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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:23 PM Original message |
Survey: Americans don't know much about religion |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. What some people call "faith" is really just a cop-out. A self-reinforcing vicious circle. nt |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Religion is for many religious people a social obligation. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 04:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I think it is a lot more than that though. That doesn't explain the "megachurch" phenom. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 06:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Church people do a lot, most?, if not all in some cases, business with one another. nt |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 06:15 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. It actually works on a completely organic & rational basis, but that does not appear to be what |
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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Isn't this somewhat dated? |
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Tunkamerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Monday, September 27, 2010 says the byline |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Monday, September 27, 2010 at 9:02 p.m. |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. And probably again next month. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. "It's one way to get people to think what they believe." ?? Who is "they"? |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Couple of months ago - I just thought it was interesting. No need for anyone to discuss if they |
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JackintheGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. I thought transubstantiation was changed at Vatican II |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Not according to this. But it is wikipedia so someone schooled in RC should answer. |
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JackintheGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I looked it up in the Catholic encyclopedia |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 04:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. The church I attend emphasizes the "communion part" - "breaking bread together" |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 06:28 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. All depends upon your definition of what a body is and what blood is. Language is really much more |
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TalkingDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 04:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. It is and always has been a metaphysical change. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 06:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Vatican II put those words "fruit of the vine, work of human hands" in it, the physical manifestatio |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
19. "while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths" |
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4_TN_TITANS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-04-11 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
20. "former members of a religion who explored their religion" |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-05-11 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
21. This British second-generation atheist got a score of 14 |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-05-11 11:54 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. The First Great Awakening was a time of Christian revival and change in the US in the 1730s and 40s. |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-06-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Thanks a lot for that; very interesting |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-06-11 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
24. And I say Great! |
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