Comments on: Urban Legends

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:56:41 +0000

Another really pervasive one is the idea that the Columbine shooters went around asking people if they believed in God and shooting them if they said yes.

This one came from a faulty account of the incident where a student named Cassie Bernall was asked the question by the shooters. According to one source, she sadi yes and was killed. Actually, she hesitated and was shot before she had the chance to say anything. Another student was asked the same question and was spared upon saying yes.

A Contemporary Christian band popularized the inaccurate account in a song titled “She Said Yes” later on.

It’s easy to see why fundies like this particular urban legend. It feeds into their persecution complex and gives them an excuse to challenge young people with “Would you die for your faith?” without having to look too far back in time to give a reason.

By: Stitching Seams

Stitching Seams — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:07:10 +0000

Man. I didn’t grow up IFB in the least, but I did hear every single one of these in my Christian school growing up. I feel stupid for ever believing any of it.

By: Big Gary

Big Gary — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:27:44 +0000

That also fails to account for the fact that it’s real cold at the poles, and real hot at the equator, and everything in between, in between. Earth doesn’t have just one temperature, and people can live within a range of temperatures.

By: Big Gary

Big Gary — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:24:52 +0000

“However, the claim that sugar is only one molecule away from cocaine is almost certainly the truth.”

Absolutely true. And meaningless. Name any two chemicals. The first is “only one molecule away” from being the second one. That’s because a molecule is the basic unit of a chemical. The smallest thing that can be cocaine, or sugar, or kryptonite, is a molecule. Are Fundy colleges too busy bashing evolution to get around to beginning chemistry?

By: Shoe

Shoe — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:44:27 +0000

i was at a bible study, and someone broke out the microphone in the hole “illustration.” People unschooled in the blind faith of a fundy, asked “wouldn’t the mic have melted?” oh yee of little faith!

By: FormerFundy

FormerFundy — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:03:13 +0000

Just discovered this blog–it’s AMAZING! I remember as a young preacher idolizing Dr. James Kennedy and repeating many of the urban legends he spouted so confidently from his lofty pulpit. If we was so confident about it, he must be right! Especially because he was a “Doctor.” I sadly repeated the one about the earth being so many miles away, blah, blah. Didn’t even think about the nature of the earth’s orbit over the course of a year. Can you do another post on urban legends from the pulpit? Perhaps everyone can share one or two that they have heard repeated. These tall tales do great discredit to the movement that Jesus started.

By: exIFB

exIFB — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:12:55 +0000

Because it’s true.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:51:28 +0000

i had a ss teacher tell us once that p&g put aborted fetus parts in their products. why would she tell us that!?

By: farkus

farkus — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:52:07 +0000

I remember hearing this one: “The position of the earth is so precise that a few miles closer to the sun and we would all burn, a few miles further away and we would all freeze.” then I remember in college learning about elliptical orbits and being confused. How can this be? How could our orbit vary so wildly from one point to the other and the above statement still be true.

I never really got a good answer for that one.

By: JTR

JTR — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:42:25 +0000

*sigh* Stupid. Something fundies don;t have a corner on – or any public speaker for that metter. Or even…haters who disguise themselves as bloggers.