493 - New quote

After posting the "you make me sick" banner in my last post I had a thought that I've just turned into a quote.

Jesus was not a fundamentalist.
If he was we would all still be Jewish.

So then I thought, I wonder if anybody has thought of this before. I googled the first line. Only SIX hits! And none with the second line! A new quote is born!

I'm not going to think about this to much because anybody can pick anything apart, especially me. Post and go!

Here's some stuff from the one of the hits I did get. They're from 2006.

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I wonder if the rise of fundamentalism is a direct result to the increased anxiety of our culture. Jesus was not a fundamentalist. He struggled with the fundamentalists of his age, who by their own anxiety determined they would provide a pure path for people to follow and looked down all others who refused to follow.

We live in an age increased uncertainty. We no longer have clear enemies, what we thought we could count on has gone. We are in every measurable way better off than any previous generation, yet there a feeling that there is something wrong. Fundamentalism provides the certainty we long for.

Comment by kent — August 25, 2006



Here's some text from the site.

There is a conviction among Neo-Fundamentalists that one can’t err if one gets too conservative, but that is the sin of what I called “zealotry.”

What I can’t understand is why people want to go there: its history is predictable. Though I’m no prophet, this is what I think might occur:

It will become insular and separatistic,
it will become divisive and accusatory from within,
it will lack grace,
it will create Christians who are not free in the Spirit but who will be rigid and intolerant,
it will become socially withdrawn,
it will lose a prophetic voice because it will lose contact with culture,
it will attract angry, defensive, and mean-spirited individuals… I could go on.