Which religion you belong to?

[TheStinger]

Can anyone tell me what a Babtist and a Munit are?

[Ethelred]

Baptists are Protestant Christians. Mostly they are fundamentlist. There are a LOT of Southern Baptists in the US. A lot of the Creationists in the US are Baptists.

I have never heard of a Munit before.

Maybe this could be the source:

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.



Religious Tolerance didn't have a clue either.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/

But it can help with others.

HEY, I just notice the pole doesn't have the Church of the Sub-Genius. How could that be? Munit but no BOB. Sacrilage.

[Aeson]

It also doesn't have scientology.

[Harovan]

Scientology is not considered to be a religion, at least here in most of Europe, but an economical oriented sect that calls itself "church".

On topic: Atheist, of course. God is dead. Requiescat in Pace.

[Skanky Burns]

I can't believe you are still arguing over the definition of a word.

[TheStinger]

I thought Baptists (I should have read previous threads re: sonics English) were a bit like Anglicans i.e Church of England, and therefore not fundamentalists.

I could be getting them mixed up with a different US religion though.

[Col Bigspear]

Atheist here..

Religion makes no sense to me, i thank my parents for letting me decide instead of forcing a religion on me. My mother and here side of the family are English and Atheists and my father is 1/2 polish. His Parents were catholics. I forget the word for him, he does'nt believe in a religion but believes in a higher being ( anyone know the word?)

[Ethelred]

I am pretty sure The Church of England is Anglican in the US. The US version isn't about to accept Queen Elizebeth as the head of the Church.

[Bosh]

I am pretty sure The Church of England is Anglican in the US.

Episcopalian actually IIRC

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by Ethelred
I am pretty sure The Church of England is Anglican in the US. The US version isn't about to accept Queen Elizebeth as the head of the Church.

I know that, i was saying the name of the anglican church in engalnd is called the church of england.

BTW catholic americans accept a polish bloke in rome as their head

[Sonic]

Munit (or Munist) is some kind of sect which makes people to be part of it wityhout their knowledge. If something of the following happened, you might be in Munit lists:
-Some strange people came to your home and claimed they are from some family association and offered you to re-live your marriege, drink wine, etc. If you done what they told than they puts you on their lists.
-Some man asked all info about you on street, offered you to drink wine, etc. If you done what he said than you are on Munit lists.

Munits are extremely active in Lithuania, where they does things noted above and also picks randomly some people on street (usually sitting on banch), pulls blackboard near them and starts talking them about Munit religion and drawing schemes on that blackboard, etc. This happened for me two times, so I know their religion a bit. It seems it is based on some wine, viticultures, etc. They calls people wine growers or something like that.
However, this sect is all over the world, their leader is Mun (Munna maybe in correct English) and he lives somewhere in Asia.

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by Boshko

Episcopalian actually IIRC

There the ones, They probably dont advertise the fact that they could be considerded Anglicans

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by Sonic
Munit (or Munist) is some kind of sect which makes people to be part of it wityhout their knowledge. If something of the following happened, you might be in Munit lists:
-Some strange people came to your home and claimed they are from some family association and offered you to re-live your marriege, drink wine, etc. If you done what they told than they puts you on their lists.
-Some man asked all info about you on street, offered you to drink wine, etc. If you done what he said than you are on Munit lists.

Munits are extremely active in Lithuania, where they does thinks noted above and also picks randomly some people on street (usually sitting on banch) and starts talking them about Munit god, etc. This happened for me two times, so I know their religion a bit. It seems it is based on some wine, viticultures, etc. They calls people wine growers or something like that.
However, this sect is all over the world, their leader is Mun (Munna maybe in correct English) and he lives somewhere in Asia.

Are we talking moonies here

[Akka]

Originally posted by Ethelred
Oddly enough Infidel actually has specific meaning but it has been coopted by Christians to mean something exactly the opposite of its original meaning. Its a Arab word and is used to refer to ALL non Moslems. If you aren't Moslem your an Infidel even if you are one of the peoples of the Book (Moslems, Jews, and Christians). Apparently this irked the Crusaders and they took to calling Moslems infidels.

Completely wrong.
"infidel" comes from the latin "infidelis" which means "lacking in fidelity", where the "fidelity" was about the "true religion" of the speaker.
Europeans were more prone to use "heretics". "Infidels" is probably a translation of the Muslims' words.

The problem is the two terms are somewhat the reverse of their root words. Agnostic is litterly without god and Atheist is literally without religion yet the actuall definitions are the reverse.

Wrong.
Atheis :
"a" is a greek prefix meaning "without".
"theos" means "god" in greek.
Atheis => "without god"

Agnostic :
"a" same than above.
"gnôstos" means "knowledge" or "knowable".
Agnostic => the one who don't know/can't know.

An atheist is someone who actively believe there is no God.
An agnostic is someone who don't believe, but don't discard the possibility that a god can exist. He says "I can't know for now".

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I can't believe you are still arguing over the definition of a word.

If you are referring to scientology being religious or economical oriented: The difference matters very much. A religion would be protected by the constitution, a economical oriented community can be restricted, or forbidden at all.