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aephi alum- I'm curious, did you select Judaism after you joined AEPhi, or before?
ETA: I know quite a few people who were raised in some form of Christianity and moved to Judaism anywhere from late teens to adulthood. They are some of the happiest religious people I know :) |
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Having not, to this point, seen anything that resonates with me, particularly since I've never been a fan of the concept of Truth, how could I do anything but 'shop.' Hence why I'm not, as 33girl suggested, heading off to 'experience' anything. It wouldn't be honest. |
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I so hear you on the pomp thing, I like my service less contemporary, and more singing older songs, reflecting in silence, and keeping it under an hour and a half. I need vestments and paraments so I know where I am in the Church year and I like the ritual of it all, including the standing, sitting, and kneeling. If it wasn't for vestments I'd have no idea if it was a Presbyterian or Lutheran week at the church in Delta, so I'd peep Pastor Bear's ensemble and grab the right books if I was late. |
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See now this is how you get a conversation started. Challenge people's faith instead of their Theology and you get these reactions. Oh also I was kidding.I respect agnostics being that agnosticism is the most misunderstood school of thought. People always assume agnostics are fence sitters This coming from a personal experience. |
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For the record, some agnostics are fence sitters. As with any other "school of thought" (if you wish to call it that) there is diversity within that includes fence sitters and people who blow whichever way the wind blows. |
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Well here's a question I have, coming form a Catholic's standpoint.
Several times recently, and less frequently in my younger years, some non-Catholic Christians have essentially told me that Catholics are not real Christians. A lot of other Catholics I know have said they've encountered the same thing. Why do some other Christians think that? I remember being a freshman in college, and a girl I became friends with down the hall grew up in the Baptist faith, and she would come to my room and I would do her eyebrows for her, and she'd always ask me stuff like "Why do you pray to saints? Why do they matter? Why do ya'll love Mary so much? Why do you go to confession?" And I'd answer her to the best of my ability (13 years of Catholic school prepped me for these visits!), but at the end of our conversations, she'd still say "Well, ya'll still aren't "real" Christians." What the hell does that MEAN?!?! The most memorable one in recent memory was I went to a local Christian bookstore by my house this past spring, hoping to find a gift for my God-daughter's First Holy Communion. I wandered around for a while, not seeing what I was looking for, so I asked the girls at the checkout counter. Never in my life have I felt like such dirt! The one girls response, complete with sneer on her face, was "Well, you're just gonna have to go to a 'Catholic' bookstore for stuff like that, we don't recognize all that stuff, so we don't carry anything to support it." I'm standing there thinking... wtf? All I could say was "Ok, thanks." and I walked out. Oh, and I found a perfect childs book of saints at a Catholic bookstore. |
Hmmmm.....I always thought that Catholics were the "original" Christians.
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Me and Mary, we're tight. I pray a Hail Mary every day. But we also say a Lords prayer and the Nicene Creed at every mass. I always want to say the Nicene Creed when people tell me Catholics don't beleive the same thing "real Christians" do.
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Oh I know. I was raised a Roman Catholic, and still hold to some of the ideals, like devotion towards Mary. I also think the Bishop of Rome is first among equals.
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