Bay of Fundie

You’ve probably heard that Texas will soon require that all 6th grade girls be vaccinated against HPV, which causes cervical cancer. I’m surprised that a conservative state like Texas is taking the lead on this, and by a Republican governor no less. Needless to say, many fundies would rather let their daughters die [...]

I love picking on Bill Johnson and his indecent “American Decency Association”. It’s a third-tier fundie pressure group that thinks too much of itself. It has small-dog syndrome. You’ve seen those little yippie-dogs (chihuahuas, pekinese, etc.) that think they’re masters of their domain. They bark a lot. They think they’re [...]

Through a proxy, of course. I guess God and Satan are like the U.S. and U.S.S.R. during the Cold War—too afraid to fight each other directly, so they do it through Vietnam, Korea, and crappy TV shows.
This news comes to us via the Baptist Press article North Greenville Univ. alum appears on ‘American Idol’.
Chris [...]

Baptist Press has released a long, omnibus article that summarizes all of this week’s “threats” to “real” marriage. In their article MARRIAGE DIGEST, they try to overwhelm us with all of the imminent perils. Let’s look at some of them and see how scared we get, shall we? This is more fun [...]

Baptist Press reminds us to hate locally and think globally, in their article Rankin urges 43 new missionaries to ‘look, love & live’ for Christ:
While walking in a small town in Thailand years ago, Richard Blount spotted some Buddhists entering a temple and sensed his first heart-tug for missions.
“I witnessed several Thais … bowing down, [...]

Baptist Press reports Tornado damages 4 dorms, chapel at Fla. conference center:
A tornado touched down at Florida Baptists’ Lake Yale Conference Center at 3:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2, causing extensive damage to its North Camp area as a series of storms tore across central Florida in the early morning hours.
So why is it that every [...]

Here’s more wisdom from Tony Perkins of the Fundie Research Council: an article titled Spiritual State of the Union. He references an article in the Washington Times (a Moonie newspaper, BTW). Here’s a paragraph from the Times article:
Believers are many: 82 percent of the respondents believe in God, while 13 percent believe [...]