[thechat] Mythology was comics
Warden, Matt
mwarden at mattwarden.com
Wed May 23 20:50:32 CDT 2001
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> >Some can't find a church that satisfies their beliefs... hence,
> >nondenominational Christians.
>
> Hm. On the big Venn diagram of Christians, I'm willing to say that
> there are people who are non-church-going and non-denominational,
> but I still think there's a distinction. See below.
Sure. And many non-church-goers are just lazy or would rather was the
tube. I'm just making the point that they're not all non-church-goers
for that reason.
> >Fwiw, "nondenominational churches" almost seems like an oxymoron
> >to me.
>
> Well, using the definition that I posted a couple of messages ago,
> a denomination is a group of congregations that have a common set
> of beliefs and a legal association. A church is a congregation.
> Therefore, a church can be a Christian church and not affiliated
> with a denomination. A
> non-denominational church.
But then again, a church can also refer to a religion (often
capitilized when used this way, however). We might want to ignore
vocabulary becuase we'll be at this forever ;-)
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mattwarden
mattwarden.com
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