Going back and re-reading the title of this thread I realised that I'm no closer to knowing what God thinks of Fundamentalists. I'm now quite knowledgable about what Dr Scott thinks about them, since his opinion is plastered everywhere on this thread, although not by himself, but by his self-appointed mouthpiece. So I'm left wondering if these views are really those of Dr Scott or are just his mouthpiece's opinions of his views, distorted or otherwise.
To be honest, I don't think that God is bothered about whether you take the Bible literally or not, as long as you follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and try to live your life in the way that He instructed. There are all sorts of baubles and bells that can be attached, but if the core teachings are followed then God will not condemn you for the baubles and bells. However, if the baubles and bells come into conflict with the teachings of Jesus Christ then you might be on a sticky wicket.
If I stand on the rooftops and profess my faith in Jesus, in the fact that He died for me and that I will follow His teachings to ensure eternal life AND AT THE SAME TIME drop great pointy rocks on innocent passers by, all the while proclaiming "Thou shalt not kill", then no matter how loudly I profess my faith, I expect God would turn his back on me. That's a very convoluted way of saying that people should practice what they preach.
Willowtree, you've managed to alienate everyone on this forum. In this strand you haven't got a single voice of support. Now, why would that be? You know I don't have much truck with fundamentalism, but if that's what floats someone's boat, then fine by me, as long as they don't force me to do the same. So why do you think that someone with opinions like mine can't even support you? I'll tell you why I can't. It's because you've been spiteful, vindictive and hateful. Your attempt to "excommunicate" someone made me laugh out loud at your sheer stupidity and arrogance. Are you God's Messenger? Did a big finger point down from the sky and a voice cry "Its You"? The way you are going on here anyone would think that you were the embodiment of the Second Coming of Christ or a raving lunatic.
You can carry out all the intellectual theologising you like, but that doesn't make your nastiness right. What you called fundamentalists was an obscenity and totally uncalled for. I'm not surprised that buzsaw is angry and offended. To be honest, I'm suprprised that Admin haven't stepped in. This thread is nothing but bile and hatred, a spouting of poisonous views from a self-styled Christian who couldn't get further from the real message of Christianity if he sold his soul to the Devil.
I have decided that from now on I am boycotting any of your threads as I resent wasting my valuable time in discussion with a person who hasn't the first ideas of how to behave in a sociable way and who thinks it acceptable to throw obscenities at people who don't believe in exactly the same way as they do. You have done so much damage to the reputation of your precious Dr Scott that I think you owe the guy an apology. The way you have misrepresented and misinterpretted Paul has done nothing to enlighten anyone except to the fact that your ignorance and hate knows no bounds. If I had only your views to go on, I would run away from Christianity faster than greased weasel droppings. Luckily, my faith rests on more than just partisan distortions of the Bible.
Lastly I apologise to Admin for this diatribe. Willowtree has been getting away with this sort of obnoxious behaviour for as long as I've been around. This just happens to be about the worst I've seen. In my haze of painkillers, something snapped and the little fireworks went off in my head. I'm now off for a well-earned lie down and another handful of Happy tablets.
Oh, and Willowtree, you can see this as so much handwaving with no argument of substance, you can see this as a shouted list of insults from someone who "knows they've lost the argument", as you're bound to claim, you can see this as vindication of your opinions. It's none of the above. Take it from the writer, this is my way of saying "Bugger off Willowtree and take your vindictive hatred as far away from me as possible. Now!!!"
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