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**M Go Blue** · (This post was last modified: 05-03-2011 09:26 AM by M Go Blue.)

(05-02-2011 06:28 PM)Innocent Lamb Wrote: I'm hoping some life-long fundies can help me understand something here. My fundy ex-inlaws were so weird, sometimes I don't know if the things they did could be attributed to fundamentalism, or just to their own weirdness. So here's my question:

Once, I mentioned to my ex (when we were still together, obviously) that it would mean a lot to me if he would spend a few minutes reading the Bible with me every night. At the time, I was never seeing him crack open his Bible, so I was hoping maybe we could do it together. He looked at me like I had lost my mind, and said, "Um, no." I asked why, and he said, "My parents never did that." I asked if he ever saw his parents reading the Bible period, and he said no. This astounded me, so (not having enough sense to know yet that they expected me to be quiet and meek!) I politely asked my MIL about it. She hemmed and hawed and stammered, "Um... well.. uh... usually we just... well I mean sometimes we read like ... those devotional magazines you get quarterly."

These people are the fundiest of fundies in their doctrine. But they don't actually read THE BIBLE. Is this common?? I am wondering if fundies are actually not encouraged to study the Bible themselves, because it gives the MOG more leeway in telling them what he wants them to believe it says. Thoughts? Opinions?

From my experience growing up (and continuing to attend) a "fundy" (non-IFB) Baptist church, I can say that we were (and still are) encouraged to read the Bible. From kids' church to Sunday School to Sunday Services, pastors and teachers wanted us to read God's word. There are different reading plans the church makes available for those that want that a structured approach to reading the Bible though they don't say only those plans are the right way to read.

elfdream · 05-03-2011, 09:27 AM

You could read all you wanted to. Just don't ask embarrassing questions about what you read. "Did Jesus really say THAT? Why aren't we doing that?"

**pastor's wife** · 05-03-2011, 09:29 AM

(05-03-2011 09:27 AM)elfdream Wrote: You could read all you wanted to. Just don't ask embarrassing questions about what you read. "Did Jesus really say THAT? Why aren't we doing that?"

Oh, that's a good one! And that eventually propelled us out!