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lpetrich · 10-10-2007, 12:43 PM

(Fundies creating a full-scale subculture of "Christian" everything...)

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Originally Posted by TomboyMom

It's true. They won't watch FOX news--too secular. The only TV they watch is TBN. They can get every kind of recreation and entertainment, even wrestling (Google Christian Wrestling) from purely Christian sources. They have created a mini-society inside the U.S. Only it's not tiny, like the Amish. It's huge.

Steve Bruce, author of God is Dead: Secularization in the West (or via: amazon.co.uk), has noted that also; he imagined a family participating in Xian just-about-everything.

funinspace · 10-11-2007, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by EthnAlln

Another important question: How long before we get Shiite rock music?

Shitty rock music?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=11182793
Hypernova is an indie-rock band from Tehran influenced by groups such as The Strokes, the Arctic Monkeys and Queens of the Stone Age. Their new CD is called Who Says You Can't Rock in Iran?; they recorded it illegally in their home country.

funinspace · 10-11-2007, 11:39 AM

I picked never in the poll, partly because the term evangelical is a very broad grouping. And many self proclaimed evangelicals fully participate in US culture/society. They go to R-rated movies, even listen to regular rock music, wink and node as they have pre-marital sex, et.al. How they keep the dichotomy all together, I have no idea, but they do none the less. And many are hardcore like missionary Baptists as well.

spacejunkie · 10-11-2007, 12:01 PM

Never.

"Forcing" people to... anything because of what they believe or even what they say is what forces people like me to open fire.

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Originally Posted by Robert Price

Well, when the sex barrier falls, the same fate is in store for Evangelical Christianity. (There never was a consistent Evangelical food boundary; even the Reformed drank alcohol.) And when the new generations are none too sure that non-believers are headed for hell, it becomes inevitable that American Evangelicalism will ease into the acid bath of American Pluralism. And it may happen sooner than you think. And then all those mega-churches will be up for sale. Unless of course they find a new product to sell. TV preacher Joel Osteen has done just that. His Evangelical belief is merely vestigial; he has converted to New Thought. It is no coincidence that he fills that stadium. Others may not be so lucky.

Evangelical Christianity is not new. However there is ample scientific evidence which seems to suggest that it is poo. New Thought is simply candy coated poo. And if you go from eating poo to eating candy coated poo then well, I guess you probably don't ever want to eat regular poo again. Evangelical ministries have been feeding irrational people for... Um... EVER! When irrational people become an endangered species then mega churches will go extinct. Until then they will be as prevalent as Micky D's. Also serving poo BTW :frown:

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10 Years	0	0%
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50 Years or more	8	21.05%
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10-11-2007, 11:39 AM	#23
funinspace Contributor Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: North West usa Posts: 10,245	I picked never in the poll, partly because the term evangelical is a very broad grouping. And many self proclaimed evangelicals fully participate in US culture/society. They go to R-rated movies, even listen to regular rock music, wink and node as they have pre-marital sex, et.al. How they keep the dichotomy all together, I have no idea, but they do none the less. And many are hardcore like missionary Baptists as well.

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