Eternal Forces
The following is from a fellow KU-SOMA member concerning the militaristic rhetoric and values of extremist religious groups:
Sanity: Left Behind(via: AngryAstronomer)
I'll make no secret about it. I frequently wonder what goes on in the mind of the True Believer that makes them reject what most people would call common sense.
I'm not sure what it takes for someone to think that God is telling them to murder their children (1, 2), or that their faith in the literal truth of the bible is so strong that they can justify child molestation. It's enough for them to overlook their blatant hypocrisies when they claim to be pro-life, yet call for assassination of leaders or shooting illegal immigrants on sight. They'll laugh when Mohammed is the victim of satire in cartoons, but God forbid it be Jesus that's the target of fictional books and movies.
And just when I thought they couldn't get any dumber, they announce the plans to release a game based on the left behind series in which players enact virtual spiritual warfare, killing any non-believers they come across. The game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, is based on the best selling book series.
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posted by AManFromUz at 9:18 AM
2 Comments:
Trouble is in your use of the term "true believer". Christians are - sadly - as mixed up as the next guy. But what's a true believer? Someone who follows Jesus? Someone who believes in the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew Chapters 5 - 7)? If so then the vast majority of today's Christians are not true believers.
5:00 PM, June 04, 2006
In writing that article, I use "True Believer" to mean those that hold the bible as a literal, 100% factual, historical record.
That means that yes, the vast majority of Christians aren't true believers.
9:09 PM, June 17, 2006
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