Random Post: Destroying The Innocent

Signs of Maturity

In order for a fundamentalist to demonstrate that he is growing in grace, he must not only maintain the standard but he must also continually increase the amount that he does. If the new Christian prays for ten minutes a day, within a year he’d better be praying thirty minutes, and five years later he [...]

Insulation

The fundamentalist community has strong walls and high gates to protect itself against the world around it. In order that fundies may soil themselves as little as possible with the evil that lurks outside the sacred bubble, they attempt as much as possible to replicate every facet of secular life in fundamentalist hues inside this [...]

Fighting Imaginary Battles With The Devil

The fundamentalist war against Satan is as unceasing as it is uninformed. The field of conflict is so often located in such unlikely places that one has to wonder if Satan has even been told that he’s supposed to show up to fight.  Satan is evidently much like the Taliban who are known to win [...]

Sports

This is an oldie but goody that I found again recently. Edited to add: There are more great designs over at Blog on the Way

Preaching To The Converted Redux

How many families in the average fundamentalist church do you think would have kids with subscriptions to 17 magazine? Nick “Action” Claxton (I am honestly not making that name up) evidently thinks there are quite a few in his. It’s always so much fun to rail on other people’s sin.

Car Codes of Conduct

Since its inception, the primary purpose of the automobile has always been to provide venue for pastors to lose their testimonies. It may also (as a strictly secondary function) provide some modicum of useful transportation. It is a well known fact in fundamentalism that even the most restrained and moderate of people lose all self-control [...]

In Their Own Words: Prohibition

If you still think that prohibition was a pretty swell idea that was working great until liberals ruined it for everybody…you might be a fundamentalist. Here’s Marc Monte, fundamentalist pastor (and SFL commenter) to break it down for us: