Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.evilbible.com/Top_Ten_List.htm

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.


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[msongs]

1. you dont go into the closet and close the door when you pray...like jesus tells u to do nt

[Angry Dragon]

2. Not nice to make fun of them.................

Just tell them they are Druids for having a Christmas tree

[Iolanthe15]

3. The Fundies

This is right on . They are the most arrogant hipocrits and I think they deserve to be made fun of; Im tired of being nice about nutty beliefs

[bluestateguy]

4. And of course Jesus would be all for letting 50 million people have no health care

and blowing up other countries that did nothing to harm us.

[NotThisTime]

5. Love it, and it's so damn true...

[Newest Reality]

6. And:

You don't listen to yourself or inspect what's going on when you repeat what is programmed into you and persists on an unconscious level.

Therefore, because your own integrity and inherit potential have been denigrated and denied because you are convinced that, being a shameful sinner from birht, you require the redemption that is conveniently offered. You are taught to fear your own thoughts and believe that words are anything other than abstractions and tools for communication -- they are still a form of magic to you and there are good ones and very bad ones. This constricts your ability to think, weigh and reason about actions because they are mistaken with words and thoughts as if you have no control over your own. That is probably the underlying reason why you tend to repeat, without critical thought, what is presented, (no matter how ridiculous, contrary or hateful) to you if it is put in a context that supports your unquestioned beliefs.

Beliefs are set in stone for you and you are convinced that they cannot and should not be changed, so your world and experience are narrowed and easily subject to manipulation by those who understand the process. After all, once you have had your belief-system formed by others, you are subject to the rules that are designed to keep you in the grasp of those self-reinforcing beliefs. When the authority is an "almighty something" and the stakes are about eternal consequences after death, free thinking and self-direction of your nervous system is unthinkable.

You have been programmed. That's fine, (though it is best to be self-programming as that's how you function) and I have nothing against it personally if it serves you well. However, when we are dealing with external behaviors, there is an actual impact on others. That is, especially when we don't see peace, good will and charity, but rather, externalized struggles with internal incongruities that you project outwards, most likely because you are not allowed to acknowledge them to yourself and others. Given that kind of conflict within, your actions and behaviors are more revealing to some than you may realize at this point.

[susanr516]

11. Excellent analysis

As a former fundie, I was taught never to think for myself and never to question any denominational beliefs. It really was cult-like.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. No need for thinking for yourself. Just do as you are told...

[Motown_Johnny]

8. #4 was beautiful

[sharesunited]

9. That Triune God part takes a lot of work. A single Godhead with three personifications.

Reconciling a supposedly monotheistic religion with the trinity and doing it with a straight face.

Pure chutzpah.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

10. And fundies aren't introspective enough to realize that any of these items describe them

There's very little thinking done in the fundie world.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. And the zeroth law: you're as ignorant as a fucking fence post.

In all the ways that one can be ignorant/immature: emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, scientifically, mathematically, socially, culturally, historically, politically, ad nauseum.

(and you think that 'ad nauseum' is probably some kind of attack on Christians, a Satanic POWERWORD, or will make you gay)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. I know one that doesn't want his kids to read books.

He thinks knowledge is bad. Of any kind.
Sits around and tells everyone what "Gawd's law" is. A total negative Scrooge energy sucking vampire.

Wants his kids to be ditch diggers. Told me my problem with the Bible was that I took courses in it in a religion dept. in a university where all the religion profs had graduated from Harvard or Princeton.

I said, "NO, KNOWLEDGE IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING". Asshole.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. That's pretty typical of any fundamentalist of any religion or ideology. And it's sad.

And it's a major diving line between Democrats and the modern day teabagger style Republican.

And the sad part is, that the right wing fundy teabagger sect is the one that wants to cry out constantly that America is a "Christian nation" because of the pilgrims, and yet, the the Pilgrims are the one who created Yale and Harvard, and who became the United Church of Christ, the Unitarians, and the Northern Baptists, all good, liberal, social justice denominations that accept gays and people of other religions and who are adamantly against any idea of America being a "Christian Nation".

[randr]

14. The bottom line on religeous fundamentalism

is that people that insist their is only one god can not grasp the possibility that there really is only one god and insist that others are worshiping another god, one they deny the existence of.