It seems like fundamentalist Christians are more hated than other types of Christians, when talking with certain unbelievers I get this impression. Is there a reason for this?
I can think of a few scripture references:
Matthew 5:10-12, Luke 6:22-23, John 15:18-25, Galatians 4:29, 2 Timothy 3:10-13, 1 John 3:11-15, 1 John 4:5-6, 1 John 5:19, John 7:7.
I think it unfair to implicate most people as hating Fundamentalists.
Jesus told us that we would be hated by the world just as the world hated him. Would it not then be fair to say that Christians are able to be hated because they are members of the body of Christ? Rather than target one community within that body as adorned with the label of most hated?
Fundamentalism sticks to the fundamentals of Jesus' ministry. Not a popular idea in a world that is sliding more and more toward darkness. Especially as this being my back yard, America.
I was visiting friends over the past weekend and their teenage son was watching television in the family room.
I ventured in to see what was programming now days since it has been years since I've watched broadcast TV.
I was not all that surprised. The ultra-left wing politic in the secular world of American politics is growing more and more in their pursuits.
And as it appears so far there's no authority that's about to reign that back. The SCOTUS while a 9 panel court has become an impossible to miss activist body. The Congress is left leaning while purportedly against the leftist in the oval office.
We have SSM legalized now, while opposition to that is able to be prosecuted under law, which means our religious liberties are being compromised as the first protected class. When a sex act is considered worthy of legal protection that should have been the first warning of the downward slide.
We have Trans persons able to overcome others civil rights, offend employers, sue employers, individuals, for not complying with any number of new self-identity labels of choice.
We have a homo-gender-affirming activist group allowed entry into public schools, while a pastor seeking the same access is either forbidden or persecuted , even prosecuted for making the attempt.
So when I sat in that family room and watched television for that half hour I wasn't surprised at all to see that the Devil's programming is enormous.
The Exorcist, is now a TV show!
Lucifer has escaped Hell and is now living in, no surprise, the city of angels.
Occult programming is huge on TV now.
And worse, there are humanist pastors tallying thousands of persons in their pews. Because they're preaching the ultra-liberal interpolated wordly feel good doctrine.
Is it a surprise when the fundamentals being reiterated in a world like that is opposed?
The world's going to Hell! If you aren't on the side that greases the slope downward, you're the one in the wrong.
But it is all as foretold. Take heart. God's in charge.