Anti-Creedance Front

Well, the war's coming to a halt, so now I have some more time on my hands. I was waiting to get really involved in Anti-Fundamentalist Front when things boiled over.

For those of you who don't know, I have been trying to start a group against religious fundamentalism for a year or two now, and my efforts have been largely ignored. Even my flyers on campus, which have not been ripped down, have drawn little to no attention. And people must have been looking at them, because a church with a dollar sign usually would draw people in.
This leads me to believe that while people are passionate about the situation in Iraq, they are apathetic when it comes to religion. Which could be a good thing. But barely anyone has said a thing to me about it, other than a psychology professor I talked to. And I would expect at least a little opposition from Campus Crusade. But nothing.

Therefore I am maybe thinking about putting together a Secular Humanist group on campus to stir things up. I had hoped I could assemble a coalition of people of different religions to work together and come to a mutual standpoint on religious extremism, but it seems I'll have to get partisan. Maybe people just don't know what fundamentalists do, but I know a lot of people who are strongly opposed to organized religion. My friend Tom is like I was a few years ago, fresh out from a parochial school and a die-hard atheist. So this is a last ditch effort I suppose. Is anyone still interested in making an interreligious group to fight fundamentalism? Otherwise here comes Whitewater Secular Student Alliance.

Richard1366

Go and picket the fundy churches on Sunday morning for about a half hour before the service with something like
"Religion Stops a Thinking Mind"
that should get you noticed and it's not against the law to do so.

hezekiah jones

I can see organizing some kind of freethought-type group on campus, but what would an "anti-fundamentalist" group do? How do the fundies affect your business, I guess is what I'm asking.

Anti-Creedance Front

Apparently some freak with a megaphone comes every fall and shouts at students to repent. I wasn't here for that last semester, but they're going to get a piece of my mind next year.

Anyway, fundamentalists are totally up in our face on campus. Campus Crusade has this thing they call "Do You Agree With Mike?" and as you can guess, what the question is, is do you think Jesus Christ is the savior of mankind, etc. etc. fundie bullshit.
My friend approached them, and he's an even stronger atheist than me (I'm an agnostic), and he said to them he was an atheist, and they started "praying for his soul" on the spot. They know that being completely up in others' faces would get them kicked off campus, so they use deceptive methods like this to lure people in.

And next year is going to be so fun, because the new VP of the student government is a member of Campus Crusade and the pro-life group on campus. I tried to bring up religious tolerance at the debate, but my question got canned.

I know many of you feel that fundies are just stupid, something to be made fun of, but they are a threat. I know most people aren't going to be like "wow, Jesus Christ, never heard of that guy before! you just saved my life!", but they are attempting to create a positive vibe for themselves in the public mind when they are so negative in their doctrine. I have seen them infiltrate the alternative music genres, and many "Christian" bands are getting popular, like P.O.D., Blindside, ZAO, Slick Shoes, etc. It's just getting to the point where they're learning to adapt, as they have before, to win "souls" for the next generation. I've seen plenty of people, including friends, fall to evangelization. In the early 90's it looked like they weren't going to make a revival this generation, and the only ones who would continue their traditions were their sons and daughters. But now it seems they have hopes of maintaining their shrinking following in the next millenia. But it basically comes down to their defamation of all opposition. As long as there's preachers screaming at us on the street to repent, we should pick up our damn megaphones and scream back at them!

Shake

He should make a point to approach them every time he sees them out there! Then remind them that they prayed for him last time, but it still hasn't worked!

Xian censorship and repression??? Say it isn't so!

Big threat on the CSS front! Yeah, get your megaphones and set them to 11!