The great thing about the Internet is that it brings a great diverse group of people together to collaborate, talk, and share information. Unless, of course, you’re a fundamentalist. They don’t generally like having to interact with diversity preferring rather to create their own enclaves of Christianity. With the growing popularity of social networking sites … Continue reading Providing Independent Baptist Alternatives to Internet Phenomena→
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where–” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. “–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as … Continue reading Heading to Somewhere Else→
The doctrinal statement of Cornerstone Independent Baptist Church contains a very interesting first point: Ethnocentric, much? How convenient that God has chosen the language that we speak anyway as the language to preserve the One True Bible. If he had chosen anything else the monolingual and xenophobic fundamentalist would be in serious trouble.
After reading this article from last November about the future of fundamentalism I’m going to make my own four predictions about where I see fundamentalism headed. 1. It will get competitive Church attendance across the spectrum is in decline and the cold-calling methodology of the trying to get new members is highly inefficient. Fundamentalists will … Continue reading Four Predictions For the Future of Fundamentalism→
Take down the signs and crosses on the fundy church and put up instead a banner that reads “Post-Christian.” For Independent Baptists talk about the Christian God; they still wave around the Christian book; they still use Christian words like “sin” and “righteousness” and “grace” but many, many are not Christian. Christians follow the example … Continue reading Gangland Christians→
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