“Don’t tell God you don’t want to do something because that’s exactly what He’ll call you to do.” For all of their horror at the asceticism of other Christian sects, fundamentalists are often fascinated with the idea of suffering for Jesus — and God is evidently only too happy to oblige them. If a fundy [...]

In general, workplaces are stressful. There’s pressure to perform, goals to meet, and office coffee that tastes like the pot was last washed during the Nixon administration. But working for a fundamentalist organization is a special kind of stressful environment of the type that makes manufacturers of blood pressure and ulcer medication chuckle with glee. [...]

It is an underlying theme in fundamentalism that very little in this present world can be enjoyed for its own sake unless an explicit attempt is made to connect it up to some higher spiritual purpose. Whether you eat or drink or whatsoever you do…make sure everyone knows that you’re only using it as a [...]

Time stands still in fundyland. Walk into the average fundamentalist church and you’ll be able to easily spot suits and ties from the 70′s, women’s hair styles from the 80′s, and carpet colors that were last popular during the Eisenhower administration. And they shall not be moved. The strange thing about this time warp, however, [...]

The fundamentalist is a master at singling out those issues that really matter and making them the place to take a stand. Take, for example, the little town of King, North Carolina where a Christian flag, a war memorial, and a couple of Baptist churches were destined to meet… (This video was provided very graciously [...]

An alert SFL reader snapped this picture of a refrigerator magnet at the home of a fundy relative. I don’t think I’ve ever seen fundyism better summed up in a single image than this.

Although fundamentalist preachers in the same camp will inevitably sound the same, look the same, and have the same basic approach to ruling their congregation, they do tend to come up with their own list of things-that-are-sinful-because-they-annoy-me to be followed by their church members. Although this list of unwritten rules will be well known to [...]

Are you letting your expectations come from God, my fundamentalist friend? If you do then you will never be disappointed or sad! Yes, I know that you have just been through a terrible tragedy and suffered a blow to your spirit. But if your expectations had come from God instead of yourself you wouldn’t be [...]

In fundamentalism God is a full-time doorman, constantly busy with opening and shutting various doors of opportunity. This notion of God is popular because claiming a door to be divinely open or a shut is a fantastic way to take responsibility off of an individual and instead place it on the Almighty… “After four years [...]

To follow up on that last post, here’s a sermon from Truth Baptist Church entitled In one Accord – Patriotic to God and Country. There’s really too much here to catalog all of it. After some special music, the pastor starts out by claiming to have gotten his message straight from God while driving down [...]

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