A Fundamentally Broken System

From our Voices of Change Page.  Our first entry by Guest Contributer Jeremy Lape

"Personally, I feel like Fundamentalism is a broken system that needs to be retired. The brand is irreparably damaged and sullied, and any church that wants to identify with a movement that systematically denigrates women and forces them to stay in archaic roles while denying them equal and sole rights over their bodies, suppresses the LBGT communities, (Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Gay and Transgender peoples) not to mention actively seeks to influence American communities by unlawfully influencing followers to align with their narrow choices of political candidates, while brainwashing children in isolated schools with Bronze Age doctrines about the physical and spiritual worlds, needs to jettison their archaic and damaging attitudes towards healthy progress and the expansion of the human experience.

Fundamentalism, like tribalism, slavery, apartheid, suppression of women and minorities, has got to go. It fosters a form of toxic extremism which leads to authoritarian power systems where abuse of all kinds regularly occurs with impunity. It has no place in the modern world. What the IFB world needs is a Radical Revolution leading to a New Reformation, where Legalism goes back to the days before Christianity was born. It is a slap in the face of the real Christ, the One who came to put an end to abusive systems."

~Jeremy Lape~

(Concerning the IFB International Fundamentalist Baptist denomination, but quite applicable to any fundamentalist branch of the Body of Christ.)