ext_12482 ([identity profile] hobbitbabe.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rivka 2009-03-23 04:09 pm (UTC)

This is selling Christians short; there are ranges of belief within Christian churches as well. This would totally get me off-topic, too. Because I believe it and I think it's important. I grew up in a relatively-Liberal Baptist church. I didn't realize when I was a kid how much other people's beliefs there varied from my parents', because they didn't tend to celebrate that or to bring it up except when we had weird Sunday School teachers or when people were on a faith-healing kick.

As an adult, I've been in an American Baptist congregation and several United Church of Canada churches. All of them acknowledged and celebrated that people found their way to those churches often by rejecting more rigid traditions, and people were more comfortable talking about their personal beliefs and customs. I've been to Baptist Sunday School with people who believed in reincarnation and were matter-of-factly open about it, for example.

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