What Denomination Are You?

[rug]

My leader is totally the Antichrist.

[rexcat]

1. None of the above

[MarkCharles]

2. How is this chart topic being respectful to people with earnest religious beliefs?

What is the intention of the religious group here and how does this thread contribute positively?

[Goblinmonger]

3. +1

If you (or I) had posted this, it would have been popcorn time.

[deacon_sephiroth]

4. well if you did it, you'd be stereotyping

and that would make you a bigot
and that would be against the nature of this website LET ALONE the good and decent foundations of this group
and that might have to be decided by a jury (foregone conclusion)
and that should make you ashamed of yourself
and why are you even here if that's all you're going to do
and why is your avatar a stapler? Are you trying to make fun of religion or confuse people?

but you didn't...
so it's different...
right?

[MarkCharles]

8. If I had done it, I'm sure I would have been banned from

further membership privileges here.

But I guess it works differently for different people with "special rights" to make fun of fellow Christians.

[rug]

9. What special rights are those?

[tama]

5. Human way

It's OK for my to make fun of my family, but if you start badmouthing my loved ones,...

[Goblinmonger]

7. So being a baptized and confirmed Catholic

I can have it?

[tama]

14. More to do with

emotional closeness than with ideological definitions, but they can and do overlap.

Please don't think I'm stopping you in any way...

[Dorian Gray]

18. Have at it

but I wouldn't mess with the Eastern Orthodox if I were you.

[rug]

6. I doubt the Christian Century is a hate site.

http://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2012-01/seriously-are-you-baptist

Nor is Lutheran Satire.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lutheran-Satire/173746872678423

I have no opinion on how you take it.

[cbayer]

10. Why didn't you complain and alert when this one was posted?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12185074

[rug]

11. Why would I do that?

[cbayer]

12. Wasn't talking to you,rug.

[rug]

13. Ah, I see.

[ZombieHorde]

15. Funny.

Laughing at ourselves is a good thing, in my opinion.

[cbayer]

16. Could not agree more, zombie

[aquarius venus]

21. Is that why you have such a good sense of humor about yourself?

(I thought you were a chick! Maybe you just have a lot of estrogen from too much soy? )

[Rowdyboy]

17. I'm an Episcopalian....

I believe things happened before 1950
My leader wears a ridiculous hat
No one take me seriously

I'm an Episco, Presby, Lutheran

Certainly works for me

[Angry Dragon]

19. You should explain your comment in the OP

[rug]

22. Start with Roman Catholic and work backwards.

[Angry Dragon]

24. You are going on record saying the Roman Catholics are anti-christ??

and that they are your leaders??

[rug]

25. You are going on record as disingenously obtuse.

[Angry Dragon]

26. I hate people that post and then refuse to explain themselves

[aquarius venus]

20. I was raised as Disciples of Christ

which is a liberal Christian sect. No fire and brimstone crap. Now I call myself spiritual and am not into Christianity in its organized sense but I dig the mystics.

[rug]

23. Didn't LBJ belong to the Disciples of Christ?

[ButterflyBlood]

27. I like the Disciples, I think I'm closest theologically to them than any other denom

What I really like is they are one of the few mainline denoms to only baptize adults. I don't see the point in baptizing babies. I've never been to one of their services though, which is a little funny because I live very close to one of their churches (it's actually where I vote).

[lindysalsagal]

28. Assembly of the Church of the Whatever it is....

[darkstar3]

29. Of course, it's wrong.

Humorous assumptions about anti-christs aside and other idiocy aside, "Non-denominational" is far more aligned with the Assembly of God than it is with the Baptists. I should know, I was one for many years.

[rug]

30. You were Pentecostal?

[darkstar3]

31. More that than anything else.

When the church split when I was a teenager, a whole lot of people ended up at the AOG down the street because that church's views meshed so well.

[ButterflyBlood]

32. Non-denominational means just that, no denomination

The joke here is that a lot of churches that preach essentially Baptist theology are "non-denominational" because they won't affiliate with any Baptist association (like most megachurches), but it refers to pretty much church that doesn't. The whole emerging church movement is definitely not Baptist or AoG-esque and they too are mostly non-denominational, so is the church that some people I know are founding that is self described as progressive and LGBT-affirming. There are churches close to the Assembly of God that are non-denominational too, like the one you were involved in, but saying non-denominational churches are all aligned with something else is like saying independents mostly lean Democratic or Republican, an independent can to be to the left of the Democrats, right of the Republicans, some mushy centrist, agree with one of the parties more but dislike them for other reasons, have politics that don't fit well on the spectrum, etc.

[darkstar3]

33. I wasn't talking about just my old church.

Nearly every non-denominational church within a 50 mile radius (and there were many, many NDCs) was an AOG clone with smaller buildings and shittier music.

[ButterflyBlood]

36. Our areas must be quite different, we have some very progressive non-denomational churches here

I actually go to one, it's basically a liberal charismatic evangelical church. Yes, such a thing exists!

[GliderGuider]

34. I'm not sure about the denomination, but the church I attend is called

Our Lady of the Erroneous Assumption

[rug]

35. That's funny.

It's also the name of my favorite internet discussion group.

[NOLALady]

37. Funny.

Totally nailed me as a Roman Catholic.