Catholic Charities Mixes Politics with Community Services

[giblets]

It'll be a disaster if the kid turns out to be a homosexual when it's older, but I don't think it should be illegal for religious nutjobs like pentecostals to adopt.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Are you considering all Christians to be "religious nutjobs" or just Pentecostals? And why?

[giblets]

Are you considering all Christians to be "religious nutjobs" or just Pentecostals? And why?

No, not all Christians. Aren't pentecostals the ones who think they speak in tongues?

[DanS]

Pentecostals, among others, including some catholics.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Indeed, Charismatics are in every denomination.

From wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_Christianity

Charismatic Christianity has grown in the last decade. As of 2008, according to Barna surveys, one out of every four Protestant churches in the United States (23%) is a charismatic congregation. A slight majority of all "born-again" Christians (51%) are charismatic. Nearly half of all adults who attend a Protestant church (46%) are charismatic.[3]

And as Dan said, Charismatic Catholics definitely exist:

As of 2006, Pentecostals and charismatic Christians numbered at least 500 million, a quarter of the world's 2 billion Christians.[1] This means that charismatics are the second largest branch of Christianity after the Roman Catholic Church (though the 120 million Catholic Charismatics do not consider themselves separate from Roman Catholicism)[2].

[giblets]

One out of every four Christians is a nutjob? Sounds about right.

[rah]

Sound low to me.

[Imran Siddiqui]

One out of every four Christians is a nutjob? Sounds about right.

Why is glossolalia your line for "nutjob"?

[giblets]

Why is glossolalia your line for "nutjob"?

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[Imran Siddiqui]

So you have no reason?

[giblets]

So you have no reason?

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That was the holy spirit. If you don't understand it, you just don't have enough faith

[Imran Siddiqui]

So basically what I just said?

[giblets]

Saying random babble and then claiming it's the "holy spirit" is just plain crazy. If someone said they're Napoleon, would I need to give a detailed explanation of the reasons why I think they're nuts?

[Fake Boris]

It's just a different take on non-factual statements.

People make non-factual statements all the time, mostly about aesthetics and morality.

[Dr Strangelove]

Dr. Strangelove:

A link would be grand to prove your assertion....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/7264318.stm

Try that, if it doesn't work go to the original article and scroll down to the end where you'll find a section labelled "More on This Story"

For some reason url's here aren't being automatically hyper-linked, but you should be able to copy that address.