In the Reddit post, Does anyone here know about Independent Fundamental Baptists, a woman whose father was a Jehovah's Witness and whose husband attends an IFB church, exposed their many "cultish" similarities.
Her husband told her the following of his Independent Fundamental Baptist Church:
- No Christmas, no birthdays, and no holidays are celebrated...
- Only religious books are allowed for children and nothing else.
- He [her husband] has a huge problem with RCC priests, but praises his pastor nonstop saying it isn't the same thing
- Only IFBs are Christians according to him...all other Christians are nuts.
- Everyone who is not an IFB goes to hell.
- Only IFB members believe in God.
- His IFB church must get rid of dissenters.
This woman went on to say:
"To counterargue his points is useless because he just sticks to ''this is what the church says though'' even if his claim is crazy and it is clear that I have a point. Example: I asked about his ancestors (indigenous, never knew of IFB) and he says that they went to hell because only IFB can go to heaven."
"I admit I have become increasingly curious about this [her husband's IFB Church] over time because what started as me thinking that it's just Christianity, has led to me thinking it is very cult-ish like the Jehovah's Witnesses are. And I just want to be aware of what this religion [IFB] really is."
"Many of his [her husband's] family members are weirdly obsessed with Israel, naming their businesses after it like they have a ceramics store called Israel Ceramics, Israel flags in their home. I was so confused by this even until now, we live in Mexico in a village and basically no one here knows about Israel or has any opinion on it so it seemed very weird."
(Note: James Knox is also a Zionist very obsessed with Israel!)
Some of the comments to her post include the following:
"They [IFB Churches] are big into homeschooling their kids. Some are KJV Bible only."
"Unfortunately, many IFB churches are led by control-freaks who feel the need to persecute certain people for disagreeing on nonessential doctrines (like the timing of the rapture)."
(James Knox will persecute anyone who opposes his Zionist doctrine.)