People need to understand that God is not in the business of fixing troubled teens. That is cult thinking.
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Literalism (as in Christian Fundamentalist)
" ... encourages a closed, usually (though not necessarily) politically conservative view of the world: one with a stop-time notion of history and a we-and-they approach to people, in which WE are possessed of truth, virtue, and goodness and THEY of falsehood, depravity, and evil. It looks askance at figurative language, which, so long as its symbols and metaphors are vital, can open -- promiscuously in the eyes of the strict literalist --- the world and its imaginative possibilities."
-Vincent Crapanzano
Serving the Word