Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Way to go 2JM! Your boys should be proud!
I guess that explains why the Calvinists don't like you.
It looks like you have been hanging around BAD influences, if you are going to get involved with this page sneaking stuff. It is a dirty business (but somebody has to do it).
Oh, that's just one of many reasons. But there are some quite likable Calvinists who manage to stay out of the fray. I can converse with them quite well, and even find it a most pleasurable experience.
Boy, I step out for ONE minute and 2JM snags the Precious. ;^)
There's probably a lesson in there for us someplace.............NAH!
-Kevin
So should I wear my asbestos/kevlar suit when we eventually get to meet? ;^)
-Kevin
Yeah, and she didn't even WANT it!
(sheepish grin)
You mean you are an Anabaptist, as opposed to a Baptist? Didn't think there were many of them around! These days, I am afraid, good Catholics are saving their firewood to deal with certain priests and bishops. Looks like we will need to lay in a good supply.
Well, I do attend an independant Baptist church. I have always understood that Anabaptists and Baptists were basically the same animal.
-Kevin
My understanding, which may well be colored by propaganda, was that the Anabaptists in this Swiss 16th century city went the Calvinists one better. Accepting that the human race was divided between the elect and the damned, and that nothing could be done by man to affect their election, they dropped the idea that your behavior would demonstrate whether you were elect. They advocated practicing all sorts of degrading and sinful behavior, since it would have no effect on their eventual position in paradise. The Lutheran and Calvinist princes and communes, and the Catholic Emperor sent a joint army, and burnt their city down, killing all inhabitants. Thus THESE Anabaptists had no descendants.
If I had difficulty dealing with Baptists, Florida would certainly be the wrong state for me. As far as I am concerned, the theological and liturgical differences, which are substantial, between Catholics and Baptists, should be put aside because of the religious, moral and ethical beliefs which we share. We are in a crisis of our civilization, and must put first things first. I have the same attitude towards the Episcopalians, Lutherans, Orthodox, Methodists, and other high and low church Christians, and the Jews, who share these beliefs to a greater or lesser degree. Shared ethical and political principals should make it possible for us to make common cause with some non-Islamist Moslems, as well as members of other faiths and those with no faith. When the ship is sinking, everyone who is willing to help bail us out should be enlisted in the effort.
More power to 'em, I say. At least they are gone and not tearing up our traditional S. Baptist churches. A local church here in Tulsa is in such a tumult over just this kind of thing. The pastor is liberal, the flock is conservative.
They're still trying to figure that part out. ;^)
-Kevin
Cardinal Law, perhaps?
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