There is a great danger lurking on our doorsteps today. It could be infecting your homes and churches. Often I come across people who wonder why I believe the “fundamentalist” movement is so dangerous to the church. What makes this movement so dangerous is that it can be so difficult to ascertain what exactly those that are in it stand for. In fact I know some people who would hold to the title and are good, God fearing people. But there are others! And they my friends are dangerous. This is why you should be giving those of us who are pointing out there errors.

For a list defining characteristics of this dangerous movement I direct you here

A few of my favorite characteristics are

• Believe “mixed bathing” is an abomination of the devil
• Disdains a social gospel––that is they believe the church should be more about calling down fire and brimstone than doing something to help the poor and oppressed of the world (Too bad the Apostle James didn’t see it that way)

Go here to learn more about this danger. (BTW thanks Ken and Thinkrup for the idea)

Sometimes people ask me why I feel the webpage formerly known as Slice of Laodicea is so dangerous. Today is a perfect example. I’ve been traveling the last few days so “today” may not actually be today but when I got home tonight I checked my email, scanned a few pages and then went over to CRN. Chris Rosebrough has an excellent post up on the whole “Lost Tomb of Jesus” debacle.

But then there’s this post by Dwayna. I had to read it five times to figure out what she was trying to say. By the way, Ms Lutz if you would like to email me and tell me what it is you’re saying I’d be thrilled. If I read your take correctly, Mosaic is Satanistic because they use things that God created as core values? You cite the “father of Satanism” as evidence?

This is silly. It’s beyond ludicrous. I know a guy who wrote a book about the ability to move out of your body around the world. It doesn’t make it fact.
But let’s be charitable and assume that what he wrote is true. Does that mean that the Church can’t use those elements? Do the Satanist suddenly get all proprietary rights to those elements? In fact, should we be surprised that Satan counterfeits something that God created and called good? I’m used to reading posts over there and scratching my head but this is a new low.

Beyond a new low, it is dangerous because people will read it and see it next to a Chris Rosebrough post and think it is done with the same scholarship when obviously it is not. It reminds me of a truth about a little leaven ruining a whole batch. The problem here is the leaven isn’t little.