Oh it's something of a long story. I'll try to put it into context.
From 2017-2018, I attended an independent fundamental Baptist church until a little over a year ago (I was the only woman who wore pants there, lol). They were nice enough people, but they were so naive in regards to their salvation theology. Here are people who want to be separate from the world, and yet they nonsensically also want huge mega-size churches, and wonder why people aren't responding in droves to their door-to-door "soul-winning" salesmanship attempts (which isn't contextually or historically Biblically based at all, but instead based on early 20th century traditions). I couldn't stand the absurdity anymore, so I had to leave and return to my conservative Lutheran roots.
But I was initially sucked into fundamentalist and extreme conservativism through the Niednagels, whom I've mentioned here before. Jon Niednagel, the Celtics NBA scout and founder of the controversial Brain Types theory, is a hardcore authoritarian and conservative Calvinist. His family more or less all fall into a similar outlook. A few even have connection to the former Vision Forum cult. Niednagel believes Darwin and other FCIR/ENTP Brain Types are responsible for leading the Western world into evolutionary beliefs and Hollywood liberalism. (Never mind that the Bible itself says nothing about Brain Types; Niednagel is convinced that his observations are the gospel, analytic, and empirical truth, and his views on religion, politics, and everything else are to never be questioned because his rare Brain Type is allegedly the most truth-seeking and exacting of them all.) It just seemed like he had all the black-and-white answers, and that my own more relaxed and generic FCIR/ENTP Christian parents were too loose in their upbringing of me.
Well, I've since distanced myself from all that. I no longer think Niednagel's views, Brain Types or otherwise, are the be-all and end-all of everything. And I've found that extreme conservatism is no better than extreme liberalism; both don't really appear to have any balance or Biblical basis.
