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Politicub

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16. In the 80s, fundies were obsessed with end-times theology. This is
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 11:16 AM
Jun 2021

the period of time when I was brought to church three times a week - twice on Sunday and every Wednesday. America was regarded as sodom, and congregants worked themselves into a frenzy about how their enemies would be punished.

After I left for college, the only times I was exposed to toxic Baptists and Pentecostals services was at funerals. I noticed by 2000 that they had started to merge nationalism with the core message of apocalypse. The merging of right-wing politics and evangelicals has been intensifying, apparently, based on the handful of funeral sermons I have sat through over the past ten years.

Now the churches operate as super PACs.

I hear you Skittles Jun 2021 #1
I've seen that bumpersticker!! Imallin4Joe Jun 2021 #3
If the love Jesus, why don't they follow any of his teachings? nt SunSeeker Jun 2021 #7
Secular humanist here... SergeStorms Jun 2021 #2
The fundies I knew in the 60s were a little different. raging moderate Jun 2021 #4
The ones I knew Jilly_in_VA Jun 2021 #5
That was before the fundies became wnylib Jun 2021 #10
Yes. That was what my fundie church people said. raging moderate Jun 2021 #11
In the 80s, fundies were obsessed with end-times theology. This is Politicub Jun 2021 #16
Amen StarryNite Jun 2021 #6
So be it. Please! nt pazzyanne Jun 2021 #8
I'm no atheist but I can tell you that type of prayer taps into a higher power and it works bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #9
I want to believe in something the same way that you believe.. Imallin4Joe Jun 2021 #17
No comprehensive study of divergent religions in civilizations is complete bucolic_frolic Jun 2021 #18
Reminds me of Mark Twain's "War Prayer", like a modern... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #12
Well stated. Amen, and thank you. LastDemocratInSC Jun 2021 #13
Thank you as well. Imallin4Joe Jun 2021 #15
Amen. ... electric_blue68 Jun 2021 #14
Amen demigoddess Jun 2021 #19
AMEN! 634-5789 Jun 2021 #20
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