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Catholics:

Oppose death penalty
Split in partisan affiliation
More moderate
Opposes abortion
Opposes condoms

Evangelicals:

Support death penalty
Vote Republican by 75% margin
Far right
Opposes abortion
Opposes condoms

I favor the Catholic religion. Evangelicals have all the negatives, none of the positives.
 
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Evangelicals:

Support death penalty
Vote Republican by 75% margin
Far right
Opposes abortion
Opposes condoms
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I was raised in an evangelical church, and many of my friends to this day are evangelical Christians. As far as I know, none of the are opposed to birth control. Also... many of them voted for Obama, which puzzles me. Apparently evangelicals in the south are very different than in the northwest/east.
 
Tabasco said:
I was raised in an evangelical church, and many of my friends to this day are evangelical Christians. As far as I know, none of the are opposed to birth control. Also... many of them voted for Obama, which puzzles me. Apparently evangelicals in the south are very different than in the northwest/east.
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Maybe.

Were they baptists? A majority in Mississippi is southern Baptist. Maybe I'm just unusually prejudiced against them, because they're the majority, and this is a rather far right place, maybe I just associate the two.

But whenever I think of evangelicals, I think of the political positions that are espoused in The Mississippi Baptist, a newspaper which I am for some strange reason still sent. I finger through it every now and again for laughs.

Maybe you're talking about mainline protestants? Mainline protestantism and Catholicism are the more moderate kinds of Christianity. But they are shrinking, while the atheists and evangelicals grow exponetially. We're headed to a religiously polarized future.
 
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Watermark said:
Were they baptists?
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Primarily "Southern" Baptists, with a few Lutheran Brethren thrown in the mix.

Maybe you're talking about mainline protestants? Mainline protestantism and Catholicism are the more moderate kinds of Christianity.
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Nah. When I think of mainline churches, the Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, and Evangelical Lutheran Church come to mind. Most of my conservative evangelical friends would regard these churches as being wishy-washy or even heretical.

But they are shrinking, while the atheists and evangelicals grow exponetially. We're headed to a religiously polarized future.
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Agreed.
 
Tabasco said:
Nah. When I think of mainline churches, the Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, and Evangelical Lutheran Church come to mind. Most of my conservative evangelical friends would regard these churches as being wishy-washy or even heretical.
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I know the feeling. When I encountered other views of Christianity, even when I was leaning agnostic or atheist, I just didn't understand how they thought that way. I was brought up in a totally different environment.

We have a Methodist church in my area that a lot of my friends went to though. But the Methodist churches in the south lean sort of towards where the Southern Baptists are - I believe they are a lot more radical than the mainline church in general.

I remember reading one of my friend's blog on myspace, and she said that she wished that peace would never happen in Israel, because it was fortold by the prophecy that would be when the world would end. And I was like, WTF? That's crazy! How can you not wish for peace in Israel!

She was a Methodist. O_O
 
Watermark said:
I know the feeling. When I encountered other views of Christianity, even when I was leaning agnostic or atheist, I just didn't understand how they thought that way. I was brought up in a totally different environment.
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What is your religious background, if I may ask?

We have a Methodist church in my area that a lot of my friends went to though. But the Methodist churches in the south lean sort of towards where the Southern Baptists are - I believe they are a lot more radical than the mainline church in general.
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Probably Free Methodist. There's a FMC near my house and they are off-the-scale fundamentalist.

I remember reading one of my friend's blog on myspace, and she said that she wished that peace would never happen in Israel, because it was fortold by the prophecy that would be when the world would end. And I was like, WTF? That's crazy! How can you not wish for peace in Israel!

She was a Methodist. O_O
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Haha...I've heard that before. One of my friends didn't want Jesus to come back until she was married. It would seem there are many fundamentalist Christian ladies who feel the same way. Hmm...I wonder why.
 
Watermark said:
You know, I may not like the Catholics, or any Christians for that matter, much, but the evangelicals down here are far, far worse.
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I grew up one of the few methodist in a small farm town of German Catholic Farmers. I have few illusions, after this experience, of how a Hitler could arize in Germany. Though I learned later that they don't represent the whole catholic world, otherwise I wouldn't have married my wife, who is catholic.
 
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