Have you ever met a liberal Christian who was an extreme exclusivist?
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« on: February 27, 2009, 03:16:44 AM »

And by that I mean mostly toward fundies the way fundies are toward other religions. Talking about how fundie churches are abominations of lies and false and all that. I'm surprised it isn't more common, but I've seen it. I did once meet someone who from what I gathered seemed to believe that liberal to mainline Protestants and non-serious Catholics went to heaven and everyone else including evangelical Christians and serious practicing Catholics went to hell. Please note she was rather crazy in general.

Also I heard about some teens in Texas who tried to blow up an Assembly of God church calling it an abomination toward God and wrote about how they wanted to destroy every fundie church in the country.
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2009, 03:34:52 AM »

Interesting.  I've never met any liberal Christians who are exclusivist in this way, but it doesn't surprise me to hear that some are.  Probably a number of liberal Christians were former fundies who lost those particular committments but didn't lose the proclivity to find those who don't believe what they do sinful.  I think that our culture has been infected from the beginiing with a kind of intellectual and spiritual puritanism, and no matter what Americans happen to think or value, they often believe those who believe and value other things than they do are condemnable, contemptable or should be banned or marginalized from society in one way or another.  For people who pride ourselves on freedom and social pluralism, for people who recite the creed of "live and let live," we as Americans often don't live up that creed so well.
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