Google| Subject | Re: OT:Christianity |
| From | David Sulger |
| Date | 2002-04-30 07:57 (2002-04-29 22:57) |
| Message-ID | <3ac4908.0204292157.41037b9d@posting.google.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien,rec.arts.books.tolkien |
| Follows | Chief General Bagronk |
| Followups | Flame of the West (2h & 20m) > David Sulger |
"Chief General Bagronk" <vr-stefanien@arcor.de>wrote in message news:<3ccdd072_1@news.arcor-ip.de>...
Chief General BagronkNot exactly. Jehovah's Witnesses are a result of American religious freedom. Over the last century, a lot of ultra-conservative evangelical Christian groups have popped up all over the country in the wake of various religious revivals. The Jehovah's Witnesses are one of the more well-known sects, probably because of their damn annoying proselytization practices.
"AC" <spam@nospam.com>schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3ccdb604.128882292@news2.randori.com...ACChief General Bagronk
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?
Difficult 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).
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