RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD; FELLOWSHIP; WALKING IN THE GARDEN; INTIMATE DIALOGUE PERSON TO PERSON WITH GOD.
(Please stop using all caps.)
Anti-institutionalism of the sort you are advancing is a form of Protestantism. It is the natural development of Protestantism, and can be found in the Anabaptist tradition of Protestantism (think of Quakers, Brethren, etc.). So, we don't need an additional category of the sort you suggest. It is covered by Protestantism.
-A8
There are LOTS of elements of others' posting styles which are annoying, bothersome and sometimes outrageous or even infuriating to me.
Other than playing MIRROR, satire, tweaking games about some of them, I very much construe reality as it well within their purvue to post in whatever style they choose. If I wish to avoid reading them, I can do that.
Yeah, anti-INSTITUTIONS-AS-GOD-ISM is pretty big on my priority list.
I suspect avoidance of 20,001 sects [not leaving out the Roman folks], could be avoided a lot easier and more comfortably than I could avoid CAPS etc. Not sure how to explain that more than I have.
I'm well aware of the responses of some. Might even be a majority for all I know. It's not 100%.
But I have learned over the years that I've been made a certain way and that the way I'm made and live and communicate--resonates with a certain variety of folks. And that I do my Lord and Maker and them a disservice to try and mold myself into the man with the donkey load and the variety of exhortations he received.
Partly sorry . . . being a bit schizophrenic about it . . . I tend to like to please everyone . . . but on this score, I'm afraid, it works much better for me to be me.
Folks are welcome to ignore me and my colorful, brash posts.
AU CONTRAIRE!
I believe Romanism is much MORE the anti-institutional organization in the sense that it takes what GOD has ordained, what God has instituted--in terms of the operations of groups of believers--and kills it--murders it--tortures it to death; stifles it; smothers it; bloodies it; proscribes it; trashes it; . . .
Romanism takes I Cor 14 and essentially attempts to squeeze the life out of all such by demanding sometimes very strict kowtowing to a rigid set of man made rules and interpretations not unlike those of the RELIGIOUS rulers of Jesus' earthly days . . . and then sets about administering human, organizational punishments accordingly--quite independent of what God is or isn't doing with the individuals concerned.
Thankfully, there are small pockets here and there within the Roman institution which allow God's Spirit to flow reasonably unchecked AS HE WILL. Else there'd likely be no anointing or true witness of God within the whole organization.