Re: Could it be Satan?

Date: 7 Jul 2003 08:20:09 -0700
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Tim Smith <email-address-deleted> wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
> In article <email-address-deleted>, Mike McKinley wrote:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3038434.stm
>
> OK, I can understand a Christian *elementary* *school* banning those books,
> and maybe even a Christian *high* *school*, but a Christian *college*???
You have to understand the mindset of the fundamentalist. Having
been there, I have some insight on what they're thinking: challenges
to one's faith are frowned upon, for one, and doing *anything* that
somehow isn't "giving honor and glory to Christ" is viewed with sus-
picion -- after all, there was quite the hubbub in the fundie Christian
community when Amy Grant, a woman well-known for her Christian music,
began to do "secular" (read as "not gushing 100% about how FABulous
Gawd was) music; many accused her of abandoning her faith. All that
for deigning to sing a song that *wasn't* "Oh, Gawd, Thou art ***SO***
big and wonderful....".
Given that the Bible does state that one should not suffer a witch to
live, among other things, sorcery and witchcraft and any other activity
that might impinge on such (like horoscopes, playing Dungeons&Dragons,
etc.) is considered to be putting one's soul in jeopardy.