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fundamentalism

Danger – woman teaching? Hoist on her own petard.

February 15, 2010

I hadn’t previously had anything to say about the latest outbreak of fundamentalist misogyny in the Church of England: the vicar and curate outraging their congregation by telling women to shut up and submit to their husbands.
Subsequently, it seems that the leaflet of “biblical” teaching on women was not the work of the Reform vicar, [...]

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Ugandan Talibanglicans and the insane Christian Voice

December 22, 2009

I haven’t bothered before to blog on the odious Ugandan proposals for the judicial murder of gay people. It seems to me that most expressions of Western outrage and condemnation are more likely than not to be counter-productive. However, I note from Richard Bartholomew that the laughing stock of the self-proclaimed Christian Voice, Stephen Green, [...]

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I’m not a “Christian” – maybe I can be a scholar.

December 4, 2009

Pat McCullough has a good post with some good comments sparked by Dan Wallace’s odd broadside against liberals and their biases. In that earlier post Wallace claimed that “most biblical scholars are not Christians”. (I note in passing that real secular scholars think the shoe is on the other foot.)
Among other links, Pat draws us [...]

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Why I hate fundamentalists

November 15, 2009

I’m not entirely sure what they are, but I do hate them. I had an interesting pub conversation this evening with someone whose staring point was this: “If you believe in the Bible, surely you can’t believe evolution is true.” (Even Jim West accepts that I’m “an evolutionist and still a priest!” – note, however, [...]

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KJV onlyism: now a denomination near you

October 17, 2009

Turning KJV-onlyisim into a denomination seems to be the aim of this website. Amazingly it begins its statement of faith like this:

We believe the King James “Authorized Version” Bible to be the perfect and infallible word of God. We believe the Bible was inspired in its origination and then divinely preserved throughout its various generations [...]

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A site beyond satire

September 30, 2009

It’s been a while since I blogged about Conservapedia. Today James McGrath has another “read it and weep” post about their latest project.
As with every single entry, it is impossible to tell whether it’s serious or spoofed. I suspect the latter, because it would take a particular bent of conservative mind to come up with [...]

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I’m sorry, but America needs to get a brain

September 11, 2009

I am stunned tonight to learn that the film Creation (which I am really looking forward to seeing), has not yet got a US distributor. I’d like to thank this helpful review at the Panda’s Thumb for telling me that brain bending fact. I can see no other reason than a general fearfulness that mention [...]

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The difference between a conservative and a fundamentalist? Pants!

August 24, 2009

(Updated 25/08/09: see below)
I think an argument between Claude Mariottini and a fundamentalist opponent illustrates the distinction between conservatives and fundamentalists well.
I begin by noting that I am tremendously impressed by Claude’s patience as he picks apart a particularly stupid argument. Claude had posted a long reasoned argument which concluded:
The law in Deuteronomy 22:5 is [...]

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Conservapedia and conservatism beyond satire

August 23, 2009

Tim (having followed some of yesterday’s link-love) notes that he googled the question “Is Conservapedia supposed to be satire?” I had wondered the same thing the first time I discovered it back in the days of my metacatholic existence.
Tim didn’t tell us what results his search returned, so I googled the phrase myself. Fascinatingly these [...]

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