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Originally Posted by Preds
We're shockingly in complete agreement here (for us to agree is very RARE indeed)!
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Mark down the date. It may be a while before it happens again.
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Originally Posted by Preds
In fairness to Christianity as a whole, I should backtrack a bit and refocus that argument/claim against Born Again Christianity (generally Baptists and Protestants). That's the Christian religion I have the most experience with from childhood, and IMO, they are in general the biggest groups of hypocrits and/or least accepting in the Christian Church. They may say they're accpeting of others, but from what I've seen/experienced, no way.
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I really don't know if there is a strict definition of born again. I have a friend who was athiest for a while, then agnostic, and now recently was confirmed (or whatever the term is for it) Catholic. I don't know if that fits the definition of born again, but his views are certainly inclusive. I think a number of Protestant demoninations (and at this point I should say you cannot really group schools of thought as simply as Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, etc, since their views can range so greatly) are too exclusive, not accepting another denominations baptism for example, but others are similar to Catholicism in their acceptance. Now I'm rambling and lost my train of thought, so I'll go on to the next point...
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Originally Posted by Preds
Catholics are pretty acccomodatng to other religions, I find a Catholic service too ritualistic and boring. And what's with the Pope "writing" the weekly masses a year or years in advance?.
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I prefer the ritual to new age services. My sister is a Baptist and they go to the modern service. I just can't feel like I am in church when there is a three piece band on stage playing, which leads into a multi media presentation of some message from the Bible. I also prefer, if I had to choose, Catholicism (no offense Jim, set me straight where I am wrong) since they are the least strict in their interpretation of the historical accuracies of the Bible.
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Originally Posted by Preds
In reality, I don't have big issues with Catholics, Lutherans, methodists... I just find no comfort / desire to hear their message.
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I hear that. Though, I will say I have no problem discussing the ideas of theology with a believer, as long as they can accept that neither one of us will know the truth until we're dead. Those that refuse to acknowledge another point of view could be correct starts the discussion without a logical foundation, in my opinion.