Eric Barger

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'''Eric Barger''' is a [[Christian]] [[apologist]] for Take A Stand! Ministries, who despite the times we live in is still an anti-[[Rock music|rock]] activist,<ref>https://www.ericbarger.com/articles/RockMusic.html</ref> despite it falling out of fashion back in the 1990s. Just like many others who are stuck in the past, he continues to rail against [[Pokémon]],<ref>http://www.ericbarger.com/understanding.pokemon.go.htm</ref> despite it not being cool to do so anymore.

==Heresy Hunters, Inc.== 
Eric is constantly on the look out for "[[New Age]]" influences within the Evangelical community from "[[liberals]]" and "emergents". He likes to encourage his followers to call out various churches with these "tests":

Questions like:<ref>https://baptiststoday.org/dont-let-eric-barger-rock-your-church/</ref>
*"Do you believe in a literal [[hell]], yes or no?"
*"Is that a Brian McLaren book on your shelf?"
*"Why did you quote Nouwen and Merton last Sunday without telling the church they are dangerous?"
*"Have you attended a conference at which Leonard Sweet or Richard Foster spoke?"
*"The word 'missional' was in the church newsletter this week; don't you check for things like that?"
*"Are you aware that in the young adults class last Sunday, the teacher talked about [[social justice]] instead of the [[Gospel]]?"
*"Why don’t you preach against [[evolution]]?"
*"Are you aware of [[Rick Warren]]'s [[universalist]] leanings?"
These questions were all apparently encouraged by Barger for his followers to use against their pastors, it's enough to make a person quit preaching in general.

==Psychology is of the Devil!== 
He refers to [[psychiatry]] as "[attempting] to deal with [[spiritual]] issues by using completely worldly means."<ref name=you>[http://ericbarger.com/disarming/you_war.htm <u>YOU</u> are in a War!] Eric Barger Take A Stand! Ministries</ref> He is upset that psychiatry is "the first remedy the world around us employs when someone exhibits signs of [[Demonic possession|demon possession]]"<ref name=you/> is what he refers to as "Secular psychiatry." He believes that psychiatric medications do not fix this problem, claiming that they simply "disguise the symptoms but [do] absolutely nothing to alleviate the cause." "Secular psychiatry", Barger claims, "cannot cure the demon possessed and can at best only rearrange a person’s emotional and mental problems. Doctor [[Jesus]] can cure them completely, set them free, and make the broken [[soul]] whole!"<ref name=you/>

==''Lord of the Rings'' too?== 
Its not just [[Harry Potter]] and Pokémon that Barger has a problem with, but even ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''[[Narnia]]'' despite ''Narnia'' being commonly endorsed by Christian leaders. He would attack these for desensitizing people to the [[occult]] and for using "unbiblical themes", or that their ideas of [[God]] were not sufficiently Christian.<ref>http://www.witchvox.com/whs/dt_whs.html?aid=23073&id=10278</ref>

==Crank magnetism== 
As one might expect he is attracted to fellow fundies which is why he can also be often found on [[Jan Markell]]'s fundamentalist radio show ranting and raving against the occult and against "occultic" influence in the church.<ref>http://www.rightsidenews.com/life-and-science/culture-wars/spiritual-warfare-walking-dead-zombies-paranormal-ufos/</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.ericbarger.com/ His website]

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