Conclave

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


Actually the Baptists were founded in Massachusetts and were forced to flee to Rhode Island to escape persecution by the Puritan churches in the Bay colony. The Baptists objected to the enslavement of the native americans.

Uhh, there were Baptists on mainland Europe and in Elizabethan, Jacobean and Carolingian England. Before the colonization of the Eastern seaboard of North America by other Separatist groups and Puritans.

[Alexander's Horse]

yeah - thats what I thought too

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
yeah - thats what I thought too

How synchronous of you.

(David Blaine mode):

'Vot are you sinking off, now ?'

[Alexander's Horse]

Anabaptists and the holy thong

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Anabaptists and the holy thong

Egads, sir !


I was thinking of the Anabaptists and the Sack of Munster ! Although there's no record of the holy thong cradling the sack...

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Uhh, there were Baptists on mainland Europe and in Elizabethan, Jacobean and Carolingian England. Before the colonization of the Eastern seaboard of North America by other Separatist groups and Puritans.

The Baptist churches of the United States were originally founded by Roger Williams, a Massachusetts preacher who protested a number of policies of the Church of Christ, the official church of the Massachusetts colony. He took a group of followers a founded his own colony, Rhode Island.

There are churches in the US founded by European Anabaptists. The Church of the Bretheran comes to my mind. It is the descendant of the Moravian church. The major Baptist denominations in the US though are actually derived from Roger William's group.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Egads, sir !


I was thinking of the Anabaptists and the Sack of Munster ! Although there's no record of the holy thong cradling the sack...

I can't help but think of the Life of Brian when I think of Anabaptists.

[Brent]

You forget about John the baptist! For that matter, even Adam was baptized... And what do you think the Flood was anyway?

[KrazyHorse]

wtf are you on about?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Brent
And what do you think the Flood was anyway?

A highly fictionalized myth that drew inspiration from Sumerian (and other cultures) tales about the flooding of the Black Sea basin c. 8,000 BC.

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
There are churches in the US founded by European Anabaptists. The Church of the Bretheran comes to my mind. It is the descendant of the Moravian church.

Yeah, the Mennonites are another such group that exists in the US, as are the Hutterites. They tend to be very conservative, pacifistic groups. I went to a Mennonite church during my youth.

[Alexander's Horse]

*cough* you freak

[Dr Strangelove]

Says the newly appointed Cardinal de Sade himself!

[Alexander's Horse]

Oh yes scoff now - just wait until we inquire into your beliefs about the eucharist

[Dis]

what's the deal with this black/white smoke?

couldn't they use use a telephone to say they have selected a new pope?

It's more environmentally friendly.