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(3,622 posts)MarkCharles
(2,261 posts)What is the intention of the religious group here and how does this thread contribute positively?
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)If you (or I) had posted this, it would have been popcorn time.
deacon_sephiroth
(731 posts)and that would make you a bigot
and that would be against the nature of this website LET ALONE the good and decent foundations of this group
and that might have to be decided by a jury (foregone conclusion)
and that should make you ashamed of yourself
and why are you even here if that's all you're going to do
and why is your avatar a stapler? Are you trying to make fun of religion or confuse people?
but you didn't...
so it's different...
right?
MarkCharles
(2,261 posts)further membership privileges here.
But I guess it works differently for different people with "special rights" to make fun of fellow Christians.
rug
(82,333 posts)tama
(9,137 posts)It's OK for my to make fun of my family, but if you start badmouthing my loved ones,...
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)I can have it?
tama
(9,137 posts)emotional closeness than with ideological definitions, but they can and do overlap.
Please don't think I'm stopping you in any way...
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)but I wouldn't mess with the Eastern Orthodox if I were you.
rug
(82,333 posts)Nor is Lutheran Satire.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lutheran-Satire/173746872678423
I have no opinion on how you take it.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Laughing at ourselves is a good thing, in my opinion.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)aquarius venus
(13 posts)Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)I believe things happened before 1950
My leader wears a ridiculous hat
No one take me seriously
I'm an Episco, Presby, Lutheran
Certainly works for me
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)and that they are your leaders??
rug
(82,333 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)aquarius venus
(13 posts)which is a liberal Christian sect. No fire and brimstone crap. Now I call myself spiritual and am not into Christianity in its organized sense but I dig the mystics.
rug
(82,333 posts)ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)What I really like is they are one of the few mainline denoms to only baptize adults. I don't see the point in baptizing babies. I've never been to one of their services though, which is a little funny because I live very close to one of their churches (it's actually where I vote).
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)darkstar3
(8,763 posts)Humorous assumptions about anti-christs aside and other idiocy aside, "Non-denominational" is far more aligned with the Assembly of God than it is with the Baptists. I should know, I was one for many years.
rug
(82,333 posts)darkstar3
(8,763 posts)When the church split when I was a teenager, a whole lot of people ended up at the AOG down the street because that church's views meshed so well.
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)The joke here is that a lot of churches that preach essentially Baptist theology are "non-denominational" because they won't affiliate with any Baptist association (like most megachurches), but it refers to pretty much church that doesn't. The whole emerging church movement is definitely not Baptist or AoG-esque and they too are mostly non-denominational, so is the church that some people I know are founding that is self described as progressive and LGBT-affirming. There are churches close to the Assembly of God that are non-denominational too, like the one you were involved in, but saying non-denominational churches are all aligned with something else is like saying independents mostly lean Democratic or Republican, an independent can to be to the left of the Democrats, right of the Republicans, some mushy centrist, agree with one of the parties more but dislike them for other reasons, have politics that don't fit well on the spectrum, etc.
darkstar3
(8,763 posts)Nearly every non-denominational church within a 50 mile radius (and there were many, many NDCs) was an AOG clone with smaller buildings and shittier music.
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)I actually go to one, it's basically a liberal charismatic evangelical church. Yes, such a thing exists!
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Our Lady of the Erroneous Assumption
rug
(82,333 posts)It's also the name of my favorite internet discussion group.
Totally nailed me as a Roman Catholic.