Google| Subject | Re: OT:Christianity |
| From | Chief General Bagronk |
| Date | 2002-04-30 01:00 (2002-04-30 01:00) |
| Message-ID | <3ccdd072_1@news.arcor-ip.de> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien,rec.arts.books.tolkien |
| Follows | AC |
| Followups | David Sulger (6h & 57m) |
"AC" <spam@nospam.com>schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3ccdb604.128882292@news2.randori.com...
ACDifficult to answer for me, who can only watch Christianity from the outside, as I left the Catholic church some years ago. Don't want to insult any Catholics, but it always seemed to me that the only difference between the Catholic church and various sects, like JW, is just... time. Perhaps that's why JW's appear so "medieval" for us... because we know povs like "everyone else is doomed" from the medieval and inquisitional Catholic church. Only in the last few centuries - or even decades - these views have been eroded (though slower and with more contradictions than I could stand). Don't forget that when Christianity - then still undivided - started spreading round the Roman Empire, they were exactly what JW are today: a sect. And that's a heavy burden they are carrying until today.
So what exactly makes Jehovah's Witnesses not Christians? Or to put it another way, what defines whether a specific church is a Christian church?
ChGen Bagronk
2002-03-30-
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