Fox news is reporting that a "Fundamentalist church" will be protesting and celebrating at the funeral of Army Spc. Megan L. Touma - the young lady found dead in a hotel room two weeks ago. They speak of Westboro Baptist church in Kansas - a group that has become infamous for picketing at soldiers funerals - and is a group that is neither a church nor fundamental, but rather a perverse group of cult-like members that call themselves a church.
These folks are about as despicable as they come. Sadly, this feeds the confusion of millions of Americans who will hear the word "fundamental" and lump Bible believing churches in with groups like this.
Tag any religionist with the epithet, "fundamentalist" and he or she becomes instantly evil. The reverse works as well, which I think is your point, attribute any evil you come across as arising from "fundamentalism" and the formula for marginalizing and ostracizing any person of religious conviction is derived. I agree with you, calling those Westboro devils "fundamentalists" is just a surreptitious effort to paste all of us with their odiousness. Whatever happened to "can't we all just get along?"
ReplyDeleteBTW, got any ideas about how to deal with those Westboro nuts that doesn't wind up as fighting fire with fire?
yes, that's exactly what's happening - marginalization of Bible believing Christians with the label of "fundamental", carefully excluding any distinction, and viola!
ReplyDeleteTo answer your final question I think a good start would be a grass roots movement by Christian bloggers to outline the differences and show where Westboro is actually unbiblical in their stance.
After this latest funeral "picket" there will be thousands of hits on Google for them and how great would it be for searchers to land on a page telling them the truth?!
That's not a bad idea!
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