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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:02 PM
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Well, I've finally coined a reasonable term for far-righteous fundamentalism.
Christopathology.
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WingDinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:15 PM
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1. Why not use the biblical term? Stumbling block. And that is the worst sin you may commit
save the unpardonable sin.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:18 PM
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2. Probly because I don't know beans about the Bible.
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WingDinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:37 PM
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4. Then why are you defining people you dont know shit about?
Edited on Thu Jun-02-11 03:39 PM by WingDinger
Sounds a little righteous!:evilgrin:
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:48 PM
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5. I don't need to know about the Bible in order to know about some of its purported
followers.

Nor do I have anything in particular against Christians. Just those who have twisted a basic message of love, of which I heartily approve, into one of hate.
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WingDinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:51 PM
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10. just checkin'
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:21 PM
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3. FWIW: Fundamentalism IS the term for the "far-righteous."
Edited on Thu Jun-02-11 03:21 PM by laconicsax
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fundamentalism
Fundamentalism
[fuhn-duh-men-tl-iz-uhm]
-noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection, atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:50 PM
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7. Believe it or not, there are conservative Christians who are politically liberal.
Check out Jim Wallis & Sojourners magazine if you want a primo example.
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 04:04 PM
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12. And?
How does the existence of politically liberal conservative Christians affect the definition of "fundamentalism?"
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 04:08 PM
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15. It doesn't. But "far-righteous" (another term of my invention)
is meant to imply fundamentalist Christianity mixed with authoritarian ideology.
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 05:13 PM
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17. I understand.
My only comment is that fundamentalism carries with it an authoritarian mindset with God and the Bible as the Authority, so I just see "far-righteous" as a bit redundant in that respect.
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LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 04:07 PM
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14. I like "far-righteous" nt
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:49 PM
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6. I prefer "hypochristian" myself.
And I have a copyright on that term, too.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:51 PM
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8. So I was forced to invent another term
to avoid violating your copyright.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:58 PM
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11. I was kidding about the copyright.
Use hypochristian if you like. Spread it far and wide.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 04:06 PM
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13. I like your term too.
And have already stolen it. I was kidding about the copyright stuff too.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 04:08 PM
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16. And yours is rather clever, as well.
I might use it myself.

Geez, aren't we just a disgusting mutual admiration society?
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 03:51 PM
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9. I use "Rabid Religious Right"
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indy legend Donating Member (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:25 PM
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20. The 3 R's replacing reading, riting and ritmatic, none of which are a priority for Conservatives
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MemeSmith Donating Member (183 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 05:26 PM
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18. Or, given their likely worldview, we could say...

Christophrenia
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:12 PM
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19. Hunter Thompson used "godsuckers"
I always liked that one: it has a beautiful double entendre of "fool" and oral sex, and it's just a crude epithet with that nasty hard consonant sound.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 09:13 PM
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21. Christo-Fascism.
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