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To: feedback doctor
No, Southern Baptists are all pretty much within the pale. Now there are Christians who disagree with just how far that pale extends, of course, but most of us ignore those guys anyway.

You have to be careful here since you have one of the oldest of the Charismatic groups in the Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born.

They date their earliest presence in North America to old New Sweden colony in Delaware, and to a whaling settlement in South Texas in 1703.

When you examine their theology close enough you see that this figure you and I might call Santa Claus is actually "Little Red Man". They do not celebrate Christmas Day (much like many other Scandinavian groups otherwise in the Laestidian wing of belief), but you can still find congregations that not only reject doctors, they reject dentists, so when the peyote they use loosens their teeth, they just fall right out.

Some of them have a Christian doctrine pasted on top of their shamanism and this does lead some to confusion, particularly if such a congregation affiliates loosely with one of the Church of God organizations.

I don't count COTFB as being Christian although their adroit use of Little Red Man did popularize Christmas as something for Protestants to "celebrate", much like Catholics.

97 posted on 06/11/2005 3:58:24 PM PDT by muawiyah (q)
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To: muawiyah
Southern Baptists
They do not celebrate Christmas Day (much like many other Scandinavian groups otherwise in the Laestidian wing of belief), but you can still find congregations that not only reject doctors, they reject dentists, so when the peyote they use loosens their teeth, they just fall right out.

Bwahhahhaahaahaaa!!

Okay, I'm convinced. You are insane!
104 posted on 06/11/2005 4:08:06 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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