I have had this conversation so many times

[candid]

First, from the Saddleback Forum:WARREN: Now, you’ve made no doubts about your faith in Jesus Christ. What does that mean to you? What does it mean to you to trust in Christ? And what does that mean to you on a daily basis? What does that really look like

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[altamira16]

All Christians believe in the cosmic Jewish Zombie. Only some believe that the rapture is something that will happen in their lifetime. Only some are in communities where the politics is an extension of the local church. Only some believe that you have to throw yourself on the floor in fake epileptic fits and talk in tongues to your cosmic Jewish Zombie.

[candid]

And only some believe in "Black Liberation Theology".

[altamira16]

Here is a list of Fundamental Truths of the Assembly of God churches. That is the one that Sarah Palin attended that people have the most problems with.

There has been stuff tying the Assembly of God churches to something Pentacostal so some of the above was about Pentacostals in general, but if Palin is a Pentacostal in my view she is a strange one. Pentacostals tend to speak in tongues, not allow their women to wear pants (Palin does), not allow women to wear skirts that expose the knees (Palin does), and not all women to cut their hair. I don't think they watch television either. Or this is my experience with the Pentacostals that I attended school with.

You also have a ton of video of Palin speaking before people at the church. You don't have so much of Obama doing that. A casual believer is not typically invited to speak before the church.

[anne_keckler]

You have a very limited view of pentecostals. There are even pentecostal televangelists.

Why does it matter whether Obama spoke before his church?

[altamira16]

I didn't claim extensive knowledge of Pentacostals. I just said that those particular traits that were memorable about the ones I knew as a Child. Ask me about how confused I was the first time I saw a Catholic on Ash Wednesday.

[anne_keckler]

Yeah, I realize you were admitting your limited knowledge. Honestly, I'd hoped you'd be as freaked out AND perhaps as amused as I am by Jan Crouch and her ilk.

The first time my brother saw a Catholic on Ash Wednesday (at about the age of 3) he started screaming because he thought the person had a hole in their head. The first time my husband saw a Catholic on Ash Wednesday he was an adult, and he told his Catholic co-worker he had some dirt on his forehead. Unfortunately, I don't remember the first time I saw a Catholic on Ash Wednesday.

Religion is weird.