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 Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:05 pm 
I like girls. _________________ Dyslexics of the world untie. How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss? -The Usual Suspects- The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. -The Usual Suspects- "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" -The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:03 pm
IHeartYourTelescopeEyes wrote: I like girls. Amen to that! 
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:40 pm
I wonder what would happen if I threw in the belief that Baptists as a denomination are neither Protestant nor Catholic. I would also wonder what might be thought about the belief that they antedate both systems of doctrine? It seems like everybody (and I really mean everybody) considers Christianity to be the Big Two, and likes to lump everything "Christian" into those two categories, failing to realize that there are people who honestly don't feel they have any part of them. I like girls, too. They don't like me. _________________ Scriptozoology, a screenwriting blog .. Facebook |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:18 pm
For a few years the only time you'd see me in church (remember? atheist) was when they were having their potato bar. So I guess I am part of a religion loosely based around the potato. The girl thing sounds good too. We could make it the holy trinity I guess and say that I believe in the potato, the Girl, and the Guinness. That Guinness died for my sins... sins committed with girls and potatos... mmm... evil taters. |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:24 pm
Huh. I was always under the impression that Baptists were Protestant (and I used to go to a Baptist church). As far as I understand it, "Protestant" basically refers to any Christian denomination besides Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the "spin-off" religions like the LDS and Jehovah's Witnesses. Correct me if I'm wrong. I never labeled myself as belonging to a particular denomination when I was a Christian either, though, so I know what you're talking about (I think). |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:36 am
Protestants were a group of Christians (quite a large group) that "protested" and broke away from the Catholic church. Those churches came from the Catholic church. They were from groups known as reformers, like the Lutherans, Presbeterians, and the Episcopals (who weren't actually reformers, really). But since Catholicism started in 300 AD (and didn't formally organize until sometime later), there has to be a denomination that precedes it. It is believed by some that the original church perpetuated into what is now known as the Baptist church. Of course, when you watch TV you will hear point blank people saying that the Catholic church was the first church, but that makes for a 280-some-odd year gap that isn't accounted for. There were other churches besides Catholics before the idea of protestantism came. There were two Ecumenical councils in 1139 and 1179 held by Popes Innocent II and Alexander III, respectively, to talk about the "impieties" of the Petro-Brussians, Arnoldists, Waldenses, and Albigenses; churches with similar doctrines who were named after their leaders by Catholics after they were denied to be called Christians. Most Baptist Conventions have started to claim that came from protesting the Catholic church (i.e., the Southern Baptist Convention), but looking into history may point to more noble origins. Most truly independent Baptists believe in this heritage, and have a pretty good reason to believe that they don't belong in the Catholic/Protestant mess. "Were it not that the baptists have been grievously tormented and cut off with the knife during the past twelve hundred years, they would swarm in greater number than all the Reformers." --Cardinal Hosius, President of the Council of Trent, 1524 _________________ Scriptozoology, a screenwriting blog .. Facebook |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:59 am
[quote="berlies] I believe in a God. But the rest I have come to believe through my own experiences. I dont believe that God is up there, granting our prayers and making decisions for us. There are too many things explained by Science to believe what the Bible says. [/quote] That right there is one of my biggest dilemmas. I was raised a Roman Catholic, however as I grew up I began to start second-guessing everything in the Bible on the sheer fact that what I was learning about science and such disproved it. I'm still having a lot of trouble with that fact... _________________ Please take me out of my body up through the palm trees, to smell California in sweet hypocrisy. Floating, my senses surround my body. I wake my nose to smell that ocean burn. Livejournal. Xanga. MySpace. Hah, I have no friends on it. |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:36 am
I believe that God is behind all of that. Existence is a cake. And you have to have ingredients for that cake (atoms, chemicals, elements, etc), and you have to have a process for that cake to be baked (evolution sound familiar?). God is our baker, science is our oven and ingredients. Cakes just don't appear out of nothing. That may just sound terrible, but I believe it. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:39 am
funky-geetar wrote: organized religion is silly. why cant we just believe there is a god and he is good. we shouldnt have to call it anything. Aye. _________________ Dear Eisley- I love you all truely and sincerely. I bought your album "Room Noises" today and fell in deeper love with you. If you ever want anything from me, whether it be a friendly person to talk to, or a hand to hold, or a band to play in a concert for you. I will be glad to do so. Your Sincere friend, Loren |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:41 am
TheAntrider wrote: I believe that God is behind all of that. Existence is a cake. And you have to have ingredients for that cake (atoms, chemicals, elements, etc), and you have to have a process for that cake to be baked (evolution sound familiar?). God is our baker, science is our oven and ingredients. Cakes just don't appear out of nothing.
That may just sound terrible, but I believe it. Sounds like you're tired and hungry, Jamie. _________________ Scriptozoology, a screenwriting blog .. Facebook |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:18 am
TheAntrider wrote: I believe that God is behind all of that. Existence is a cake. And you have to have ingredients for that cake (atoms, chemicals, elements, etc), and you have to have a process for that cake to be baked (evolution sound familiar?). God is our baker, science is our oven and ingredients. Cakes just don't appear out of nothing.
That may just sound terrible, but I believe it. doesn't sound terrible, sounds logical. everything is so complicated...and we're supposed to think that nothing exploded, and here we all are? hmm! ok, now i want cake. _________________ Saellys wrote: Thank God for Arielle all your kind, they're coming clean they shut their eyes their mess, their scene |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:22 am
I just had cake. It was good. JD _________________ "Well, hopefully that's our job, to strap rockets onto everything." - Adam Savage, Mythbusters |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:23 am
So if God is the baker, who are the butcher and the candlestick-maker? |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:29 am
phoenixdown wrote: So if God is the baker, who are the butcher and the candlestick-maker? OMG. that made me laugh. _________________ Saellys wrote: Thank God for Arielle all your kind, they're coming clean they shut their eyes their mess, their scene |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:11 pm
you left out Judaism! it is a major religion ya know _________________ hello, i'm Ivy don't mind my username, it's oldoldold |
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