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Those churches in and around the San Francisco vicinity are extremely whacky. Maybe they see all the decadence around them and react in extreme fashion like you say. Having lived there for some time, I can say that things over there just do not make sense and thus people are likely to turn inward and form little communes of isolation, and thus the churches over there are isolated and whacky without any frame of reference with the outside world in contrast to those of us, for example, from the South.
Also, this progressive stuff is only cultural. Furthermore, they are so isolated out there from any wider frame of reference from the rest of the country that they do not see themselves in the extremism that they are in. California – at least around San Francisco – is not in any cultural sense part of America. This is why it is so incomprehensible to outsiders. And, thus, the churches out there are freaking out and respond with their own brand of extremism – even for Oneness Pentecostals.
Most people do not know that California is a very backward place with third world living conditions to the point that people are leaving in droves for Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Texas. The old idea that it is progressive is back during the 60’s through the 80’s, but no longer. Right now, Texas is the most progressive state and will emerge in the next decade as the most powerful – for better or worse – while New York and California continue in their decline. I suspect Virginia, Texas, and possibly Ohio to be the three most progressive states in the near future, with the possibility of Arizona, but vast deserts limit them in their potential. The future of the country is in the South and the Midwest.
JP Istre
