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I thought the minus was in reference to your avatar? Hmmmm, I guess I looked too far back.
Next time I'm gonna beat you with my cane.
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Hey, I know how I can play the tune to that-- I'm one of the "wind instruments".
Warning: Lengthy rant! I apologize if my sarcasm is unbearable but it is how I talk in person as well as online; so if I am overstating my case just take it as exaggeration. My post is merely my attitude toward Protestantism but you do not have to read it and can merely respond about your own views or you can rant like me
This brilliant quote by our RF's lovely Franky has summed up my attitude towards Protestant Christianity or what I have often been calling Protestantianity. To me the Protestant movement is a mixture of separate religions splintering from an old and more classical religion known as Christianity which has only 2 very dominant sects known as Catholicism and Orthodox. I have taken the time to study these denominations and see how they all mesh and my only opinion on it is that of scorn. I cannot acknowledge Protestantism as anything remotely Christian.
I was raised in a non-denomination house and was always taught that long ago in America came Christianity and Catholicism splintered off around 200 years ago and moved to Mexico where it has caused us trouble ever since. A 3rd grade education in history can easily solve that blunder in history right up for you. Oh boy was I shocked to find the opposite of everything I was taught by the people around me.
The protestant movement can easily be summed up by a mixture of Evangelicals and New Age woo wrapped into one low quality Taco Bell burrito. Protestantism at face value is about as hostile to Jesus as Gandhi was opposed to wielding an AK-47.
Within Christianity I find these historical establishments of faith and discipline and when looking at Protestant religions I see well . . . a different religion. Not even my college history professor would call Protestantism a Christian movement but instead called it a "multiplicity of religions that emerged from another religion." This women I should add was not even religious. When she was further asked by a student, why in all her years of studying European history she regarded Protestantism as a different religion her response was that it had no bearing in Christian theology. I was in the front row of the class so I had to contain by laughter obviously.
Every saturday I would turn on my TV and see these American ministers ramblings like stroke victims on quaaludes and all I can think to myself is, "holy****, these men must be in the wrong comedy club because nobody is laughing." It is as if they have no understanding of historical Christianity or the piety of Catholics and Orthodox Churches and how they brought their preaching into practice. Yet with Protestants all we see is men in 3 piece suits who are more interested in winning over congressmen than trying to say anything of remote religious or moral value.
Even when looking at centuries old Protestant movements all I can find is radical groups being spawned due to political motivations or the need to strategically target a group of people for reasons of greed or grandeur. Baptists, Methodists, Calvinists and Pentecostals are all a weird amalgamation of cults like spawnings that are based off some weird man's ramblings in order to stir crows and start a spiritual riot. I can literally through Scientology and the Unification Church in the same pot as Protestantism and be intellectually accurate with how I treat them all the same. Their backgrounds, theological progression and assessment in the world is no different.
Protestantism repulsed me from Christianity and I can easily tell you how. My minister growing up was this very charlatan:
For 10 years I went to this church every agonizing Sunday listening to Frederick KC Price and attended this football stadium . . . *cough* I mean "church" known as the Faith Dome.
Warning: Lengthy rant! I apologize if my sarcasm is unbearable but it is how I talk in person as well as online; so if I am overstating my case just take it as exaggeration. My post is merely my attitude toward Protestantism but you do not have to read it and can merely respond about your own views or you can rant like me
This brilliant quote by our RF's lovely Franky has summed up my attitude towards Protestant Christianity or what I have often been calling Protestantianity. To me the Protestant movement is a mixture of separate religions splintering from an old and more classical religion known as Christianity which has only 2 very dominant sects known as Catholicism and Orthodox. I have taken the time to study these denominations and see how they all mesh and my only opinion on it is that of scorn. I cannot acknowledge Protestantism as anything remotely Christian.
I was raised in a non-denomination house and was always taught that long ago in America came Christianity and Catholicism splintered off around 200 years ago and moved to Mexico where it has caused us trouble ever since. A 3rd grade education in history can easily solve that blunder in history right up for you. Oh boy was I shocked to find the opposite of everything I was taught by the people around me.
The protestant movement can easily be summed up by a mixture of Evangelicals and New Age woo wrapped into one low quality Taco Bell burrito. Protestantism at face value is about as hostile to Jesus as Gandhi was opposed to wielding an AK-47.
Within Christianity I find these historical establishments of faith and discipline and when looking at Protestant religions I see well . . . a different religion. Not even my college history professor would call Protestantism a Christian movement but instead called it a "multiplicity of religions that emerged from another religion." This women I should add was not even religious. When she was further asked by a student, why in all her years of studying European history she regarded Protestantism as a different religion her response was that it had no bearing in Christian theology. I was in the front row of the class so I had to contain by laughter obviously.
Every saturday I would turn on my TV and see these American ministers ramblings like stroke victims on quaaludes and all I can think to myself is, "holy****, these men must be in the wrong comedy club because nobody is laughing." It is as if they have no understanding of historical Christianity or the piety of Catholics and Orthodox Churches and how they brought their preaching into practice. Yet with Protestants all we see is men in 3 piece suits who are more interested in winning over congressmen than trying to say anything of remote religious or moral value.
Even when looking at centuries old Protestant movements all I can find is radical groups being spawned due to political motivations or the need to strategically target a group of people for reasons of greed or grandeur. Baptists, Methodists, Calvinists and Pentecostals are all a weird amalgamation of cults like spawnings that are based off some weird man's ramblings in order to stir crows and start a spiritual riot. I can literally through Scientology and the Unification Church in the same pot as Protestantism and be intellectually accurate with how I treat them all the same. Their backgrounds, theological progression and assessment in the world is no different.
Protestantism repulsed me from Christianity and I can easily tell you how. My minister growing up was this very charlatan:
For 10 years I went to this church every agonizing Sunday listening to Frederick KC Price and attended this football stadium . . . *cough* I mean "church" known as the Faith Dome.
Warning: Lengthy rant! I apologize if my sarcasm is unbearable but it is how I talk in person as well as online; so if I am overstating my case just take it as exaggeration. My post is merely my attitude toward Protestantism but you do not have to read it and can merely respond about your own views or you can rant like me
This brilliant quote by our RF's lovely Franky has summed up my attitude towards Protestant Christianity or what I have often been calling Protestantianity. To me the Protestant movement is a mixture of separate religions splintering from an old and more classical religion known as Christianity which has only 2 very dominant sects known as Catholicism and Orthodox. I have taken the time to study these denominations and see how they all mesh and my only opinion on it is that of scorn. I cannot acknowledge Protestantism as anything remotely Christian.
I was raised in a non-denomination house and was always taught that long ago in America came Christianity and Catholicism splintered off around 200 years ago and moved to Mexico where it has caused us trouble ever since. A 3rd grade education in history can easily solve that blunder in history right up for you. Oh boy was I shocked to find the opposite of everything I was taught by the people around me.
The protestant movement can easily be summed up by a mixture of Evangelicals and New Age woo wrapped into one low quality Taco Bell burrito. Protestantism at face value is about as hostile to Jesus as Gandhi was opposed to wielding an AK-47.
Within Christianity I find these historical establishments of faith and discipline and when looking at Protestant religions I see well . . . a different religion. Not even my college history professor would call Protestantism a Christian movement but instead called it a "multiplicity of religions that emerged from another religion." This women I should add was not even religious. When she was further asked by a student, why in all her years of studying European history she regarded Protestantism as a different religion her response was that it had no bearing in Christian theology. I was in the front row of the class so I had to contain by laughter obviously.
Every saturday I would turn on my TV and see these American ministers ramblings like stroke victims on quaaludes and all I can think to myself is, "holy****, these men must be in the wrong comedy club because nobody is laughing." It is as if they have no understanding of historical Christianity or the piety of Catholics and Orthodox Churches and how they brought their preaching into practice. Yet with Protestants all we see is men in 3 piece suits who are more interested in winning over congressmen than trying to say anything of remote religious or moral value.
Even when looking at centuries old Protestant movements all I can find is radical groups being spawned due to political motivations or the need to strategically target a group of people for reasons of greed or grandeur. Baptists, Methodists, Calvinists and Pentecostals are all a weird amalgamation of cults like spawnings that are based off some weird man's ramblings in order to stir crows and start a spiritual riot. I can literally through Scientology and the Unification Church in the same pot as Protestantism and be intellectually accurate with how I treat them all the same. Their backgrounds, theological progression and assessment in the world is no different.
Protestantism repulsed me from Christianity and I can easily tell you how. My minister growing up was this very charlatan:
For 10 years I went to this church every agonizing Sunday listening to Frederick KC Price and attended this football stadium . . . *cough* I mean "church" known as the Faith Dome.
