Eastern Christianity Flowchart: [link]
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 37: You take the killing for granted.
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tommyrot - Sep 12, 2007 12:32:30 pm PDT #5294 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
flea - Sep 12, 2007 12:33:20 pm PDT #5295 of 10001
information libertarian
I believe there is a Serbian Orthodox church.
Steph L. - Sep 12, 2007 12:34:11 pm PDT #5296 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That's a lot of Orthodox churches.
I have a huge gap in my knowledge base where "churches, Orthodox" should be.
Scrappy - Sep 12, 2007 12:39:34 pm PDT #5297 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I grew up Episcopalian, which was the most boring white bread denomination ever until recently, when the church ordained a gay Bishop and a bunch of parishes seceded. Now, according to my mom, churches are divided into two categories,--"Good" churches (ones who accept gay marriage and clergy) and "those others we don't like anymore." When we drive by an Episcopal chuch, she tries to figure out from the signage whether they are good or not.
JZ - Sep 12, 2007 12:45:13 pm PDT #5298 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Armenian Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox, too. And all the Orthodox churches are, theoretically, the same big church. I have an Armenian O. friend who recently moved to Santa Cruz and found herself in a really uncomfortable, ingrown little parish, so she's looking at nearby Greek and Russian and Serbian churches, hoping to find someplace that doesn't give her hives.
DawnK - Sep 12, 2007 12:58:13 pm PDT #5299 of 10001
giraffe mode
Ha Robin! My mom does the exact same thing... so funny!
Burrell - Sep 12, 2007 1:07:52 pm PDT #5300 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
One of the main reasons I love buffistas is conversations like this one. I keep reading and think "but what about..." and then someone else posts that. (Short story, I have nothing to add, but I am pleased to be here.)
JZ - Sep 12, 2007 1:13:18 pm PDT #5301 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Aw, Robin, if I didn't already think your mom was aces just because she brought you into the world, I'd have to now for sure.
If we ever moved away from the Bay Area and my current lefty crunchy parish, I might just end up in one of those good Episcopal churches.
vw bug - Sep 12, 2007 1:15:01 pm PDT #5302 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Ok. Shutting down my computer and really going home. I meant to be on campus for about 30 minutes today. Instead I've been here for, oh, 5 1/2 hours. Oops. Well, at least I've gotten work done. And eaten. And played.
Going home. Really.
meara - Sep 12, 2007 1:27:17 pm PDT #5303 of 10001
What always gets me is when you see a convocation of bishops and there are some that look all funky and it turns out they're some weird sect of Catholics?
In my religious background world (and I'm not saying this is right or wrong), Christian and Catholic are different--Christian means "born again" or "saved" or whatever, and Catholic is separate from that. Just like Lutheran would be separate, as well.
Um....wait, why are Lutherans not? They're Protestant! WTF? Are Prebyterians? Methodists? Baptists? How do you decide what counts?
After the funeral I went to last week, I was thinking of hitting up some gay Catholic mass in Seattle, but found out their Dignity chapter just has "prayer service" once a month. Not mass. Boo! Apparently the Catholic churches in Seattle are pretty darn gay-accepting, but...that wasn't my point!