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Originally Posted by Mobo123
Host, i read your reply with great interest. Do these F.C.'s REALLY believe in this religion crap? Are they truly serious? It is so far fetched, it sounds like L. Ron Hubbard wrote it.
Which brings me to this question: Who DID write this section of bible? From what i remember, the Bible wasnt 'faxed' down from heaven. What lunatic wrote this stuff? 
Are people really so naive, or so desparate or just so plain dumb that they take this stuff as truth? Wow.  |
Mobo, I'll take this chance to answer your questions, since I spent a good part of my life as an evangelical Christian. ("Spent" is the key word... I don't run with that crowd any longer.)
Yes, FC's (as you call them) REALLY do believe in that religion crap (as you call it). I lived and breathed Revelation (the last book of the Bible, predicting Armageddon) and all of the other books as well... that's a requirement for being a card-carrying evangelical. And I wasn't a Southern Baptist or anything of the sort... I was a confirmed Lutheran, and spent my college years at a Free Methodist university.
As for who wrote that section of the Bible... well, Host quoted from Matthew, so that is one of the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), written by the people they are named for. Revelation, which contains all the apocalyptic stuff, is accredited to John. He is supposed to have received a vision when he was on the island of Patmos, and hence the book of Revelation.
As for people being naive, desperate, and/or dumb... well, that's quite a jump to make. For myself, I had specific cultural, psychological, and other contextual reasons for being very religious, and none of them included being naive, desperate, or dumb. I wouldn't label any of my friends who are still "in the fold" with those adjectives. And yet, it does make you wonder. What IS this beast known as American Protestant (particularly evangelical) Christianity? What makes it interesting is that it occurs among one of the most highly educated and most wealthy populations in the world... and it simply won't go away.
I don't have an answer for you on the last one... that's for another thread's discussion. But I hope I have illuminated something of the movement from the inside out.