17 Oct 2008, 3:24 am
Haliphron wrote:
Orwell wrote:
[Also, Baptists are probably the only major branch of Christianity that I just plain dislike in a blanket fashion. I may disagree theologically with Catholics, Lutherans, and Methodists, but I can get along with them just fine. Baptists tend to get on my nerves though.
You do realize there are a number of fundamentalist protestant sects in the US BESIDES baptists: like presbyterians, pentacostals, 7th day Adventists,and Born Again Christians.
Presbies are fundamentalist?
Nope. Presbyterianism is actually a pretty liberal denomination. And I pointed to Baptists as the only major branch of Christianity I have a problem with. I also have problems with the fringies like 7th day adventists and JW.
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17 Oct 2008, 11:25 am
Orwell wrote:
Presbies are fundamentalist? Nope. Presbyterianism is actually a pretty liberal denomination. And I pointed to Baptists as the only major branch of Christianity I have a problem with. I also have problems with the fringies like 7th day adventists and JW.
Nope. Presbyterianism is actually a pretty liberal denomination. And I pointed to Baptists as the only major branch of Christianity I have a problem with. I also have problems with the fringies like 7th day adventists and JW.Orwell, it depends upon the Presbyterian group you are affiliated with. There are conservative Christian Presbyterians, they are not as bad as the Baptists, but still, I have known of Presbyterians who have jumped upon the ID bandwagon and so on and so forth.
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17 Oct 2008, 7:48 pm
claire333 wrote:
Now you have me interested. What is so wrong with the Baptists?
They have a tendency to be fundies and bigots. A friend of mine in high school, once a devout fundie YEC, was driven away from Christianity entirely because his Baptist church rejected him over his sexuality. As seen from that example, Baptists are polarizing- you accept this particular view of every theological issue, or you reject religion entirely and burn in hell. Baptists are also the ones largely responsible for giving Christians our poor reputation in intellectual matters, as those tend to be the ones most commonly arguing against evolution and science in general. Also, they're arrogant. They claim to have all the answers, reject the possibility that they could be wrong on any issue, and ignore the fact that it is possible for honest, well-intentioned people to disagree on a matter of Biblical interpretation- their interpretation is just so obviously correct that anyone who views a passage differently than they do is merely ignoring what the Bible says.
On top of that, they insist on sticking with the KJV (known by modern scholarship to be one of the less good translations of the Bible) and yet constantly insist that it is the best and only valid English translation because it's "more true to the original."
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17 Oct 2008, 7:58 pm
Orwell wrote:
was driven away from Christianity entirely because his Baptist church rejected him
*raises hand*
Thanks for the rant...just wondering if it was just me.
I am much happier with the views I have now. I have had plenty of years to get past it, but some things are hard to shake completely. I must say, several members here are helping with that. 
17 Oct 2008, 8:47 pm
claire333 wrote:
Orwell wrote:
was driven away from Christianity entirely because his Baptist church rejected him
*raises hand*Thanks for the rant...just wondering if it was just me.
I am much happier with the views I have now. I have had plenty of years to get past it, but some things are hard to shake completely. I must say, several members here are helping with that. *raises hand*
Once evangelical and lost my faith. I eventually became Christian again, but much different from before.
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