<p>Yes, I agree. I dont think its a good idea for a particular religion to split up into sects since it causes further violence and weakens religious unity. The Jewish people seems more united than Muslims as Christians as a whole.</p>
<p>^ yeah they do. I think christianity in particular suffers because there's so many different sects, and most of them have extremely minor differences</p>
<p>^^I agree, we, Christians, have split way to many times into different denominations over trival differences instead of trying to work them out.</p>
<p>I'm Christian - to be more exact, Anglican a.k.a. Church of England or Episcopalian (which is the American autocephalous version post the US War of Independence). To be even more exact, I'm Anglo-Catholic, a "high church" part of the Anglican Communion influenced by the Oxford Movement in the mid-1800s. (It's interesting being a part of the Protestant church that uses Latin and incense and is liberal at the same time.)</p>
<p>I'm Christian. Catholic to be exact. I'd like to follow up on one of the questions that was asked earlier in this thread that I thought was a great question. It mentioned if your faith and role as a Christian influences your college choices. For example, would you choose a Catholic college such as Notre Dame over another college because it is a religious school?</p>
<p>medieval Catholics? wass that?</p>
<p>That more Christians are embracing Judaism as time goes by? I mean, when I ask a religious Christian what sect be belongs to, he claims "I'm half Jew, half Christisn." I know there are many more like him. Its interesting since early Christianity was intolerant towards Jews (ex Crusades, Bubonic Plague etc). </p>
<p>I am Muslim btw, so forgive me if I am mistaken.</p>
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<p>I am Episcopalian, too. I love it! I attend a broad church, though I can't wait to find a high church in college. It IS interesting being a Protestant who is heavily influenced by Catholicism--in my friends' discussions, I usually end up defending Catholic ideas of transubstanation, actually having kneelers in pews, the use of incense, etc., than I do the more Protestant ideas.</p>
<p>I am pretty progessive, and I don't think religion would influence my choice in a school. I definitely wouldn't attend a Baptist school or a school like Wheaton, just because I disagree so strongly with many of their stances (especially living in the South and getting to see the Southern Baptist Convention's influence everywhere). No offense to Baptists here of course--it's the leadership I have issues with, not the nice, church-going, loving individuals.</p>
<p>I believe in God, but do not adhere to a particular religion. Would that make me secular? also im really liberal, like on social issues particularly. I go to Catholic school though, so plenty familiar with my hail mary and our father, etc.</p>
<p>most christians are "christians"</p>
<p>I'm a Christian. I was baptized in the Greek Orthodox church, but I don't feel really connected to it. I've learned more about God from going to two weeks of christian camp every summer for 5 years than from my church. It's weird that way, and kind of complicated. </p>
<p>As for university, faith isn't influencing my decision very much because it is such a personal thing for me - I haven't ever gone to a religious school. I know that I'll find an outlet wherever I go, be it a church to go to or a youth group or something else.</p>
<p>I am a very conservative Baptist.</p>
<p>If yes, can anybody give me links to the signs before the day of judgement? Thanks.</p>
<p>Business_freak I'm sorta what you were talking about "half jew, half christian" but usually when people say that they are talking about heritage. I was Christian for most of my life, but I've switched off that because I've found that Jesus is amazing, but extremely miss understood (Like EXTREMELY). By the same token I find that a lot Jewish practices are well... rather useless. One thing though, I don't understand the actual worshipping of God in any religion. Some people make it out to be that one should live your life worshipping God, but if God wanted that, wouldn't that be sort of hypocritical of him/her? I love God and I try to be a good person, and I that's all that's really necessary. I think physical worship is used in place of the metaphorical worship which is love (God is love right?) and good will. However, if I were to identify with a single church it would be Presbyterian U.S.A., merely for the fact that I've gone to it since 3rd grade, and my pastor always seems open to discuss different views and ideas. My main issue with any religion is how over-zealous people become about it, and then they miss the point. In turn, people outside those religions become pushed away because they think that is the religion, when in fact it is a great misinterpretation of the religion.</p>
<p>/seriousness.</p>
<p>I've grown up in a Christian-like home. My older relatives go to church often but my parents never did. My parents would always send my brother and I to church with our grandma but they never went. I put an end to that when I was around 8 or 9 years old. I'm 22 now and I have been to church probably 5 times since then. I never felt any good spiritual presence in church. All I felt was BOREDOM. Worshipping God is supposed to be spiritually and emotionally uplifting, and church has been the complete opposite of that for me.</p>
<p>Thats sorta how I feel. It just seems like a lot of people are faking it because they think Church goer = good person.</p>
<p>As with any institution, you have good members and bad members. I know people who are truly devout and put a lot of time and effort into keeping their church strong. I also know people who only go to church for a few hours on Sunday and do no other religious activities. This is far from being a true Christian but it is enough to keep a good social reputation among church members.</p>
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...I don't get it?</p>
<p>moi. it's nice to find a religious niche on CC.</p>
<p>I'm Christian!</p>
<p>JimmyEatWorld711 - I think he/she just means, believes in Christ, which is an oversimplification of the definition, but that's the general thing. If you have, just anyone who goes to church, you get into groups who do but may not believe in the Savior and aren't defined as Christians.</p>