ONTD Original: Great Scandals of The Evangelical Church

[ladyjj]

Happy end of the year! Don't fear, I am still plodding away on research on some requests but I though this might be a good spot to slide in what a denomination actually IS as we move forward. Granted this is a very down and dirty explanation, because I am not really a theologian, I am just a poor history buff who reads hard-copy encyclopedias and

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[magicpebble]

Very interesting! My mom grew up in the Reformed Church (the American version of Dutch Reformed), and we went to the same church for awhile when I was a kid, but they slowly got more conservative over time and we stopped going. That church recently split from the main denomination because they didn't want to support marriage equality, and that type of thing seems to be happening a lot.

I do think it will be interesting to see how well liberal churches survive in the future because it seems like more and more liberal people, at least in my experience in the US, have stopped going to church. Almost none of my friends are members of a church, even among those people who would still call themselves Christian.

[magicpebble]

Good point about the clique-y aspect. That was absolutely part of the problem at my childhood church and was a factor in why my dad hated that place so much by the time we left. It's amazing (and sad) how high school attitudes continue and thrive in adulthood.

[ladyjj]

I feel like the clique-y aspect of church has something to do with it.

Oh GOD, church cliques are the absolute WORST. I'd rather my public school junior high bullies than the youth group ones. It was brutal and awful and I never forgive any of them heaux.

[ladyjj]

I am REALLY interested in that as well! I do have friends who are part of organized churches (and they are actual Christians in the proper sense of the word and the only ones I will tolerate any religious based conversations with) but there's a solid chuck of my Northeast based "Christian" friends who don't belong to a congregation and the ones they do belong to are Unitarian/Presbyterian/Catholic and the only one in a 'mega-church' is my friend's kid and that's Park St. in Boston.