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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:48 PM Original message |
Pentecostalism is a CULT, not a bonafide religion |
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ChazII (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. Sounds like what I hear |
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Tesla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. My friends grew up in a Pentecostal church |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. If they are Southern Baptist... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. This Atheist doesn't see any difference. BS is BS. |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Characteristics of a cult |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. That sounds like the Republican party. |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. A cult is just |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Read post #5 |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 09:44 AM Response to Reply #12 |
45. Your characteristics can apply to MANY religious groups. Orthodox Jews, for example. |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. me too. |
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dchill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 01:30 AM Response to Reply #2 |
40. Not ALL religions are BS! |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 02:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
42. So you're voting for a cultist? |
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northernsoul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 09:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
46. A bonafide religion is just a cult that's been around for a long time |
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TooRaLoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. Agreed. I grew up in these churches. Rec'd. nt |
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ingac70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. You would know better than anybody... |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:00 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. She left a few years ago |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
11. Years ago my baptist youth group went to a pentecostal service. |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
13. We know people who are recovering pentacostals. Its truly a disease of the mind. |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:06 PM Response to Original message |
15. Does that really apply across the board... |
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DemsUnited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
16. I have a question for you, Paint It Black: What does having a "servant's heart" mean? |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Not really sure to be honest |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
17. I recently discovered this resource. |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 12:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
35. Dark_Christian is a community, not a single person's blog. |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
19. They may be wacko but I support their right to be wacko. |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:15 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. They can believe what they want, but I don't want them running the country! |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
20. It's just a revival of the old Montanist heresy. |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
21. I think the reason Rev. Moon is such a good GOP insider |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
23. all those themes are right there in the bible |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
24. It's all holy horseshit |
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Frank Booth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. This line of attack will do nothing but blow up in our faces. You're not going to turn someone |
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Jane Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 10:06 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. I've known many like you describe. |
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MaraJade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
26. Watchout! |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 09:52 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. This should do your heart good then: |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 10:02 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Do these churches display the characteristics listed in post# 5? |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 09:41 AM Response to Reply #26 |
44. Your mother is in very dangerous territory and |
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AnnieBW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-08-08 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
29. The explaination of glossolalia from a Wiccan |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 12:58 AM Response to Reply #29 |
37. Ha! |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
31. Pentacostals are a religion, not a cult. |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Did you bother reading my entire post? Or did you just knee-jerk and hit 'reply'? |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 01:25 AM Response to Reply #32 |
39. Your experience is not universal. |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #39 |
50. Yours is though. |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
33. They used to be called "Holy Rollers" |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
34. The only difference between a cult and a religion is respectability. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 01:21 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. In most cases, "respectability" comes in the form of political power and money. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
36. Remember the film "CARRIE" Sissy Spacek & John Travolta, 1978 or so... |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 02:29 AM Response to Original message |
41. A "religion" is nothing but a cult that made it |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 02:56 AM Response to Original message |
43. I have family that are Assembly of God, too. |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
47. Tell me which one is NOT a cult |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
48. That is why Rev. Al Sharpton is no longer a Pentacostal minister |
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WA98070 (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
49. Continue insulting persons of faith and see where that gets you. Palin may have beliefs outside ... |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-09-08 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
51. Well, there are different levels of extremism in the pentecostal movement... |
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