I was a member of Gary North's site, "specific answers". I liked the neat and orderly sections and what he claimed to be about, following Biblical pronouncements. It is billed as a free market, capitalist site supporting a "Biblical" view of life and offering such solutions. However he would increasingly brand as "absurd" actual practice of the simple teachings of the Bible regarding admonitions to work with your hands, have no debt and other traditional lifestyle practices. Do your own due diligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_reconstructionism https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-se...-teams-with-stoner-gary-north-to-indoctrinate https://www.wired.com/1999/01/theres-something-about-gary/ His religion, reconstructionism, wants to stone sinners like the gays, fornicators and adulterers. I don't know any other Christian religion promoting such extreme views.
Dr. North has been around a long time, Mr Y2K was warning the sky was falling, etc.. Not single, married a woman who was daughter of a far right ideologue, calling for the stoning of gays and other similar sinners, a la the old testament's teachings.
Sounds like a very select form of 'fundamentalism', like usual with the so-called American 'Christian Right'. It takes quite a feat of mental gymnastic to claim that the Bible supports free market capitalism, while also cherry-picking passages that advocate stoning gays, adulterers etc. All wrapped up in the kind of language that appeals to the survivalist/me-me-me mindset of American individualism (the collectivist message of Christianity apparently lost in translation). 'Get rich quick by joining my wacky cult'
American society has large numbers of people who support various types of fundamentalism. Most of them may not be "cults" but lack the type of accountability that larger churches do. The reason I tried North's site is that it actually is set up for problem solving on a lot of areas, a very good format and he was a former professor of history. Most sites on the internet are like kaleidoscopes, they lack focus and cohesive order.
There are many questionable Christian groups. It's good you were able to think critically about it despite being a member of the site.
St Paul wasnt in favor of them either but I also don't believe he would have supported the violence I believe as far as I can detect from scripture he was for shunning the person wouldn't change who refused to change and there is ample scripture to prove that.