Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2003-09-28 06:23 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-09-28 06:23 pm
New spam tactics, religion, fundamentalism.
The spammers are now offering to set me up with Christian singles, advising me that some person from church wants me.
Church isn't exactly the place where I would go looking for love, to be quite honest... especially as most churches and I stay away from each other, and are content with the arrangement. Though I do have more, religiously, in common with Christians than with atheists. The last time I was in an actual church-as-such, I figured out that I agreed with 70% of that church's fundamental beliefs, and the ones that I disagreed on had specifically to do with the literal (as opposed to figurative) life, existence, conception, and resurrection of Jesus, and the literal monopoly of Jesus on enlightenment.
I think the fundamental problem with fundamentalists is that their minds cannot stretch to wrap around the parables, the ones that aren't marked out as such but are anyway, not flexible enough to be woken up and do the mental gymnastics that are indicated, and while their way may work for them, it solidifies their minds so much that they can't conceive of anyone else reaching the same destination by a different path.
Church isn't exactly the place where I would go looking for love, to be quite honest... especially as most churches and I stay away from each other, and are content with the arrangement. Though I do have more, religiously, in common with Christians than with atheists. The last time I was in an actual church-as-such, I figured out that I agreed with 70% of that church's fundamental beliefs, and the ones that I disagreed on had specifically to do with the literal (as opposed to figurative) life, existence, conception, and resurrection of Jesus, and the literal monopoly of Jesus on enlightenment.
I think the fundamental problem with fundamentalists is that their minds cannot stretch to wrap around the parables, the ones that aren't marked out as such but are anyway, not flexible enough to be woken up and do the mental gymnastics that are indicated, and while their way may work for them, it solidifies their minds so much that they can't conceive of anyone else reaching the same destination by a different path.