwork for a wider argument against liberalism. But he does not see the problem with contemporary evangelicalism.
18 posted on 03/15/2021 6:02:42 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: ShadowAce

Amen


40 posted on 03/16/2021 5:35:03 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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