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FireDragon76 · Nov 11, 2024

Love365 said:
Could they make Gandhi the patron saint of peaceful protests ?

Many of Gandhi's protests were not peaceful. At least one ended in a major massacre. It is naive to think that advancing social justice won't involve the possibility of violence, usually on the part of the State. Characterizing Gandhi as merely a pacifist also doesn't do justice to his beliefs or tactics, which involved direct confrontation and non-cooperation with injustice.

RileyG · Nov 11, 2024

Love365 said:
Could they make Gandhi the patron saint of peaceful protests ?

I don’t think they have patron saints.

Love365 · May 1, 2025

Do they celebrate the
International Day of Peace ?

FireDragon76 · May 1, 2025

Love365 said:
Do they celebrate the
International Day of Peace ?

It depends on the congregation and/or individual. UU's are congregationalist- every congregation is slightly different in their practices.

Love365 · May 31, 2025

Christians and Buddhists both have nuns.

David Lamb · May 31, 2025

Love365 said:
Christians and Buddhists both have nuns.

Correction: Some denominations have nuns. There are no Baptist nuns, and as far as I know, no Methodist nuns, no Salvation Army nuns, no Congregational nuns........

FireDragon76 · May 31, 2025

David Lamb said:
Correction: Some denominations have nuns. There are no Baptist nuns, and as far as I know, no Methodist nuns, no Salvation Army nuns, no Congregational nuns........

The only western Christian denominations that have formal cenobitic monasticism are Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans.

RileyG · May 31, 2025

David Lamb said:
Correction: Some denominations have nuns. There are no Baptist nuns, and as far as I know, no Methodist nuns, no Salvation Army nuns, no Congregational nuns........

Correct. Nuns are most associated with Catholicism. But there are Eastern Orthodox nuns, some Anglican/episcopal nuns, and some Lutheran nuns.

RileyG · May 31, 2025

Love365 said:
Christians and Buddhists both have nuns.

There are some Jain nuns, as well.

RileyG · May 31, 2025

David Lamb said:
Correction: Some denominations have nuns. There are no Baptist nuns, and as far as I know, no Methodist nuns, no Salvation Army nuns, no Congregational nuns........

I think there is an ecumenical monastery out east that has Methodist and Presbyterian nuns and monks, but they’re incredibly small in number.

FireDragon76 · May 31, 2025

RileyG said:
I think there is an ecumenical monastery out east that has Methodist and Presbyterian nuns and monks, but they’re incredibly small in number.

Early Reformed and Lutheran protestants actually had some women that lived as nuns, particularly in Germany, where the monasteries were never emptied in a thoroughgoing way. Renes Descartes conversed with one such woman, Princess Elisabeth of the Palatinate, who was an abbess at a small Protestant convent in northwest Germany. In her correspondence, she rejected Descartes dualism, because it didn't explain soul-body interactions (echoing some later feminists, perhaps?).

RileyG · May 31, 2025

FireDragon76 said:
Early Reformed and Lutheran protestants actually had some women that lived as nuns, particularly in Germany, where the monasteries were never emptied in a thoroughgoing way. Renes Descartes conversed with one such woman, Princess Elisabeth of the Palatinate, who was an abbess at a small Protestant convent in northwest Germany. In her correspondence, she rejected Descartes dualism, because it didn't explain soul-body interactions (echoing some later feminists, perhaps?).

Yeah, I think I remember reading that somewhere.

David Lamb · Sunday at 10:18 AM

FireDragon76 said:
The only western Christian denominations that have formal cenobitic monasticism are Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans.

That's a new word to me - cenobitic. I had to look it up. Thanks for extending my vocabulary!

FireDragon76 · Sunday at 1:27 PM

David Lamb said:
That's a new word to me - cenobitic. I had to look it up. Thanks for extending my vocabulary!

It comes from the Greek word for "common life". As opposed to heremitic (hermit) or mendicant (beggar) monasticism.

David Lamb · Monday at 1:57 AM

FireDragon76 said:
It comes from the Greek word for "common life". As opposed to heremitic (hermit) or mendicant (beggar) monasticism.

Thanks again.

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