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Is anyone else reading the book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Church and Fractured a Nation? Im only 12 chapters in, but it’s really wonderful. A fantastic and concise review of the evangelical movements that created the current environment. many of our “favorites” have already been detailed so far. If anyone else has read it, I’d love to discuss!
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Disinformation has taken hold in fundie churches
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Another effect of the reich wing, polarized churches.
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The information for this website was sent to me by an evangelical acquaintance who persists in believing that EO and Catholics are simply misinformed and would really rather be evangelical. It covers many evangelical views on police, BLM, social justice, prison, etc. Hip waders may be required. https://www.prageru.com/series/5-minute-videos/
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All aboard the crazy train
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A thread for FJers who feel or have ever felt ‘stuck’ in their practices/faith. And also for those who have left or changed their faith. I’d appreciate to hear your experiences and thoughts. My current personal experience: So I recently moved to the DC area with my family and naturally, my parents are looking for a church home while we are here. We went to one today that aligns with with what they believe. It’s an Independent Baptist Church. They use Focus on The Family (which I have issues with), the pastor there while genuine in his faith seems to be a mentee of Jerry Falw
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I read this article written by a woman who married at 20 and stayed a virgin throughout her marriage. She relates much of it to the evangelical shaming she received as a child regarding sexuality, along with an undiagnosed physical issue that caused penetration to be painful. I thought it was an interesting and sad article, so I'm posting it here. https://medium.com/s/story/this-is-how-i-remained-a-married-virgin-for-two-and-a-half-years-f178818a728b
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Yesterday I ran into this quiz to see how much one knows about evangelical Christianity. It also has a good definition IMO of evangelicalism. https://www.topixoffbeat.com/quiz/18784?utm_source=adrizer_tab&utm_campaign=79133&utm_term=worldnow-kfmb&tpx_campaign=18784-79133
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Evangelical Free Church - Fundy or Fundy-Lite?
HerNameIsBuffy posted a topic in Baptists/Evangelicals
In an attempt to slay some personal demons I've been revisiting parts of my distant past trying to gain some insight into some things I didn't fully understand as a kid. That was the church I attended with my mom ages 8-13 and I'd always considered it fundy-lite since big families were a thing but usually topped out at 7-8 kids and women wore pants, had jobs, only a handful of home schoolers. But the more I've learned about various flavors of fundy here the more I realize their beliefs weren't that lite. My mom was the least judgmental person I've ever known, she believed "evangalism" -
A fundie once again steps in it.
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‘Woman Has No Right Over Her Own Body – It Belongs To God’
fraurosena posted a topic in Baptists/Evangelicals
This is what is being preached by Jeff Crawford in Cross Church, Arkansas. You know, the one the Dillards and other Duggars go to. Megachurch Pastor: ‘Woman Has No Right Over Her Own Body – It Belongs To God’ Well, if I follow that logic, and my body indeed belongs to God, then you don't get a say what happens to it either, you misogynistic moron! -
Happy Hallowe'en! In celebration of the season, I was reading this piece on Vice today, about evangelical Hell Houses, and especially Trinity Church's famous ones. The piece is written by an ex-Evangelical, and contains lots of videos. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/3kvkmy/evangelical-hell-houses-are-waking-nightmares I am fascinated by this - we don't have these in the UK as far as I'm aware, so I'm about to jump down a rabbit hole. I can't imagine how they'd work on a non-believer like me, because they seem so camp/kitsch, but I can see them making people who do believe
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Talk about a damn buzz kill. Things start to get a little intense at the end of the video when he's confronted by several beefy guys who are telling him to shut up and leave. I suspect things got even more intense after the video ends. -
Christian bakers lose in Court of Appeal over refusing to bake cake with 'gay marriage theme'
EmainMacha posted a topic in Wide World of Snark
From the part of the UK that still bans marriage equality and abortion (Northern Ireland) Ashers bakery have lost their appeal over initially agreeing and then refusing to bake a 'sinful' cake which included the message 'support gay marriage'. They have to pay the guy who ordered the cake £500. They intend to appeal to the Court of Appeals in London. The business owner is 25 with 2 kids and a wife who looks at him adoringly in a ATI kind of way. Ugh. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/24/born-again-christian-ashers-bakery-lose-court-appeal-in-gay-cake-row-
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Question for the Group: What makes someone fundie or evangelical?
Avalondaughter posted a topic in General Religion Questions & Discussion
I have been on FJ for a few years now (although posting much less than I did when I first joined) and have spent a lot of time reading secular/rational/atheist blogs and listening to podcasts and watching videos. There seems to be quite a divide among Christians. So many Christians are saying, "I'm 'mainline" and I am not one of those Christian crazies." I hear the word "evangelical" quite a bit alongside fundamentalist. There seems to be some kind of ideological divide and belonging to one church or another automatically puts you on a side. I just don't understand these divides and what -
http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-people-dont-take-right-wing-evangelicals-so-seriously-anymore Totally hits the nail on the head: Americans are waking up to the fact that evangelicals are sex-obsessed, bigoted, greedy, indifferent to reality, and in general, the kind of people Jesus would've run screaming from. And if you replace every instance of "evangelicals" in the article with "Duggars," it totally works!
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So, I've had an odd moment where those things that fascinating me in a train-wreck can't keep watching kind of way meets what we'll label here as my real life. Almost six years ago I moved because I had lost my job and the economy was crap and I put my trust in God and decided, since I don't have children or husband tying me to one place, to take my job search nation wide. i wound up 2.5 or so hours east of where I had been in a neighboring state. After I moved at one point I went through a period where I seriously weeded out my former Facebook contacts from real life. Some I regret
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... gle+Reader An anthropologist researching evangelicals writes about how evangelicals communicate with God.
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Has this been discussed in-depth here? The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children by Katherine Stewart. (Obligatory Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-News-Clu ... 356&sr=1-1 ) Someone mentioned it here a week or two ago, and I immediately ordered it through World Cat's interlibrary loan (I live in TN, my copy came from George Mason University in DC. Fascinating!). I'm just about finished with it, and it's one of the scariest books I've ever read. The sneakiness, the backhandedness, the absolute glee with which these people break th
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Young evangelicals leaving church at all-time high
SquirrelySquirrel posted a topic in Baptists/Evangelicals
Pretty cool little article from CNN. It goes on to give some statistics, some of which are pretty heartening.
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