Comments on: Redrawing the Lines

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:43:40 +0000

This post and the “Doing Your Best” post sum up the problems with fundamentalism perfectly. If I could please have them printed out in a um . . . tract (!) to hand out to family/friends to explain everything, that would be swell.

By: David

David — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:58:54 +0000

maybe my favorite post ever

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:04:20 +0000

Well, the moving line shakes our whole delusion. And if I have to rely on the discernment of the Holy Spirit instead of a rule, it takes away my ability to judge others, for to their own Master they stand or fall.

By: Monica

Monica — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:48:42 +0000

yeah Chrystal I totally blow at spelling.
I understand the making stricter rules for yourself, but that isn’t the case with these folks. They want to do it for everyone. Complete with christian burkas.

By: Stephie

Stephie — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:17:15 +0000

It’s fine to have stricter rules for yourself if you know you’ll be tempted– some people prefer not to eat at restaurants that serve alcohol, some avoid being alone with the opposite sex, etc. But when you start thinking that everyone has to follow your exact strict rules and that anyone not like you is an immoral, sinful person getting dragged down by the world’s pleasures, that’s where you have a problem. Also if you think the stricter your standards the more spiritual a person you are, that’s wrong. One misses the focus on the Lord when they focus on themselves and how they look to other people.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:47:28 +0000

We are all fleeing from immortality.

(I know that was a typo, but I laughed and laughed and laughed at this).

By: Monica

Monica — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:49:02 +0000

I have to agree. I found it to be tiring that there were so many redrawn lines, for example…when we got the sex talk at church the line was drawn at “if you hold hands you’re in sin!” I remember kids freaking out when someone was kissed. And it got only worse the older a person was.
When I joined Bethany(a church that has baptist leanings) I didn’t know this, but singletons weren’t even allowed to go on dates alone with people. We had to have a chaperone. But all the bible told us was to 1) not soil the marriage bed(whatever that means…i think it means no sex until marriage) and 2) flee from immortality. Where in was handholdling immoral?!

By: RJW

RJW — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:46:31 +0000

SOOOOOOOOOO true!

By: Ron Bean

Ron Bean — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:21:12 +0000

Is the practice of line drawing taken from the book of Alamo?

By: JimE

JimE — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:37:12 +0000

If God defines what is and what is not sin, then breaking a redrawn standard is not sin.

Or…

If breaking a redrawn standard is sin, then the person defining that standard as sin is playing God.

Self-righteous religeous leaders playing God caused me to leave the fundies after 45 years on the inside.

I saw religeous manipulation instead of love.
I saw a consuming fear of “evil” instead of faith in God.