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The average American professing Christian is a pretty big group of people that hardly think the same. And for that matter why does it have to be an American professing Christian? One thing that always gets me is many American protestants seem to be rather clueless as to Christianity as a...

In general the pastors are usually looking for an agreement on doctrine, not just the real presence before they want to give communion. Some LCMS pastors in practice don't do this and give communion to any baptized Christian. You would likely have a hard time with many pastors in the LCMS as...

So what if my Jesus is a mass murderer who likes child sacrifice and hates everyone. Am I a Christian? You can't just change everything about Jesus, who he is, and what he believes in and still get the title of Christian from people who really are Christians and believe in the Jesus presented...

Most Christians I know don't recognize LDS as being Christian.

Is she an adult? It is the position of your church that asking the father to date is necessary? (If it is I would suggest a different church.) If she's an adult and that isn't the position of the church and he got mad I would simply reply that I had no intention to offend, however since...

Asking for permission from their parents to date someone who is an adult is really really stupid. How in the world can one be a capable adult when they are not treated as though they are capable of deciding who to spend their time with?? And if your son or daughter as an adult is not capable...

Yes I'm sure God just wants people to do just enough to be saved. Why would he care if you go to a church that teaches heresies and believe in heresies yourself just as long as you are having more fun then at the church that teaches correctly. This is where my signature brings wisdom. "Many...

Actually the thing about Walt Disney is just a rumor. He was cremated and had his ashes interred.

I suppose you should hold off on confirmation, but can I ask what it is you disagree with in Lutheran theology. Because here is the thing, the things you mention being uneasy about mostly baptism and confession are beliefs that are fairly common with Catholic theology. You realize that...

I would support that law too. The problem is that the parties who disagreed with his speech demanded he be fired. And that's something I've always hated in our political system. We've decided that when we don't like what you say to just go straight for the groin and cut off a person's...

There wasn't, but I'm guessing that most people viewed that sort of thing pretty negatively and corporations didn't want to get people ticked off at them. There was you know a time when people believed in other people's right to say stuff they disagreed with and typically defended that right...

I'm waiting for McDonald's to fire an employee for views on the minimum wage that are offensive to their profit margin. Liberals will freak out, conservatives will support McDonald's and then it will be all over and your employer will own your speech. This is, like it or not where this is...

It doesn't matter how much they respect them. They operate themselves as a church but do not perform sacraments. If they just want to be an organization of Christians who try to do good works, they should just be that. But they operate themselves as a church, which is where my objection...

Ehh he was wrong it happens. When people try to predict the future they often come up pretty wrong on a lot of things. Flying cars often get predicted but that's not happened. (And there is a reason as flying takes more energy then just rolling on the ground.) Visionaries predicted the...

What?? I'm not typically a huge supporter of the death penalty. I think it should be used in more limited circumstances. But on this I can say that I take pride that this man was put to death in my home state. I pray he somehow received God's mercy, but the death penalty here was well deserved.

I think they have the right to do it, however Michie is right about one thing. If you are hiring these guys to be who they are, then you can't act all surprised when they have views (and express those views) that a lot of other people disagree with and find offensive. I myself have never...

The Catholic Church's views on salvation are IMO fairly complex, so it's sort of a waste of time to try and figure out if you are saved based on their teachings. I can't figure out if I'm saved based on their teachings being confessional Lutheran in belief, however my best guess from what I've...

You can't allow yourself to believe in your own personal belief of "God wants me in Africa" over the clear words of scripture that tell you that you should not leave your husband. I think personally that people make too much of a big deal and think far too much about what God wants them to do...

I would agree with you for the most part that it's socially constructed. However under our current social construction of race they would not be considered to be white as our current social construction of race indicates white as being someone who's ancestry is almost entirely European in...