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they think they are, but they are too far behind in spiritual understanding. Nothing's new.
Y'all can't have it both ways. You can't brag about how many christians there are and then start excluding those who have different views than you do. You're not the decider.
I cannot believe this is a headline today, seriously...book burning?!
Anyone who is familiar with world history knows this is NOT about 'books, the parents do not like' or books they dont want their kids to read...there are very specific reasons for book burning historically, and that should be a big red flag to anyone.
Look back in history at the groups that advocated burning books...need I say more? This is no different today.
Y'all can't have it both ways. You can't brag about how many Christians there are and then start excluding those who have different views than you do. You're not the decider.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of world you actually live in, Phet. What significant grouping of humans, as in Buddhists or Christians or Muslims, etc. have no significant diversity within them????
Sometimes I wonder what kind of world you actually live in, Phet. What significant grouping of humans, as in Buddhists or Christians or Muslims, etc. have no significant diversity within them????
Excuse me, but I'm not the one who started excluding certain christians. The other poster was doing that.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of world you actually live in, Phet. What significant grouping of humans, as in Buddhists or Christians or Muslims, etc. have no significant diversity within them????
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Excuse me, but I'm not the one who started excluding certain christians. The other poster was doing that.
I did not get that from his post. It seems he was placing them as a minority view that is spiritually immature.
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they think they are, but they are too far behind in spiritual understanding. Nothing's new.
Right. Age 8-16 I was methodist. Age 16-37, Catholic.
Of course I can't be sure, but I don't think any of the Christians I knew would have participated in book burning. But I do think many would have agreed with book banning in the schools and the Kings Daughters Free Library in town.
Of course, my town had some non-noble history in forcing Joseph Smith out of town, and even when I was a child townspeople claimed that Joseph Smith was thrown out of town because he was a horse thief, not because of the Mormon religion he founded. Historically there is no evidence whatsoever of him being a horse thief. So I'm not sure what I can attribute to our town's people.
Ah, I thought it was the opposite, Catholic first, Methodist second.
I never knew exactly where Palmyra was except for somewhere vaguely "upstate", so I just looked it up. Farther west than I thought, close to Rochester.
Ah, I thought it was the opposite, Catholic first, Methodist second.
I never knew exactly where Palmyra was except for somewhere vaguely "upstate", so I just looked it up. Farther west than I thought, close to Rochester.
Yes, 21 miles east of Rochester.
Quite a religious town back then. Famous for the 4 "mainstream" churches on the "Four Corners" -- Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Episcopal. With the Catholic Church down Church Street. To show how deep the feelings were about Mormonism, there was no Mormon Church in the town until the mid-1960s (and almost across from my boyhood home; Joseph Smith's old farm was just over the back hill and just a 15 minute walk from where I grew up, and Hill Cumorah where Joseph Smith was supposedly given the Golden Plates was a couple of miles south on our road.
Recently the Methodist Church I grew up in went out of business. The Catholic Church has gone from something like 16 masses a week when I was a boy down to 1.
Interestingly, the Underground Railroad operated through (I think) our Presbyterian Church, although it may have been the Methodist Church.
Excuse me, but I'm not the one who started excluding certain christians. The other poster was doing that.
Actually, you are. You're excluding ALL OTHER Christians who DON'T believe in what you've submitted.
Your title, "Freedom of thought in Christianity" suggests that ALL Christians believe and practice as the small sect in the video. The guy in the video is a zealot. Yes, they profess to be "Christian". Obviously not.
Please don't use the "100" or so "christians" doing this to justify your prejudice against the BILLIONS who don't...
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