Um. The fundamentalist insertion is something I hadn't thought about. But a long way back, I was very disturbed by how "Christianity" was being faced by people who claimed that "faith" was "certainty". And there was an interesting blog post here discussing a similar issue: http://www.mahablog.com/2016/10/13/the-christian-rights-original-sin/.
Fundamentalism, in the sense of biblical inerrancy, is a lost cause. I wish I'd copied down the quote, but someone said something to the effect of "creating the entire universe out of nothingness, appearing billions of years old in spite of happening 6000 years ago? I can believe that. But creating a book that is inerrant, across thousands of language changes and translations? Bullshit."
And we have proof positive of that. Abortion was explicitly *not* murder before the rise of the religious right. Oh, *Catholics* said it was, but not REAL Christians. Until one of the big Christian universities - Bob Jones? - was about to lose federal funding if they didn't allow black and white students to date. Racial discrimination wasn't allowed - not even if you claim it's based in religion. Then they needed a rallying cry. Strangely, "let our Christian universities engage in racial discrimination" didn't rally the troops, so they decided that abortion was the big issue.
After inerrantly claiming abortion was emphatically not murder, they're now inerrantly claiming it is.
I like the legendary Jesus - the guy who said to love what is good, and love *each other* - yeah, your fellow ugly, stinky, disagreeable REAL neighbors, don't just thump the holy books and make a big show of praying, but go love real people, living real lives. If there's a way to become a good person, that's probably a big piece of it. I like what I think Christianity *could* be. But this turnaround should really bother people... *EVEN IF* they think that they'd made a mistake originally, and corrected it, they should be fully aware that they no-way made just one mistake. It should be humbling.
For them? It ain't.
(The "them" here is a specific subset of Christians - and I'm too tired to try to explain the definition of the subset so I won't.)
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Date: 2016-11-01 11:28 pm (UTC)Fundamentalism, in the sense of biblical inerrancy, is a lost cause. I wish I'd copied down the quote, but someone said something to the effect of "creating the entire universe out of nothingness, appearing billions of years old in spite of happening 6000 years ago? I can believe that. But creating a book that is inerrant, across thousands of language changes and translations? Bullshit."
And we have proof positive of that. Abortion was explicitly *not* murder before the rise of the religious right. Oh, *Catholics* said it was, but not REAL Christians. Until one of the big Christian universities - Bob Jones? - was about to lose federal funding if they didn't allow black and white students to date. Racial discrimination wasn't allowed - not even if you claim it's based in religion. Then they needed a rallying cry. Strangely, "let our Christian universities engage in racial discrimination" didn't rally the troops, so they decided that abortion was the big issue.
After inerrantly claiming abortion was emphatically not murder, they're now inerrantly claiming it is.
I like the legendary Jesus - the guy who said to love what is good, and love *each other* - yeah, your fellow ugly, stinky, disagreeable REAL neighbors, don't just thump the holy books and make a big show of praying, but go love real people, living real lives. If there's a way to become a good person, that's probably a big piece of it. I like what I think Christianity *could* be. But this turnaround should really bother people... *EVEN IF* they think that they'd made a mistake originally, and corrected it, they should be fully aware that they no-way made just one mistake. It should be humbling.
For them? It ain't.
(The "them" here is a specific subset of Christians - and I'm too tired to try to explain the definition of the subset so I won't.)