"protestant" is not a religion

[jeriquan]

Protestantism is one of three main groups currently within Christianity. The term "Protestant" represents a diverse range of perspectives, denominations, individuals, and related organizations. While no particular belief or practice can be said to define this branch of Christianity (indeed, its most commonly given definition is merely "any

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[endlessautumn]

Its about as relgion as Jedi. Enough pleople in England put it on there voting slip and now its a recognized "religion" over there. Scary huh? Makes me want to put Sith Lord on the Next thing that asks for my relgion.

~A

[poizen37]

Then I must be a Jedi Master. STOP USING THE DARK SIDE ON ME!!!

[digita1prophet]

It may be that originally it was something else, but not today. It's one of the denominations within Christianity.

[jeriquan]

"Protestant" is not a denomination. This was precicely the arguement Adam and I had. "Protestant" refers to about 500 different denominations. It is a broad term used to describe all of them from Jehovah's Whitnesses to the Church of England to Baptists and everything in between.

Kind of like "American" describes people from Alaska, Alabama and New Jersey.

[megastage]

It's funny--I had a conversation with Lurch about religion that afternoon. The deal with Judaism, in my experience, is that no organization represents the place of the Catholic or Orthodox churches. We all just follow various denominations. Outside of Israel, anyway. In Israel, I think Orthodoxy is the state religion but 90% of people practice a homegrown Zionist variant. It's weird.

[digita1prophet]

It's linguisticly imprecise but an accepted way to refer to a particular set of churches within Christianity.

We can argue angels on the head of a pin as much as we want. The reality is a group of people refer to it as a denomination withing Christianity.

Heck, its all mythology one way or the other. Religion is just another political tool to control people who lack the self-motivation to take responsibility for their own actions and would rather explain it away ws the "devil's work" and some false pretenses that they can pretend to repent for their sins in a confession and all is forgiven. If they did something, they should own up to it. Period. End of story.

RANT! RANT! RANT!

[digita1prophet]

which was pretty much like that conversation we had with him regarding pitching and catching....