DomAviator
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ORIGINAL: hermione83 lol, Yeahhh, sure. You must be at the one southern Baptist church that doesn't thinking drinking, gambling, and dancing, even at a wedding is wrong. (I have no huge problem with those, really..). I think if any preacher at any of the many, many baptist churches I've attended/been a member of in my life admitted to being a womanizer half the crowd would fall over dead in their chairs. Not too long ago, there was a huge conspiracy.... oh the shock waves, when a new pastor actually admitted he used to look at porn in a sermon and what horrible effect it had on him. They have told me I'm so bad for loving Harry Potter... OK I am really beginning to think that you are simply trolling for attention but your statement about the Baptists is inaccurate. A key tenent of the Baptist doctrine is the "all you need to do to get to heaven is to accept Christ as your lord and savior and to ask his forgiveness." Unlike the Catholics., they do not believe the preacher to be anyone with an "inside line" to god... He is a mere flawed human just like the congregation... It is QUITE COMMON for them to admit wrongdoings so as to establish common ground with the flock and to show that "I am a sinner too, I am saved and you can be as well". These "I was a bad boy" sermons invariably result in nods of agreement, me toos, and amens as people see themselves in what he is saying. At my church, they actually took the Youth Group to go see the last Harry Potter film as enlightened people know that there is no such thing as sorcery. The Baptists are all about forgiveness and hope and dont seek to tell anyone "they are bad"... I can hardly think of a more "forgiving doctrine"... Arguably the most extreme of the Christians are the Pentecostals. They have been known to speak in tongues, writhe, pass out, start publically confessing their sins to the whole congregation etc. Invariably these confessions are greeted with a chorous of Amens or God Loves You and So Do We or Hallejulia etc... Certainly no scorn and loathing and no guilt trips... They would welcome charlie manson into their midst and if he asked forgiveness and started praising jesus, they would cum in their pants with excitement over "pulling another soul from the brink".... Are you SURE you dont have them confused with the Jehovahs Witnesses? They DO have sanctions like "disfellowshipment" in which someone is ostracized for their sins... Edited to add: As for the dancing thing, thats soooooooooooooooooo in the past. Baptist churches, except for the hardline fundamentalists have dances for the youth group, dance lessons for the kids, senior dances for the elderly etc... Here is a link to a parentlal permission form for a Baptist dance http://secondbaptistsuffield.org/ftp/group_1/WU5ZXHNCKDK86H4UG23XSCQT59H78BDC/Dance%20Permission%20Form.pdf This site is from a dancewear supplier - scroll down and note who is listed under "Thanks for your support" http://www.danidancewear.com/ This is a schedule of contra dancers - take a look at some of the venues they are performing in... http://www.contradance.org/html/schedule.php So there are SEVERAL geographically disparate Baptist churches kind of blowing a hole in your theory about Baptists and dancing.... In case it didnt though ... Baylor University is the largest Baptist College in the world - so how do you explain this: http://www3.baylor.edu/Social_Dance/ or this http://www3.baylor.edu/dance/ or this http://baylorbears.cstv.com/ot/spirit-squad.html ????
< Message edited by DomAviator -- 7/18/2008 10:30:37 PM >
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