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Oh my, my CofC was kinda up north...far too civilized to have folksy stuff...all I really remember is the frantic pleading from the pulpit to come forward and get baptized, you know, that God, too, was pleading with near tears in His own eyes (kinda like He was down on His hands and knees just HOPING that you'd make a decision for Him)....also the sad, tearful horror of other groups perishing without going into the watery grave of baptism....oh, yes, and I do remember hearing a comment once that "those Catholics think they own everything"....
SolaDude wrote:Oh my, my CofC was kinda up north...far too civilized to have folksy stuff...all I really remember is the frantic pleading from the pulpit to come forward and get baptized, you know, that God, too, was pleading with near tears in His own eyes (kinda like He was down on His hands and knees just HOPING that you'd make a decision for Him)....also the sad, tearful horror of other groups perishing without going into the watery grave of baptism....oh, yes, and I do remember hearing a comment once that "those Catholics think they own everything"....
Ah.....the northern brethren missed out on the richness of the south!! At least you had some preacher drama in the pulpit.
I do remember hearing something about the cath-licks "drinking like fish".
I haven't heard any of the phrases Ivy mentions here in Alabama.
They do bash on the Catholics, 7th Day Adventists, and Baptists on a daily basis. I've been keeping track this month. Every single class and service, someone has bashed some other denomination. The Catholics are a common target. The way they talk about Catholics, you'd think Catholics were the spawn of Satan.
flawed wrote:
And yet, aren’t they the very people who brought us the Bible?
The coC answer to that is that the NT canon was pretty much settled and floating around in the 300's (though I would argue that it was still the Catholics at that time, because they'd already moved to the Bishop/elder structure by then... not sure when they started the papacy). The coC will also say that the Catholics have books not in our Bibles.
But I can assure you, there weren't any coC people involved in the putting together of the Bible, nor the many translations we use today, including the coC approved ones. I guess they'd say that God sometimes uses evil people for his purposes?
If someone's kids were wild, it would be "because their mother worked". (We're talking late 1950s to early 1970s here). This "wisdom" gradually went away as
women started working more routinely outside the home.
Ivy wrote:If someone's kids were wild, it would be "because their mother worked". (We're talking late 1950s to early 1970s here). This "wisdom" gradually went away as
women started working more routinely outside the home.
Actually, Ivy, it was because their mother was trying to make the right coffee:
Shrubbery wrote:I haven't heard any of the phrases Ivy mentions here in Alabama.
They do bash on the Catholics, 7th Day Adventists, and Baptists on a daily basis. I've been keeping track this month. Every single class and service, someone has bashed some other denomination. The Catholics are a common target. The way they talk about Catholics, you'd think Catholics were the spawn of Satan.
Texas and Alabama are a little different but one thing that is similar, THE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL! I am Orthodox now, not RC, and my own mother used that phrase to describe me one time. She has since apologized but the whole Catholic bashing is quite universal. Orthodox resemble the RC in appearance and to a staunch CoC'er is all the same and fair game unless the baptist are making headlines.
