Pope Benedict XVI: condoms make Aids crisis worse

[FUCK THE POLICE]

What is your religious background, if I may ask?

I grew up in a Missionary Baptist church my family seems to have attended since before my grandfather was born. They were extremely fundamentalist - young Earth creationists etc...

I suppose they're not as bad as the NEW kind of fundamentalism, which tries to be more "hip" to draw in young people, playing rockish Christian music and speaking in tongue. They want people to be angry and declare "war" on this sinful world. I went to one of those churches for a short period of time, and they are the ones who are probably driving the growth of fundamentalism the most, rather than the old timey fundamentalists. They are definitely more scary than traditional fundamentalism.

Haha...I've heard that before. One of my friends didn't want Jesus to come back until she was married. It would seem there are many fundamentalist Christian ladies who feel the same way. Hmm...I wonder why.

Yeah, they probably read a bible verse the wrong way. There's been peace in the middle east before, and it didn't end the world.

 

[Damocles]

Oh for God's sakes! No evengelical minister would ever, ever, molest little boys. There to afraid someone would think they were dancing.

Duh.

Isn't that like saying people breathe?

 

[Minister of Truth]

Maybe.

Were they baptists? A majority in Mississippi is southern Baptist. Maybe I'm just unusually prejudiced against them, because they're the majority, and this is a rather far right place, maybe I just associate the two.

But whenever I think of evangelicals, I think of the political positions that are espoused in The Mississippi Baptist, a newspaper which I am for some strange reason still sent. I finger through it every now and again for laughs.

Maybe you're talking about mainline protestants? Mainline protestantism and Catholicism are the more moderate kinds of Christianity. But they are shrinking, while the atheists and evangelicals grow exponetially. We're headed to a religiously polarized future.

Mainline Protestants such as Lutherans, Methodists, and Episcopalians may be shrinking, but Catholicism is growing the same as Evangelicalism. Atheism is growing as well, of course, and faster.