Uganda debates death penalty for gays

[Razgovory]

The hillbilly Southern Baptist kids I went to high school with were allowed to skip church whenever a woman was conducting the service (non denominational church).

Glad to see somebody pays attention to the Epistles to Timothy.

Oh most of those were just letters chiding him for being to over-enthusiastic.

[Ed Anger]

Women preachers? Awful.

They can't testify good enough.

[Neil]

Not just Lutheran - I think most (all?) protestant denominations don't have an issue with women.

Southern Baptists.  My wife was horrified when she found out that my childhood church had had a woman pastor.  And even moreso when she found out that they had replaced all the Bible teachings with socialism and anti-Americanism.

[Neil]

Does "protestant" cover everybody who is Christian and not Catholic or some sort of Orthodox variety?  Do my church or the Unitarians count as "protestants"?

Are Unitarians actually Christians?  Seems like new-age bullshit to me.

[ulmont]

In the US, btw, charismatics are distinctly different from snake handlers and the like.

I'm not sure about that.  The "Charismatic Christian" church my Aunt and Uncle switched to definitely has a lot of speaking in tongues and the like...

[Sheilbh]

Does "protestant" cover everybody who is Christian and not Catholic or some sort of Orthodox variety?  Do my church or the Unitarians count as "protestants"?

Protestants are Western Churches that aren't Catholic.  Globally they're not Catholic, Ortho or Oriental

[katmai]

American Catholics are usually too drunk to get riled up about sin.

[Valmy]

Are Unitarians actually Christians?  Seems like new-age bullshit to me.

Unitarianism is from the 16th century.

[Admiral Yi]

Glad to see somebody pays attention to the Epistles to Timothy.

Their dad also got up in another missionary's face because the bible he translated into Korean was not the real bible, i.e. the King James version.

[ulmont]

Does "protestant" cover everybody who is Christian and not Catholic or some sort of Orthodox variety? 

Protestant = Christians - Catholic - Anglican - Orthodox, yes.

Do my church or the Unitarians count as "protestants"?

The Unitarians, yes.

[Valmy]

The Unitarians, yes.

Just curious.  That is a pretty big tent to make generalizations about then.

[Neil]

Are Unitarians actually Christians?  Seems like new-age bullshit to me.

Unitarianism is from the 16th century idiot.

And magical power crystals are millenia older than that, you dumb cunt.  It doesn't make it any less new-age bullshit.

[Admiral Yi]

My impression is that Unitarianism is based on political correctness, not New Age weirdness.

I'd like to go to a service some time, check it out.

[Valmy]

And magical power crystals are millenia older than that, you dumb cunt.  It doesn't make it any less new-age bullshit.

Go fuck yourself.  I don't need this bullshit.  If you need to believe not thinking Jesus is a zombie jew who committed a blood sacrifice to himself and everything else is "new age bullshit" go right fucking ahead.

[Valmy]

My impression is that Unitarianism is based on political correctness, not New Age weirdness.

Ah no that is Unitarian Universalism.