Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses way away, fundamentalist Christians have built their own idols to represent God until Jesus returns. The religion of fundamentalism is idolatry.
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The god [they call] to bless [their] antigay campaign is an idol that [they] have created from a string of unrelated biblical verses read literally to sanction their prejudice and consolidate their power.
We’ve seen this demigod before. The Roman Catholic Church called upon him to bless their bloody inquisitions and crusades. Fiery frontier preachers called upon him to bless their war against Native Americans. White Southern Christians called upon him to bless their efforts to preserve slavery and segregation. White Northern Christians called upon him to bless their efforts to prevent women’s suffrage and obstruct child labor laws.
These same fundamentalists who persecute my brothers and sisters wear bracelets that read “What Would Jesus Do?” If only they would take that question seriously.
A Christian understands who God is by looking closely at Jesus. Any lesser god is an idol, and anyone who worships that lesser god is an idolater in God’s eyes.
[Taken from “Religion Gone Bad” by Mel White.]
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