quote:Originally posted by lucidnightmare Protestants in America are about the most unmystical religious people on earth.
So do you disagree with this quote?
quote:the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians....
I'm talking about mysticism, the direct experience, active learning or searching rather than following books and preachers. There is a fear of it that it is all occult (which is a negative term to them) and deceptions. Protestants are more legalistic than intuitive. Even more than Catholics and eastern orthodox.
"I'm a human being, I exist... and if I speak one thought aloud, that thought lives..."
"Delusions... to make you think you have a strength, when you have no strength at all!!! You are nothing, but spindly limbs and a dream, and The State has no use for your kind!!!!"
quote:Originally posted by lucidnightmare I'm talking about mysticism, the direct experience, active learning or searching rather than following books and preachers. There is a fear of it that it is all occult (which is a negative term to them) and deceptions. Protestants are more legalistic than intuitive. Even more than Catholics and eastern orthodox.
Very well, but I still don't know what your point is in relation to the quote, which says that liberal protestants are more into the supernatural than evangelicals. Mysticism is filed under supernatural, afaIk.
quote:Originally posted by retroguy_fawkes Also unicorns, wizards, witches, dragons, talking burning bushes, a box that turns people into dust, curses, and all of the human race from two people with no inbreeding.
1. It's got a parrot
2. Children pretending to play guitar
3. Falsetto harmonies
4. 3 guys, 1 mic
5. Foosball
6. Double keyboard
7. Pinball
8. Male to female ratio greater than 8:1
9. Video games
10. 10+ guitars
11. Ethnic percussion instruments/no ethnic percussionists
12. Rhythmic dance-snapping
13. The guy from Lethal Weapon