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To: Gamecock
In the end, Andy Ferguson left the liberal seminary, converted to Catholicism, and went into the business world. He told Dave Shiflett that liberal Protestantism is doomed. "Mainline Protestantism will reach a certain point where it will appeal only to Wiccans, vegetarians, sandal-wearers, and people who play the recorder. No one will feel at home there if they believe in God."

I'll never understand why Roman Catholicism is still considered a "conservative" denomination. Down here in the Bible Belt it is much more liberal than the multitude of Fundamentalist Protestant churches that are available.

22 posted on 06/21/2006 6:59:57 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Barukh Kevod HaShem mimMeqomo!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Let's see, anti-abortion, anti-homosexual acts, anti-homosexual "marriage," against embryonic stem cell research, against human cloning. Just for those, they're conservative.


30 posted on 06/21/2006 9:12:16 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in... patience, humility, & charity." -St. Philip Neri)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Conservative because it is a dogmatic religion. Fundamentalists depend on an "inerrant" Bible whose very text they owe to the Catholic Church but more importantly, dogmas such as the Trinity, which is the very anchor of orthodox religion and the belief that the Jewish Scriptures are Christian and not the possesion of the children of Israel alone. I might mention the specific moral teaching that marriage is forever, a doctrine that is honored more in the breech than in its observance in Mississippi.


40 posted on 06/22/2006 7:29:15 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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