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Have they sold their possessions and given the money to the poor?
Why yes as a matter of fact they have. They live basicly on the road going from state to state, town to town feeding the homeless out of the back of a camper that belongs to the ministry they serve. They have also helped many people who have been addicted to drugs get their lives back and many of them are very successful and have families of their own now.
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Do they report theft of their property to the police? If they caught a thief stealing their TV, would they give him their radio too? Does their righteousness surpass that of the Pharisees?
As I said, they live on the road and so they dont have a tv or a radio. They have only the bare essentials which are a truck and a pull-behind camper in which they keep ALL of their belongings. Their are many churches along the way that help support them and all the good they do for others. They have dedicated their entire lives to doing what they do
Most fundamentalists don't consider themselves fundamentalists. They consider themselves "right" and anyone else is "bad" or "wrong".
That's all because of the computer. It used to be that fundamentalists were considered zealous and ambitious to the fervor of their health being nourished by God's word. There was the left group which wished a lot to escape the categorical life for labeling and connecting Who Knows What.
Fundamentalism in the middle east is similarly crossing out of an age of narrow minded beliefs.
In the New Age there are fewer narcissists now too.
That being said it seems you are confusing these things for somthing that a Christian MUST do. Nowhere is it said in the Bible that you must sell your belongings and give the money to the poor to be a Christian. I recall Jesus telling a man that wanted to join him and his desiples that he must sell everything, but that was only to JOIN HIM. Also, this was used as a test to see if the man was sincere about his intentions, which he apparently was not.
If you are an atheist, thats fine with me, but dont try to school me on the Bible. Dont cherry pick certain things out of it and throw it up at me with that AH-HA look on your face. Read the whole thing and maybe you will have a deeper understanding of the message, regardless of wether or not you beleive in it.
That being said it seems you are confusing these things for somthing that a Christian MUST do. Nowhere is it said in the Bible that you must sell your belongings and give the money to the poor to be a Christian. I recall Jesus telling a man that wanted to join him and his desiples that he must sell everything, but that was only to JOIN HIM. Also, this was used as a test to see if the man was sincere about his intentions, which he apparently was not.
If you are an atheist, thats fine with me, but dont try to school me on the Bible. Dont cherry pick certain things out of it and throw it up at me with that AH-HA look on your face. Read the whole thing and maybe you will have a deeper understanding of the message, regardless of wether or not you beleive in it.
By loonies, as in the OP, I meant the loonies that pry into private lives, demand legislation according to their likes and dislikes, those who become very angry and hostile to other opinions and lifestyles, the stone throwers, the finger pointers, and those who bless themselves for their righteousness.
What I wonder is why does America have such large numbers of them.
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