The "lets all just get along" thread

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Too much shame and blame. Lets try to say something nice about other beliefs for once. It can be both political and religious. You can't say something nice about your own (but list it.) Lets just make this fun.

unitarian universalist-mine

christianity-gave us all the christmas specials on TV

atheism-helps put pressure to keep science as the academic standard for schools

judaism-we have delicous jewish delis that give us awesome sandwiches

catholicism- all the catholic priests who stood up against the nazis.

islam- islamic art and textile design is beautiful to look at

hinduism - their gods are just plain cool

buddhism - meditation is good for the mind

help me think of more. And lets not spoil the happy mood. PLEASE

Did I ever tell you about the time I got the U-U's in my town annoyed at me. They came to my house and burned a question mark on my lawn.

ruveyn

I'm sure that Yahweh would be puzzled that His people were chosen o be delicatessen owners.

I'm glad that you got the correct answer by recognizing that Catholicism is not a branch of Christianity.

First:

I am all for exercising some restraint and respect and not describing him, her, or it who disagrees as a criminal idiot.

Second:

My list of positives were I to compile it would be drastically different.

Third:

Awesomely Glorious, on "Catholic", are you being etymological [in which case "catholic" is not the branch but the whole of Christianity", or are you asserting something theological significant about the Roman Catholic church, which unless you know something I don't is by most standards most decidely a branch of Christianity, albeit perhaps an intertwining of branches as see in the trunks of certain Ficus species would be a more apt analogy?

Not Roman Catholic or Uniate myself, but sincerely curious.

It is of course POSSIBLE it just sounded good - but I suspect that like me you usually hide a grain of sincerity in your flippancies.

Yaweh has been keeping close watch on Jewish deli owners to make sure they don't have their thumb on the scale. However, even Yaweh misses now and again.

ruveyn

Judaism: have the best women:

To think that in 40 or 50 years these Jewish babes are going to look like my bubbe (grandmother).

ruveyn

yeah its the starting point

Starting point - for western Christianity yes, but in the early days you can't really go there.

Even with the grafting in of Eastern liturgy uniates, you have at least four major branches outside the Roman to account for. The primacy of Peter does not negate theological - liturgical distinctions within Nicene Christianity alone.

Well, honestly, there are two things:
1) I am mocking the original separation because there is the category of "Catholic" and it is separate from that of "Christian" despite the original intended statement.
2) I disagree with a lot about Catholicism, period. Although I'll probably believe in flying pigs before Jesus, if I were a Christian, I would decidedly be Protestant.

Thankee kindly. Tout comprendre c'est to get it.

I totally get your point 1. Nomenclature can be most frustrating. I get bothered that the Southern Baptists are NOT a branch off the Baptists and in fact have major doctrinal differences.. At least the Methodist Episcopal Church comes by its name fairly straight.

As for point 2 - your privilege.

Buddhism is an admirable form of faith in that it makes a lot of sense and puts great emphasis on humans' potential to help ourselves. They also had a very cool founder.

I think it is just the particular way of the OP. I did not mean to insult the OP, because nothing negative was thought by it, I just find the odd and unnecessarily divisive phrasing amusing.

I suppose you can say it is my privilege. Should I guess that you are Catholic from that statement? Honestly, I had guessed more in favor of liberal Protestant. You don't seem to do much to favor tradition (while many standard Catholics, along with GK Chesterton, practically worship it). You also don't seem likely to swallow dogmas, which pushes you away from most conservative varieties of religion. Finally, you don't seem like a big community person given that you've stated a degree of individualism in the past, and this is also a point Protestants can find more theologically easy than Catholics. I suppose liberal Protestants like Catholics more than conservative Protestants... but whatever.

The Politics, Philosophy, and Religion forum is all about political and religion head-bashing and trolling for fights.
There won't be any "just getting along" or whatever....................

the "let's all just get along" [IOW "agreeing to disagree"] thread sounds to me, like the beginnings of a separate forum which is the opposite of PPR, namely the "no hot buttons" or "no controversy" thread, where topics that don't quite fit into the other threads can be discussed in a civil manner. i call it the "nightcaps" forum, in honor of the late herb jepko and his KSL [salt lake city] late night radio program "nightcaps" which was a no-controversy zone, just a friendly and slightly peculiar late-night insomniac forum. just a jejune thought.