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who here is religious

posted 6 years ago by jriley555 (8552)
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are you catholic/baptist/buddhist/jewish/muslim/pentacostal/zoroastrian/shinto/coptic/orthodox/bahai/jehovah's witness/7th day adventist/unitarian/evangelical/presbyterian/daoist/hindu/mason/jews for jesus/scientologist/moonie/branch davidian/mormon/jack mormon/atheist/agnostic/deist/non-trinitarian/christian scientist/megaChurchian...

one of these off-shoots of christianity....
https://coldcasechristianity.com/2017/historic-heresies-related-to-the-nature-of-jesus/

or nuthin atall or what ?

i'm about 99.97% atheist, and one part moose lodge

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15124) 6 years ago

Christian, but just for clarification purposes, my family and I are non-denominational Protestants :). We currently attend a Community church.

We have been known to adopt Baptist or Lutheran churches, depending on where we live (we've moved a lot). We're actually comfortable with Baptist churches (after living in the South for a few years), because the only difference between them and community/Bible churches is that they baptize someone every Sunday service, instead of every 6 months like a community church would.

[–] jriley555 (8552) 6 years ago

i've wondered about denominations which hold to the concept of adult baptism. do they preach that baptism for, say infants & youngsters, isnt requisite to salvation ?

the 'high-church' folks like RC, anglican/episcopalians, also probably the lutherans/evangelicals have a secondary sacrament called confirmation for children around 8/9 or so, to 'confirm' the baptismal affirmation made during infancy by the child's sponsors.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (15124) 6 years ago

We don't baptize babies, but we do baptize children that are old enough to understand the meaning behind it. Unlike Catholics, we Protestants don't believe being immersed in water or having it sprinkled on your head is a prerequisite to going to heaven. We also don't believe in Purgatory. All it is, is a public declaration of your faith in God and the sacrifice His son Jesus Christ made to save us.

The most we do for babies is bless them (in the Lutheran church they do a blessing ceremony and draw a cross in oil on the baby's forehead), and hold Baby Dedications several times a year, and you can include toddlers and older children for that sort of thing. It's pretty much a public vow or promise by the parents to raise their children to know God.

[–] somesunnyday (2078) 6 years ago

None. Was brought up atheist. People can believe what they want but hell, religion causes so much grief around the world.

[–] slimone (7996) 6 years ago

Total atheist.