Grey Colson said:
The irony, though, was that the congregation was incredibly legalistic and nitpicky. If you smoked, you were going to hell. If you drank alcohol, you were going to hell. If you listened to secular music...well you weren't necessarily going to hell, but you were backslidden
Over the past 20 years, I have been in attendance in hundreds of fundamental churches. The Peach State Quartet and Pioneers literally sang in these churches and heard the preaching. These were conservative churches simply by virtue of their selection of music.
I've heard the above same statement made by people who never attended a fundamental service in their life, or if they had, took what the preacher was saying about sin totally out of context. I'm not suggesting such a thing has never been said, but it is a message taught by very few. The minority.
I grew up in the Southern Baptist church. I would have to say that most of the Southern Baptists I know think this way. (A major reason I will not be a member of another SBC church.
Not that I don't think they are ALL bad...there's just a little too much water under that particular bridge for me to venture there again.) Legalism is their way of feeling superior. Again, I'm not talking about all church members. But more than a few.
Well, in typical
Atlantic fashion, that article was TRES long!!! But it was very good. Very, very good. I am very proud of him for writing it. He is definitely not a Christian-hating gay.
