Moral Confusion
If every petty offense is counted as a great abomination and terrible wickedness…then how can you tell when real evil shows up? If wearing a pair of jeans makes a woman the moral equivalent of a whore and listening to rock music is the same as fornication and questioning the pastor is as the sin [...]
Keeping “Short Accounts”
There are a select handful of verses that any fundamentalist worth his sanctified salt can quote by heart. Among these is Psalm 66:18 “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.” The fundamentalist interprets these words to mean that even though a person is saved and has God as his [...]
Feeling Bad
Fundamentalists take a fairly pessimistic view of most things including their own spiritual condition. They tend to look down on those Christians who go to church to sing upbeat music and generally be happy, preferring rather to spend their time in and equal mixture of guilt and grief. Repenting of something each time you go [...]
