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To: muawiyah

No sorry, I have attended plenty of churches that have no altar at all.
Quakers have no altar.
Mennonites have no altar.
House churches have no altar.
Charismatics have no altar.

A true Christian is not going to worship an image in stone or on a canvas, whether that image is Jesus or his mother or Kermit the Frog. A true Christian worships the Lord is spirit and in truth.
No idol worship for me!!!


70 posted on 06/11/2005 2:59:46 PM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: Conservatrix
Quakers (or Camisards) are not Christians (first of all), and there's the doctrine of "home as a sacred place" and "church as a sacred place", which makes the whole building the "altar".

Regarding Charismatics, there are even Roman Catholic Charismatics so you'll have to be a bit more specific. Remember, some Charismatics deviate so far from the pale of orthodoxy as to be considered something other than Christian.

80 posted on 06/11/2005 3:11:37 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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