95 Theses Against Fundamentalism E-Book

Andrew Bushard

• Herausgeber: Free Press Media Press Inc.
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

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95 Theses Against Fundamentalism
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 174 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8368347868
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.59 x 8.5 inches
Price: Hardcover $24.99

This work encourages Revival by exposing the theological, ecclesiological, and missiological errors present in contemporary fundamentalist churches and organizations.

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95 Theses Against

Fundamentalism

©2022

Table of Contents

Copyright Page

Cover | by Kenya Pineda | Andrew Bushard | Kindly Reform Fundamentalism

Thesis One: | Kindly | Include Inclusivism and | Exclude Exclusivism

Thesis Three: | Kindly Purge Racism | from the Church

Thesis Four: | Kindly Deem | All War Victims “Worthy Victims”

Thesis Five: | Kindly Reconsider | Original Sin

Thesis Six: | Kindly Abandon | Authoritarianism

Thesis Seven: | Kindly | Reconsider Grace

Thesis Eight: | Kindly Don’t | Idolize and Worship the Media

Thesis Nine: | Kindly Eschew Pessimism

Thesis Ten: | Kindly Stop Romanticizing | the Past

Thesis Eleven: Kindly Stop Exaggerating

Thesis Twelve: Kindly Abandon Arrogance

Thesis Thirteen: | Kindly Discard Narcissism

Thesis Fourteen: | Kindly Accept Homosexuality

Thesis Fifteen: | Kindly Embrace Your Shadow

Thesis Sixteen: | Kindly Follow Uriah!

Thesis Seventeen: | Kindly Abolish Thought Crimes

Thesis Eighteen:

Thesis Nineteen: | Kindly Don’t Excommunicate People | for Writing | Trashy Books

Thesis Twenty:

Thesis Twenty One: | Kindly Stop Fundamentalist Missionaries

Thesis Twenty Two: | Kindly Choose Peace over Fundamentalism

Thesis | Twenty Three: | Kindly Watch | Your Intonation

Thesis | Twenty Four: | Kindly Realize Charity | Can Oppress

Thesis Twenty Five: | Kindly Reconsider Boasting | in the Lord

Thesis Twenty Six: | Kindly Keep | Prayer | Out of the Schools

Thesis | Twenty Seven: | Kindly Stop Theocracy

Thesis | Twenty Eight: | Kindly Praise Deism

Thesis | Twenty Nine: | Kindly Avoid Grandiosity

Thesis Thirty: | Kindly | Receive Rebuke, | If You | Give Rebuke

Thesis Thirty One: Kindly Don’t Complain about | Lack of Workers, When You Push Workers Away

Thesis Thirty Two: | Kindly Don’t | Resort to Trickery

Thesis Thirty Three: | Kindly Choose Unconditional Love

Thesis | Thirty Four: | Kindly Don’t | Idolize | Your House

Thesis Thirty Five: | Kindly Support | the Underdogs

Thesis Thirty Six: | Kindly Don’t “Get Addicted to Jesus”

Thesis Thirty Seven: | Kindly Encourage Hijab Wearing, | If You Consider | Lust a Sin

Thesis Thirty Eight: | Kindly Stop Fundamentalist Fatherhood

Thesis Thirty Nine: Kindly Don’t Discourage; Encourage

Thesis Forty: | Kindly Choose Vision | over Fundamentalist Myopia

Thesis Forty One: | Kindly Practice Discipline

Thesis Forty Two: Kindly Avoid | Toxic Masculinity

Thesis Forty Three: | Kindly Dump Hypocrisy

Thesis Forty Four: | Kindly Reject Brokenness

Thesis Forty Five: | Kindly Honor | John Brown

Thesis Forty Six: | Kindly Don’t Give Unsolicited Advice

Thesis Forty Seven: | Kindly Embrace Happiness, | Not Mania

Thesis Forty Eight: Kindly Avoid Conversational Narcissism

Thesis Forty Nine: | Kindly Avoid Insensitivity

Thesis Fifty: | Kindly Stop Neurotypical Bias

Thesis Fifty One: | Kindly Don’t Name Organizations | after Yourself

Thesis Fifty Two: Kindly Don’t Name Bible Editions | after Yourself

Thesis Fifty Three: Kindly End | Cancel Culture | in the Church

Thesis Fifty Four: Kindly Respect Other Countries

Thesis Fifty Five: | Kindly Remove Wine | from Communion

Thesis Fifty Six: Kindly Don’t | Suck Up to Pastors

Thesis Fifty Seven: Kindly Promote Other Faiths

Thesis Fifty Eight: Kindly Accept Prayer Requests, When You | Solicit Them

Thesis Fifty Nine: | Kindly | Pray Requests, | Not Demands

Thesis Sixty: | Kindly Stop | Passive Aggressiveness

Thesis Sixty One: Kindly Advance Small Business

Thesis Sixty Two: | Kindly | Support Palestine

Thesis Sixty Three: | Kindly Oppose Police Brutality

Thesis Sixty Four: Kindly Avoid Dogmatism

Thesis Sixty Five: Kindly Develop | a Theology of War

Thesis Sixty Six: Kindly Don’t Trample People’s Pearls

Thesis Sixty Seven: | Kindly Advance Social Justice

Thesis Sixty Eight: Kindly Stop Resisting Vaccines

Thesis Sixty Nine: | Kindly Attend | NA Meetings

Thesis Seventy: | Kindly Stop Condemning Millennials

Thesis Seventy One: | Kindly Don’t Misuse Prayer

Thesis Seventy Two: Kindly Improve Communication

Thesis | Seventy Three: | Kindly Respect Wait Staff

Thesis | Seventy Four: | Kindly Purge Phoniness

Thesis Seventy Five: | Kindly Respect Transgenderism

Thesis Seventy Six: Kindly Support Unions

Thesis | Seventy Seven: Kindly Learn from Other Faiths

Thesis | Seventy Eight: | Kindly Change Vulgarity Double Standards

Thesis | Seventy Nine: | Kindly | Stop | Persecution Complexes

Thesis Eighty: | Kindly Abandon | the Nonsense | that Unbelievers Can’t Do Good

Thesis Eighty One: | Kindly End Hot/Cold Manipulation

Thesis Eighty Two: Kindly Stop Micromanaging Prayer

Thesis | Eighty Three: | Kindly Respond with Empathy | to Disasters

Thesis Eighty Four: | Kindly Avoid Questions that | Belittle People

Thesis Eighty Five: Kindly Cease | One Upping

Thesis Eighty Six: Kindly Don’t Fabricate

Thesis | Eighty Seven: | Kindly Don’t Instigate

Thesis Eighty Eight: Kindly Purge | Insecurity

Thesis Eighty Nine: | Kindly Don’t Write Scripts for | Other People’s Lives

Thesis Ninety: | Kindly See Parallels between | the School System and Fundamentalism

Thesis Ninety One: Kindly Reconsider Sharing TMI

Thesis Ninety Two: | Kindly Stop | Guilt Tripping

Thesis | Ninety Three: | Kindly Learn Emotional Intelligence | and | Interpersonal Skills

Thesis Ninety Four: | Kindly Don’t Withhold | the Gospel

Thesis Ninety Five: | Kindly Join Fundamentalists Anonymous

Kindly Reform Fundamentalism

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by Kenya Pineda

Andrew Bushard

Kindly Reform Fundamentalism

Kindly let’s reform fundamentalism.

Some say we need a contemporary reformation in the church.  Some say we need a contemporary Martin Luther posting a contemporary 95 Theses.  I agree, so here I present to you my interpretation of how to do this.

I present to you 95 reasons why and how we should reform fundamentalism. 

Kindly let’s reform fundamentalism.

Thesis One:

Kindly

Include Inclusivism and

Exclude Exclusivism

We abhor the fundamentalist notion that belief in a fundamentalist God determines whether one goes to heaven or hell.

For a couple of decades now I have disbelieved in the idea that all non-Christians spend an eternity in hell.  I have wondered how could Gandhi be in hell, and according to some theologies, how could Mother Teresa be in hell?

Fundamentalists insist on believing “Jesus is the only way to heaven.” Later an encyclopedia and other sources informed me scholars call this belief Exclusivism.

Fundamentalists praise Billy Graham and C.S. Lewis, yet Adam Hamilton’s book When Christians Get it Wrong noted that Billy Graham and C.S. Lewis (among others like “Mainline Protestants”) have believed in Inclusivism, the idea that “you don’t have to know Jesus to know Jesus”, and to the point, you don’t have to know Jesus to go to heaven.

So let us side with Billy Graham and C.S. Lewis and reform Christianity so it includes inclusivism and excludes exclusivism.

I have had this insight for years that I couldn’t articulate.  It seemed that fundamentalists look and act like druggies and drunks.

Critics of Christianity have referred to fundamentalism as a drug.  As atheist Dan Barker put it in his song Just Say No to Religion, “Religion is a fiction, kinda like a drug addiction.”

My father, a fundamentalist, carried a Bible in one hand and a beer can in the other, so to speak.  Fundamentalism and alcohol addicted my father.  My high school Christian friends said, “A true Christian wouldn’t drink 8 beers a night like he does.”  Answering one of my friends’ inquiry about my parents, I informed him of my dad’s alcoholism and fundamentalism.  He noted, “Usually Fundamentalists don’t drink.”  To that, I add: fundamentalists tend to not drink, while embracing fundamentalism.

At the non-denominational Calvinist church I’ve been attending, I noticed something eerie: a pattern of former drug addicts embracing Calvinism.  I‘ve been encountering what seems like a pattern of former addicts (and sometimes current addicts) becoming Calvinist fundamentalists. 

A Salon.com article described a study that demonstrated fundamentalists had “brain damage” in the drug addiction region of the brain that is also responsible for tolerance (e.g. tolerance of homosexuality and other religions). 

I hate the toxicity of fundamentalists and druggies!  Sages tell us to guard ourselves against toxic people, so may we defend ourselves against fundamentalists.

Thesis Three:

Kindly Purge Racism

from the Church

I have observed church members act racist. 

As I wrote about before, when I worked at Opus 21, my coworkers of color mentioned they perceived a supervisor, an Apostolic Bible Institute (ABI) seminary student, to be racist. 

One time she discriminated against me and this black woman friend of mine, so a busybody overheard our discussion and tattled to this supervisor.  Then after consulting with a Puerto Rican coworker about sending a letter to this supervisor’s bosses about this, the Puerto Rican coworker said, “I would support it 100%.” So I reported this supervisor.

Most of the ABI students and I disfellowshipped each other and I reaped the fruit of friendships with people of color.  A coworker opined, “They call themselves Christian and they are racist!”

In high school our family attended a Wesleyan Church.  People remarked that the pastor’s son was racist, as among other things, he made racist slurs. 

After attending that church, our family attended an all-Black church, but behind closed doors, my father declared, “I don’t want my daughter dating a black man.” 

Kindly let’s purge fundamentalism of racism.