Father Furniss & Jesus Camp
Excerpt from Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology by Kelli Jae Baeli Available February, 2011 Father Likes the Furniss “We are the pure and chosen few and all the rest are damned. There’s room enough in Hell for you— we don’t want Heaven crammed.” ~from an old saying of smug Jehovah’s Witnesses A popular booklet for children in the late 19th century was authored by Father John Furniss, an English priest who wrote “books for children.” But his material will never share the same shelf as The Velveteen Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, or Winnie the Poo. That’s because Furniss delighted … Continue reading →