Re: [RC] Atheist and Agnostic Baptists? Catholics? Presbyterians? Lutherans?

[David R. Block]

Title: ORourke54.htm

Well now Ernie, I would not have considered your list as rituals, either. Haven't had a church potluck at the current Baptist church for almost 17 years now... David "There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head."--P. J. O'Rourke On 7/5/2013 5:46 PM, Dr. Ernest Prabhakar wrote: Hi Billy, On Jul 4, 2013, at 1:47 PM, bil...@aol.com wrote: Otherwise Baptists are anti-ritual. Huh? I concede that Baptists are anti-*liturgical.* But from my times hanging out with Baptists, they *loved* rituals: - the altar calls - choir rehearsal - summer camps - church potlucks - familiar hymns You seem to have a narrow definition of ritual, which misses the point of the article. If anything, the atheists in the article appear more drawn to the social rituals I'm taking about rather than the theological rituals Baptists claim to be against. -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org   --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radicalcentrism+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.