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The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Things I Have Learned: Chapel Talks
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February 5th, 2010
Greenville Syndrome in Hindsight
If the 20th-century culture wars were as real as we were taught — and how many times did I leave Whirlybirds convinced that the world would collapse before I woke in the morning? — and if Bob Jones University really is the West Point of Christian Fundamentalism, then I think I finally understand this song. A little.
I was so gung-ho to lay down my whole life for a constructed fight for a pristine good and against a clear evil. . . . we all were. And when you’re fighting — especially when that fight is more about resurrecting a “good war” than anything else — it doesn’t even matter who is wrong and who is right. The fight is everything. That’s how complete the training is.
And we lost in Vietnam too.
February 5th, 2010
Fred Says :
We even had our own domino theory. You couldn’t give an inch in any area, or it cause you to slide down that slippery slope.
Listening to the song, I got an interesting image in my head of a bunch of fundies passing around a hash pipe.
February 10th, 2010
mark rosedale Says :
“it doesn’t even matter who is wrong and who is right. The fight is everything.” So very true. It seems that today the fight is more important than what is right. Take the whole drinking scandal at BJU…forget which teacher wrote the book and simply refused to say the Bible outright condemns drinking. For that all hell breaks loose within fundamentalism.