Thank you, and thank you all for your warm welcome. I’m flattered.
Actually, furt, I have been thinking about that. I have some problems in that I am on the other side of the world from most of you, plus my internet access is not always good, but I think I will try. Perhaps sometime this week, after I get all my papers graded.
Theologue said:
These “little tiffs” have been the cause of much bloodshed and much hurt throughout history. The Ecumenicals all seem friendly and hunky dory now, but there was a time when that was not the case.
Again-my question (related to my original question that has not been answered) is WHY? Why not live and let live? So, you believe in the continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit (whatever that may mean; I am not familiar with that, but would like to know more)–so why judge a religion that does not espouse that? Or vice versa–why should another sect diss you guys for believing that? Labelling the hellfire and damnation called down by some preachers onto those who don’t agree with their interp as “little tiffs” boggles my mind, a bit.
That has never made any sense to me and frankly, is one of the biggest turn-offs of Christianity as a whole. I do not believe that God had condemned how many Jews and Muslims etc to hell for eternity b/c they have not accepted Jesus as their Savior.
And I can predict the answer–it is that religion is made up of men and women and we are frail and faulty etc. (at least, that is the answer given me by my pastor–I am not trying to put words into your mouth!).
To that I say: Bullshit. You’re supposed to be following Jesus’ teachings, not making up shit as you go along d/t cultural needs and economic forces etc.
I will never understand Christianity–it was a great aid at one point in my life. Now I look at it with puzzlement.
I think a “Ask the conservative Christian” would be a great thread.
Theologue, I’d like to make one small correction. Anglicans, aka Episcopalians in the United States (they changed the name around the time of the Revolutionary War) are technically not Protestant. As I understand it, we’re more or less half-way between main-line Protestantism and Cathlocism. Indeed, a joke in my church is a good Episcopalian family is what you get when a Baptist marries a Catholic! 
CJ
Which forum should this go in, and/or which mod should I contact to ask?
Personally, I would prefer MPSIMS and not GD; it’s way too broad of a subject for GD.
Thanks.
Ah! More than that, Siege. As my Anglican SO explained it to me (in between going over the proper pronuciation of “fillet” and why it’s “pavement” and not “sidewalk”) the Anglican Church is definatly not Protestent…and rather than cutting themselves off from the Catholic Church, what happened was the True Church divested itself of a heretical wing. Thus Anglicans are in fact the only true Catholics (Anglican and Episcopalians, even though the latter is…there’s just no polite way of saying this…American )
I think it’d end up in GD whereever you start it. But you can email any mod.
I think you’re probably right, Furt, since it will be similar to witnessing. I’ll open it soon.
I think of Anglicans as both Protestant and non-Roman Catholic. When they split, they also reformed their theology. Also, in some countries the Anglicans have merged with other Protestant denominations.