Opinions about Church...

[cajun]

TWOLF, you couldn't be further from the truth.
You seem to be Completly ignorent about baptist/southernbaptist.
I am a Baptist/Southern I guess, at least thats the churchs I usuelly go to.  They couldn't be more opposite of the things you posted, and for your info, not just baptist but many people in the south I find to be LESS racist then allot of people I've met up north!
Most northerners pretend that we are all stupid racist hillbillies down here, but in fact from my experience of traveling all over the US, studying history, and meeting people, I find most ppl who think they are smart are absolutly stupid and the ones who are smart don't realise it! Anyway, I don't mean to start a North VS South flame war, or any flame war for that matter.

 I have never heard one word i can recall about baptist being for slavery and all that junk you posted.
Christianity is one of the most "hated" religions, why? its allways been like that, all throughout history christians (not including catholic churchs and such) have been descriminated against! even by fellow "Christians"(bigger churchs)!
In schools u cant mention "Jesus" or anything like that, oh u can talk all u want about Buddah or any other religion all you want though. Funny since first settlers of america, the people who beleived in freedom, etc. were christians eh?

It doesnt surprize me people make up junk like that.
Just because you hear it on the internet doesnt mean its true, infact 80% of the junk u hear is usuelly lies, madeup, or the person writing it just don't know what in the world they are talking about.

Southernbaptists/baptists (excepting the occasional weirdo) were the ones descriminated against, not the opposite.
As was the civil war, north rewrote history with propaganda etc. and made the south into this terrible monstor racist nation, when in reality the north was little better, and many who fought for the south (as my great great grand father) were against slavery/racistism. but we want to pretend it never happened, erase all traces of history, I've seen and many of my relatives (big family of historians) have read books writen in the south & north at the time of the civil war, not the rewritten junk.

Sorry i don't mean to hijack thread and turn it into a civil war discussion, i just find it sad people are so ignorent of the period and are making such an effort to erase all history of the time period!

[lazs2]

It would be good if they would simply set a really really  good example that I could look at and follow.... or not.
lazs

[TWOLF]

Originally posted by culero
Oh, so now you're wanting to slide back to a previous century? Give me a diddlying break.

I'm a half century old, I grew up in the South, I've lived around Baptists all my life, and I know what I said about them is in general true.

The roadkill you're posting from current-day people is NOT representative of the current-day Baptist church, and anyone who says it is is a liar, plain and simple.

You are even wrong when you back-pedal by saying "Not all Southern Baptists are Bigots." A much more true statement would be "Most Southern Baptists are not Bigots."

What went on in the post-Civil War period is another matter, but the post you made slandering Baptists didn't say it was about Baptists from back then, did it? The specific language you used made it seem you meant current Baptists, and in general, not just a few nutcases who claim to be Baptist (and who most Baptists will condemn).

You're casting aspersions (and falsely so) against people who I respect and are good friends in many cases, in case you're wondering why I may seem a little pissed of about this.

culero

I rest my case.

[-aper-]

Could somebody give me the advice which christian faith is the right choice?

Seventh-day Adventists ?
Jehovah's Witnesses ?
Baptists ?
Orthodox churches ?
Catholicists ?
Evangelical Lutheran Churches ?
Mormons ?

Or some others ?

[Gman]

Aper, go with Scientology, they are the multi-level marketting of religions.  Once you get high enough, it's like Amway, other peons and commoners will be kicking up to you, and you can sit on your bellybutton and preach crazy stuff and tell everyone that Battlefield Earth was the best film in history.

[StSanta]

For a non theist, what is quite funny is to see one theist utterly dismiss the teachings or beliefs of another.

'Hahahahm, what an idiot he believes he'll get 72 virgins if he dies as a virgin. how the hell is that gonna happen?'

'Me, I KNOW I'll go to heaven and lay with the SkyDaddy and meet dudes with harps. Now THAT is rational'.

Alright, overplaying it a bit . You get my drift though; the 'rational' faith of one theist is the irrational nonsense of another theist.

95% of all theists in the world have the same religion as their parents. Faith, it seems, is heriditary, and has little to do with who's right or wrong, probably because none are.