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The site \u201cStuff Fundies Like\u201d features posts both\u00a0satirical\u00a0and serious related to the phenomenon of Christian fundamentalism. A recent post, promising to be the first in a series on Baptist distinctives<\/a>, highlights the way in which the widespread talk<\/i>\u00a0about and affirmation of the authority of the Bible does not correspond to the Bible \u00a0actually being authoritative.<\/p>\n

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The site \u201cStuff Fundies Like\u201d features posts both\u00a0satirical\u00a0and serious related to the phenomenon of Christian fundamentalism. A recent post, promising to be the first in a series on Baptist distinctives, highlights the way in which the widespread talk\u00a0about and affirmation of the authority of the Bible does not correspond to the Bible \u00a0actually being authoritative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBaptist Distinctives and Biblical Authority at Stuff Fundies Like<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The site "Stuff Fundies Like" features posts both satirical and serious related to the phenomenon of Christian fundamentalism. 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