PeaceByJesus
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There is animosity in mainline churches against conservative and fundamentalist Christians, this being in the form of liberals versus conservatives, since mainliners are overall liberal (including many Catholics) and fundamentalist evangelicals are conservatives.I have noticed there seems to be a lot of animosity to mainline Protestant churches on this forum. I find this curious because there isn't nearly as much animosity in mainline churches against conservative and fundamentalist Christians, as vice versa.
And the animosity is to be expected, since the latter hold to Scripture as being the wholly inspired and accurate word of God, and thus are the most unified in core beliefs/values among major religious groups, and the most committed, and tend to reflect the attitude of Scripture against rejection of such, and point out the offenses.
However, liberals tend to see themselves as the enlightened elite and oversensitive to reproof, and to respond more by overall demonizing those who oppose them as "haters," "homophobic," "bigots," and such psychological use of language, while blind to their own bias and animosity.
When you really believe in something you should be willing to die for then it should be expected that this is expressed in words and deeds. Yet whether you see it or not, it seems that neither you nor certain other mainliners are too busy getting on with their lives to debate religions that mostly seem (to them) interested in only vilifying them.Most of us are too busy getting on with our lives to debate religions that mostly seem interested in only villifing us. Some of us (though not necessarily myself), the ones with front-row seats in the Kingdom of God, are just "too blessed to stress".
Paradoxically, many of these liberals identify with a church that did far more than simply vilify those who ideologically opposed her.
If any mainliners do hold to Scripture being the wholly inspired and accurate word of God then the issue is how does this describe the attitude toward those who reject this authority and its universal moral laws.
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