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| Fundamentalist Christianity And Fundamentalist Wokeism Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin |
| 2021-03-15 |
| [TownHall] - At the independent, fundamentalist Baptist church I grew up attending in the 1980s, legalism was a staple, and the ’rules’ were seemingly endless. Skirts (or something called ’culottes’) for women and girls, long pants only for men and boys, and dresses and ties on Sunday morning. Good Christians didn’t dance or go to Hollywood movies. They didn’t smoke, cuss, or drink or hang around with those who did. Music wasn’t allowed unless it was Christian, and regardless of the lyrics, it wasn’t ’Christian’ if it had drums, an upbeat tempo, or was written after 1895 (or thereabouts). ...Ironically, Jesus himself didn’t seem to be much of a rules guy or even someone who cared all that much whether everyone’s theology was 100 percent correct. In fact, the object of Christian worship summed up the entire law and prophets in two simple commands: Love God and love your neighbor. Do those things, in any culture or religious background, and the ’rules’ don’t matter so much, do they? Ah, but a proper love of the Creator means you’ll WANT to obey all the rules, they say. True, but how many came from man, and how many came from God? For example, I’m pretty sure Jesus wouldn’t mind me having the occasional glass of wine, especially considering he once MADE IT HIMSELF at a wedding. Clearly, there’s a difference between rank legalism and living one’s life in line with general principles of morality and doing good to others. Which brings us to the other side of this hellish coin, Puritans of another stripe altogether. You see, the religious aren’t the only ones hellbent on establishing and following dumb rules and strict belief systems. Indeed, the woke left has its own set of requirements and regulations its adherents must follow, and the belief system it demands fielty to is just as rigid and unyielding, if not more so, as the cultiest Christian cult. From speech codes to microaggressions to the broad spectrum of toxic, punishing censorship known as cancel culture, it’s become impossible to point out even blatantly obvious truths without drawing the wrath of the woke left. And unlike religion, you don’t have to be a ’member’ to be ’forced’ to assent to their insane beliefs and obey their ridiculous dictates on pain on social ostracization, job loss, and even physical harm. Like fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist wokism purports to justify their rules as a way to keep people on the proverbial ’road,’ not to heaven, but to what they consider a better, more utopian society. Read a Dr. Seuss book, they reason, and the next thing you know you’re putting on a white hood and joining the Klan. But just like rules-obsessed Christians, they’re missing the point. It's the same Nehemiah Scudder, just in different clothing? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 BS. No comparison btn Christian Fundamentalism and the Wokesters, who are really Cultural Marxists. Christian Fundamentalism has not had power in this country for over 300 years. In our own era the Marxists have put the boot into the face of at least a dozen societies comprising nearly half the earth's population. |
| Posted by: Glusock Schwarzeneggar9315 2021-03-15 21:48 |
| #8 Christaphobia is rampant. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2021-03-15 21:38 |
| #7 I found that fundamentalist Christians write books, lots of them. Fundamentalists who are New Testament scripture based. I suppose what the author here is doing is trying to say those that make up their own rules are fundamentalist Christians. Not true. Those are Jonesboro and Branch Davidian cults IMHO. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-03-15 17:12 |
| #6 article's writer has failed and is drowning in insanity, and is attempting to take you there with him. Kind of where I landed too. Just crap. Even if his Footloose parody childhood is remotely correct, here is the problem with the conclusion - those 'fundamentalist religious rules' came about by failing into success, with thousands of years of experience. Wokeness is success in failing, and its facets are warned about in multiple religious followings. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-03-15 10:22 |
| #5 Pharisees are Pharisees. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-03-15 08:37 |
| #4 Since both of these sides are really sketchy, I'll go with the third side of the coin, the one side used by independent, intelligent individuals and thinkers. Writers today are just so far out in left field, grasping at air, or water, trying to prevent themselves from slipping into general insanity; this article's writer has failed and is drowning in insanity, and is attempting to take you there with him. |
| Posted by: Gleans Hyping6542 2021-03-15 07:36 |
| #3 ^Garth, you miss the author's point: Zealots are Zealots - doesn't matter what ideology they are zealots for (matter of basic personality). The woke of today, would've been Christian fundamentalists (or communists) a 100 year ago. p.s. Google "Massachusetts Blue Laws", "Prohibition", "Salem witch trials", "Inquisition", ... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-03-15 06:57 |
| #2 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Not a whole lot of love there, Matthew 23. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-03-15 06:52 |
| #1 The fundamental Christian banned books that fellow fundamentalist Christian should not read. The some prevent others from reading it. Also fundamental Christians don’t force non fundamentals to go to indoctrinate classes or have people fired for ten year old tweets. In every way the woke are worse B |
| Posted by: Lord garth 2021-03-15 06:19 |