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A co-worker of min in Oklahoma (ORU grad), once he found out I was LDS, I could have said "I'm a pedophile" and the revulsion would have been about the same. So while the idea or dare I say doctrine may be the same, the attitude and actions are light years apart. |
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It's as FMCoug describes, they can do a complete turn around from "Oh you look normal let's be friends," to "You are Satan, and abuse children, steal money and bathe with Utes."
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Heck, I have been told I was going to hell by people on CB and they weren't very polite about it. |
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As SEIQ shows, we have Christian extremists who thankfully only in rare cases commit violence opposed by the core principles of Christianity. If somebody thinks I'll end up in the cosmic incinerator, they might be correct. I don't care where they believe I will utlimately spend my hereafter, just how they interact with me. And some with the ardent fervor are incapable of interacting with anything they consider alien or different due to endocentric tendencies. And discussing religion usually can only occur if you engage a person who discusses it at the intellectual level, not at the emotional level.
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It has evolved to a discussion of extremists. Originally the discussion between Arch and myself was Islamic Terrorists and are they as extreme as evangelicals or vice versa. As with most posts the conversation has evolved.
Lest I be misunderstood, I find our leaders of today to be much more welcoming and understanding of those of other faiths. I don't think that was our history, but I do now. I find some evangelical leaders to be more limited in their ability to "think" than I consider them vicious. Perhaps I am wrong and they are vicious too, but I just find them pathetically dumb. |
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Fred Phelps' wild rantings sound like crude Calvinism.
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Of course there's always some confusion over what we mean by evangelicals. I'm speaking of conservative fundamentalist Christianity, represented by many Baptist churches and much of the non-denominational movement as well. Most of the mega-churches are based on strict Calvinist doctrine, but not all of the members are educated enough to realize it. Obviously, if you put it to them in the words I used above, most of them will want to say, "I don't believe that." They don't realize the implications of a doctrine of pre-determination. |
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Well, as I recall it was the way the prayers were being conducted. The way they did it was to elect a student "chaplain" who would pray before the games or read prayers that other students submitted. It was apparently completely under the control of this "chaplain" what was going to be said in these prayers. Not surprisingly it quickly turned into a bash Catholics, Mormons, Jews and anyone other than Evangelical Christian fest. This naturally stirred things up within the school and some students started persecuting those from the religions bashed in the prayers. When the LDS girl and her Catholic friend submitted a prayer together it was denied. Because it was a school sponsored action by virtue of the fact that not only was it a school event but that the elected chaplain was a student office, it amounted to government favoritism to one religion over others, and thus was ruled unconsitutional as it should have been, IMO. |
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