Posted on 12/14/2021 10:53:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Nathalie Charles, even in her mid-teens, felt unwelcome in her Baptist congregation, with its conservative views on immigration, gender and sexuality. So she left.
“I just don’t feel like that gelled with my view of what God is and what God can be,” said Charles, an 18-year-old of Haitian descent who identifies as queer and is now a freshman at Princeton University.
“It wasn’t a very loving or nurturing environment for someone’s faith.”
“It wasn’t a very loving or nurturing environment for someone’s faith.”
After leaving her New Jersey church three years ago, she identified as atheist, then agnostic, before embracing a spiritual but not religious life. In her dorm, she blends rituals at an altar, chanting Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu mantras and paying homage to her ancestors as she meditates and prays.
The path taken by Charles places her among the religiously unaffiliated -- the fastest-growing group in surveys asking Americans about their religious identity. They describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
“Do you prefer fire and brimstone? Just askin’.”
I expect a good uplifting sermon which references the old testament, prayers go fast, but are also in English, afterwards we sip wine, have some snacks and get to know others in our community.
“Why didn’t someone say something?”
At that point, their “useful idiot” card expires and they become targets. And they will not have a clue as to why.
Their religious affiliation is “Sodomite.”
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Not a joke: When Senator Tammy Baldwin was first elected to the House, she received the same questionnaire as every other freshman member, and her response to the “Religion” question was “LGBT.” She now leaves that question blank; I think that she was more honest initially.
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Lapsed Agnostic
See, right there is why “None of you business” is the most common answer: You don’t live a ‘biblical lifestyle’ but want to pass childish judgements on everyone else. Who the Hell wants to be around you?
“All the churches here are woke or going woke.”
First of all, basically my wife’s relatives in the Mid west on both sides of the Mississippi were Methodists in small to medium size communities for 100+ years. About 15-20 years ago their churches woke up and members left. Then, many if not most of those Methodist churches are now closed. The Episcopalians often had closed their churches before and during that time period. Her self adopted older sister grew up in Southern Illinois, and the Methodist church after 100+ years locked its doors about 15 years ago.
Many of the mainline churches in many N. California cities are not even close to being Christian. A retired pastor went to another mainline church for Easter. He said there was nothing about Christ being crucified and raised from the dead said from the pulpit or handout. Another friend went to a Good Friday Service in another local mainline church, and again nothing about Christ being crucified.
Besides this retreat from basic Christian reality, even in areas with basically zero black citizens, the Woke B$ is being pounded in from the pulpits to so called work groups.
Ageing Church of England ‘will be dead in 21 years’(2032)
The Church of England will cease to exist in 20 years as the current generation of elderly worshipers dies, Anglican leaders warned yesterday.
Will our churches last another 10-20 years?
So with the pandemic B$ and masks, we are attending our church via live on line video. IF/When/It goes PC, we turn the tv off.
Of course all on line turn offs during the service are monitored.
Agreed. And welcome to freerepublic.
AP news-—I will not let their lies discourage me. Why we believe their crap [still] is beyond me.
Churches are filling up again-—people are seeking for “something” that makes sense.
Oh, those useful idiots definitely have a religion. It is either wokeism or climate change-ism.
Haitians are generally pagans. Some profess Christianity on Sunday, and practice voodoo on Monday.
I am an aging Boomer. I remind myself to thank the Lord for the privilege of riding the Starship Earth and request blessings for those I love. I do not need to sit on a hard bench and listen to a morally suspect dressed up in a costume lecture me on my faults.
Cynicism of observing hypocritical “believers” acting 180 degrees out of phase from what they profess to believe.
Divirce culture/entitlement syndrome born post WWII.
Materialism.
“Here in the now” mentality.
Flat out rejecting the Gospel message because they worship their intellect...aka they know more than God/philosophy.
“Science” says its not cool (Tips Fedora) to believe in a “sky Daddy”.
Both Talmuds.
I hate to break the news to to you, but NONE of the examples you cited above are "Catholic Bibles", and no serious practicing Catholic would use them regularly to practice his/her faith, starting with the fact they do not contain the deuterocanonical books like Tobit and Maccabees, and are therefore only useful for studying the protestant books of the bible.
NIV in particular was created by "a team of 15 biblical scholars, representing a variety of evangelical denominations", so it's pretty far removed from any "Catholic" edition of the bible.
The ESV is used by the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod church on Sundays.
The ASV is the translation used by Jehovah's Witnesses.
The NKJV is used by a variety of protestant denominations who like the original KJV but want "modernized" English grammar and spelling rules, although Orthodox Christians use the NKJV translation of the new testament for their bible study sessions.
ACTUAL Catholic editions of the bible contain all 73 books of the bible, follow Catholic canon law, and come with an imprimatur granted by a Catholic bishop. Examples include the New American Bible (NAB), the Jerusalem Bible (JB), the Christian Community Bible (CCB) and of course the very Shakespearean-sounding Douay–Rheims Bible (DRB), which would be the Catholic equivalent to the King James version for those who insist on English language of the 1600s for their bible of choice.
>> The KJB is my final authority; not a pastor, not a professor, and certainly not myself. <<
You'd have a rough time being a Christian prior to 1611, since according to you there wouldn't have been a single suitable bible in the world to use to practice your faith. Interesting how people practiced their faith just fine for those 1,600 years, isn't it?
“they are fine with not knowing things that can’t be known.”
This is also their excuse to not be bothered to have a moral compass. Cheating is OK, as long as you’re not caught.
Faith is not “on the table.”
"It's no wonder this generation has become so lost."
Stripping traditional doctrines and faith practices from a religion is like removing the bones from a chicken. It leaves little more than a soon dying carcass.
The press like to pretend that the boneless carcass *is* the religion, but that is not the case.
God gives strength and stability through traditional doctrines and faith practices. Without them, a religion is just people on hard chairs telling each other how virtuous they are.
**The ASV is the translation used by Jehovah’s Witnesses.**
Not so. The JW bible is the “New World Translation”, with a few fabrications for their own doctrines.
The ASV I have is Copyrighted by the Catholic Bible Publishers and has all the imprimaturs in it.
I found it to be very readable, and I was raised on the KJV, which is still my main bible source.
This is not a good time in history for an individual to be selecting the ‘NONE’ option...
The Geneva Bible was still in print long after the KJV was adopted. If you have ever seen an original KJV of that time it is easy to see why. The KJV uses the Old English letering which is hard to read. The Geneva Bible used a more modern type of font.
When the original KJV was republished in the 1880s, they also used a more modern font for it.
"I liberated it from FR a week or so ago"
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