[LadyDoc]

In our home town in the Philippines, the only clean places (i.e. no garbage, clean walls, nice flowers, no graffiti) are the Iglesia de Cristo and the LDS churches...

They have the Calvinist/northern European tradition of works/cleanliness/order along with their teaching. So if you want an honest worker, get a nice Protestant or LDS member.

But if you want friendliness, fun, and being in a large extended family the Catholics are the way to go ;-)

[sociotard]

Originally posted by LadyDoc
In our home town in the Philippines, the only clean places (i.e. no garbage, clean walls, nice flowers, no graffiti) are the Iglesia de Cristo and the LDS churches...

I wonder how much of the cleanliness you've noticed is due to these churches being controlled from other countries. When I worked in the Dominican Republic, Small evangelistic churches were kept up about as well as any lower-class home. The big catholic churches, at least outside the biggest cities, had the look of having been beautiful once, but having fallen into disrepair (cracked bell, flaking paint, smashed windows, sloppy repairs, you get the idea). Once you got to protestant churches that were run by americans or europeans, they were always imaculate, as were the LDS churches.

*thinks* no, it must not be the american influence. The Jehovas Witnesses had crappy churches too. At least in the small towns I visited.

[P-Marlowe]

So if you want an honest worker, get a nice Protestant or LDS member. But if you want friendliness, fun, and being in a large extended family the Catholics are the way to go ;-)

What if you want to please God, know the truth, and go to heaven. Which road ought you to choose?