Comments on: Leap Blogging http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/05/13/leap-blogging-9/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bene D http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/05/13/leap-blogging-9/#comment-89310 Bene D Mon, 14 May 2007 00:51:48 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=3127#comment-89310 I agree the article had some common sense advice in it: it reverts to us/them and he responds oddly to bloggers not taking his advice. It does appear fundamentalists are into leadership control, and a grass roots medium like blogging must be very uncomfortable for their kind of authoritarian structure. I'll never forget reading an article when I first started blogging by a fundamentalist who warned his flock not to go near blogs, they were not of God. Cracked me up, the 'pastor read some and the hyperbole was quite over the top. I agree the article had some common sense advice in it: it reverts to us/them and he responds oddly to bloggers not taking his advice.

It does appear fundamentalists are into leadership control, and a grass roots medium like blogging must be very uncomfortable for their kind of authoritarian structure.

I’ll never forget reading an article when I first started blogging by a fundamentalist who warned his flock not to go near blogs, they were not of God. Cracked me up, the ‘pastor read some and the hyperbole was quite over the top.

]]> By: Mark Byron http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/05/13/leap-blogging-9/#comment-89303 Mark Byron Sun, 13 May 2007 19:28:29 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=3127#comment-89303 I recall reading some of <i>Sword of the Lord</i> back when I was a new Christian in the mid 80s and going to a Baptist church. I was going to school and unemployed and helped out in the office; one of the chores was making a database of essays from SotL. It was seriously capital F Fundimentalist in the origional meaning of the word, where Billy Graham was too liberal for them and John Paul II's salvation was an open question. That aside, that article did have some good advice, to avoid gossip and to think Christianly when you write. It had a bit of a sneery tone, but it might be that the old-school folks at SotL are still digesting the 20th century to be comfortable with the new elements of the 21st. I recall reading some of Sword of the Lord back when I was a new Christian in the mid 80s and going to a Baptist church. I was going to school and unemployed and helped out in the office; one of the chores was making a database of essays from SotL. It was seriously capital F Fundimentalist in the origional meaning of the word, where Billy Graham was too liberal for them and John Paul II’s salvation was an open question.

That aside, that article did have some good advice, to avoid gossip and to think Christianly when you write. It had a bit of a sneery tone, but it might be that the old-school folks at SotL are still digesting the 20th century to be comfortable with the new elements of the 21st.

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