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Well, my response was to a typical attack (by GingerBeer this time) on evangelical and fundamentalist groups as being the bad guys since they "publish a lot of anti-liberal, anti-cult, and anti-catholic literature," and indeed there should be no censure of being against cults, but since liberals being liberals means they are against theological or Biblical moral dogmatism then they tend to have a knee-jerk reaction against "Bible Christians" who oppose them.
And since they like to imagine themselves as enlightened tolerant folks then they tend to present themselves as the protectors of the big bad conservative evangelical-types, with the most they do, as i was told in a recent thread, was to "set out pew cards, which are given to the Evangelism team, who go out and call upon these poor saps and try to lead them to Christ--learning."And who are mostly Christian already.
To who i was happy to provide research in my response that they likely provided most (among Christian groups) of the humanitarian aid from private donations in 3rd world countries, while evangelical must have the overall priority, but which is not to be divorced by aid for the whole person. In my area, it is mainly such who are doing the actual work on the street.
Of course it is the liberals who manifest themselves as being the most intolerant of public opposition, and often respond to what refutes them by calling their reprovers "haters," "bigots," "homophobic" etc.. And who would were turn America in to the snowflake society we read daily about in universities, with the devil as the dean being a proxy servant to promote the demonic victim-entitlement mentality that the devil first manifested in the first "occupy movement" (Isaiah 14:14) and its selfish "share the wealth" demand seen therein and in the garden of Eden. (Genesis 3). And yet some wonder why we should oppose it.
As for Catholics being lumped together with cults, i think they also were lumped together in the sense of being victims of the neanderthal fundamentalists, who are more or less lumped together with Westboro Baptist types by the same tolerant, fair-minded objective enlightened liberal elites.
I think he meant that Protestants over all seem to have an obsession with Cults, Occults, and End times prophecy. I know many protestants who can't have a theological discussion without talking about the mark of the beast or something similar, always tying it up to how the Catholic church is the new world order type stuff. This is so far from my experiences since finding Orthodoxy, where people generally just want to discuss growth and love, or communion- or just acting like a family of believers, instead of constantly going off blasting those we disagree with and finding every little thing that could possibly be labeled satanic.
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