Claiming Not To Be Religious
“Are you one of those religious folks?,” asked the man’s co-worker casually. “I see you carrying that Bible to work every day and praying over your meals…out loud.”
“No sir!,” said the fundamentalist stiffly, “What I’ve got is not religion. No indeed, what I’ve got is a belief in the Bible about the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, and a relationship with God through daily devotions and church attendance and times of remembrance during the Lord’s supper and last but not least the keeping a strict code of moral law as laid out in Scripture.”
“Oh.” said the co-worker. “Sounds like a religion to me…”
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Either that, or they abandon the denotative definition altogether and say something like “Christianity isn’t a religion, it’s a relationship.” The only people worse with definitions than fundamentalists are postmodernists–strange bedfellows.
You hit the nail on the head
I don’t want to be religious. But I desperately want to follow Christ. Almost defies categorization, don’t it?
i love how, according to fundy dogma (or “fugma”) you can either be religious, or you can have a relationship with Jesus, but you can’t have both.
it’s like a baker saying “i don’t believe in culinary arts, i just have a personal relationship with bread”.