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Bible-belt denier?! I mean, really.

@ephraimanesti: Thanks very much for your story - you've had quite a spiritual life history! I shall check out the "Christ The Eternal Tao" book - thanks. @AlexBP: Thanks for the GK Chesterton mention, and those websites - I'll check up on those too. @E.C.: Another interesting path ending in...

Thanks for your thoughts on this - interesting to hear a Brit's eye view within the US. I'm sure you're right about the stereotyping that goes on; pretty much everyone does it at one time or another.

Phew, that showed me ;) ... The para above is a torrent of baseless accusations; it reads quite well, but has no substance whatsoever. Do you generally lash out at people who ask reasonable questions?

Where is the stereotype? Name me another major region of Christendom with anything like the proportion of Christian fundamentalists as the Bible Belt. You talk about rudeness! Consigning in your mind billions of innocent men, women and children to be tortured for eternity in Hell because they...

I offered an olive branch, and you spit on my hand by being hypocritical and making threats. Edit: Only just noticed what I did in my reply to 357magnum: I used the term "Christendom", the meaning of which is, in effect, "the dominion of Christ" - semantically the same as "Jesusland". I...

Has anyone become a Christian after spending many years researching other religions? Or perhaps after living and working in a variety of different religious environments? In other words, someone who has been an extensive "seeker" who finally decided on some form of Christianity. It would be...

So when you referred to me as Einstein, you weren't being sarcastic?! Listen, I think this little spat is 50:50 - I'm perhaps being too combative, you're perhaps being overreactive.

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Nope, that's an "It does because it does" argument. Besides, Christ's name wasn't "Jesus", it was "Yeshua". Seems to me that He'd be offended by your not using His given name when you know perfectly well what it is. Note my consistent use of upper-case H in pronouns, even though I'm not a...

That's just my perception, and I think most people would find these factors to be self-evident. Neither of my two suggestions is a value judgment, by the way. If I'd repeated the common accusation by Europeans: "Americans are stoopid, which is why so many of them are fundies" - now that I...

Why on earth do you find it offensive? Is Jesus, or is He not, the most admired human ever to have lived, among Christians at least? I referred to the Bible belt, not the South. Note also the forum within which I posted this; if I'd posted it in the Mid West, South West, or South East, you...

I appreciate the replies - you've expanded my understanding :)

Thanks for reply guys. Targ, your thought about the Christian momentum behind US settlement makes sense.

Thanks each and every one of you for your replies; you've all put some thought into it and not just rattled off a quick casual rejoinder. I've a bit of trouble empathizing with some of the points, but I'll mull over what you said. Grazie.

Erm ... not really (tho thanks for the reply); the question is why is there such a high proportion of fundamentalists in this region?

Good point there. :blush: I suppose I'm effectively asking why the Bible Belt is so strongly fundamentalist.

Any theories on why ground zero for creationist belief is in the US Bible Belt? An extra question: Are there any creationists who don't believe in satan, demons, angels, etc.?

The prime goal of Christianity seems to be about saving oneself, and that good works, i.e. altruistic actions, are subsidiary to this. It's a perfectly justifiable and natural imperative, but it is self-centered. In addition, I imagine that most people think concern for others (altruism) is...

I don't think I unfairly stereotyped. :confused: The epicentre of conservative/fundamentalist Christianity in the West is the US "Bible belt".