Christian

[Paul M. Johnson]

Rick Kennerly, funny, doesn't sound Jewish.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Kennerly" <rick at MOUSEHERDER.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Christian


> :of his particular sect were Christians, while members of other
> :nominally Christian sects were hypocrites.
> :
> :Of course, I'm sure we've all been raised in the One True Faith.
> :
>
> OTOH, I've always thought the reason we never had full fledged holy wars
> inside the US (at least not like in the Middle East and parts of Asia) was
> precisely because we managed to avoid any group cornering the market as
the
> guardian of the One True Faith.  In this country, instead of fighting over
> dogma and doctrine, if a person disagrees with the tenets of a particular
> religion or the practices of a particular faith, he just breaks off and
> starts his own church.
>
> Being raised in the South of a Reform Synagogue Jewish father and a snake
> handlin, poison drinkin' Pentecostal-sect mother, I had some very full and
> interesting weekends as a kid.  And I remember some really weird breakaway
> religious groups when I was growing up.
>
> Rick Kennerly
>