Avi, that sounds like ALL WTS members.....like.....what they're coached to be.
Frannie
GREAT quote on fundamentalism. Spot on for JW's like PMJ
by avishai 14 Replies latest jw friends
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ColdRedRain
It's actually a quote from a Simpsons episode in reference to Jimmah Carter. I don't really mean that he's history's greatest monster. Personally, I think the guy's trying to get some attention before he kicks the bucket.
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144001
Personally, I think the guy's trying to get some attention before he kicks the bucket.
How much more attention would one want in addition to having been president of the USA? Personally, I think you're trying to get attention by posting disparaging comments about someone that many on this thread have expressed respect and/or concurrence with.
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avishai
Whoa, hold on!! I'm totally cool with CRR being critical of Jimmy Carter, plenty of folks on here are VERY critical of the current prez.Personally, I admire what he's done AFTER he got out of office, election watch, etc. I had a friend who worked with him on a habitat for humanity house maybe two or three yrs. ago, and Jimmy out worked all the twenty yr. olds, and he was in his late seventies. Any ex leader of one of the biggest countries in the world that goes regularly swings a hammer to help the needy, well, he's got my respect.
But, so does CRR, his comments are usually factual and well researched, I have yet to see him talk out of his ass.
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jaffacake
I welcome the quote being posted. All don't have to agree but I believe in freedom of speech. JWs are fundamentalists. I was once an adventist and therefore a fundamentalist for the same reasons JWs and many other Christian religions are fundamentalists. I now know I was wrong, and exactly why I was wrong. My enlightenment makes my Christian faith infinitely stronger....let me share another quote.... from Keith Ward:The most misleading thing about fundamentalist use of the Bible is that it misunderstands, not just some specific texts, but the whole nature of the Bible itself. It imposes upon the Bible a view of revelation that is alien to the Bible, and that the Bible refutes, by its form, its character and by its content.
That alien view is that revelation consists of a set of clear doctrines uttered by God and put directly, without any human interpretation, onto the pages of Scripture. Fundamentalists select some passages to provide such doctrines, straight from the mouth of God, but have to ignore huge amounts of Bible writing, but they get away with it because most people do not know the Bible well enough to refute them.
To refute them however, there is no need to deny the texts they cite, but simply instead to point out what the nature of Biblical revelation is. It is not a set of doctrines, and it does not record the thoughts of God without any human interpretation. We need to read it carefully to see just what it is. But once we have seen that, we can never be tempted by fundamentalism again.