opebo vs. religion

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'd vote for opebo easily. Religion divides people, kills and destroys.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

I'd vote for opebo easily. Religion divides people, kills and destroys.

But... but... what about Christ?!

Ha, I knew you prefer opebo to Christianity.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'd vote for opebo easily. Religion divides people, kills and destroys.

But... but... what about Christ?!

Christ saves, religion destroys. People should strive to follow Jesus Christ, not religion.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

I'd vote for opebo easily. Religion divides people, kills and destroys.

But... but... what about Christ?!

Christ saves, religion destroys. People should strive to follow Jesus Christ, not religion.

Christianity isn't a religion now, eh?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's why a lot of people in my Christian tradition refuse to call themselves Christian. Some of my Facebook friends have their religious views listed as "Loving Jesus" or "Christ Follower".

[Free Palestine]

Well, children are probably safer around Catholic priests than they are around opebo.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Religion calls for service to a deity higher than that of man. Opebo calls for prostitutes. Take your pick.

[Yelnoc]

That's why a lot of people in my Christian tradition refuse to call themselves Christian. Some of my Facebook friends have their religious views listed as "Loving Jesus" or "Christ Follower".

What's wrong with calling oneself a Christian?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's why a lot of people in my Christian tradition refuse to call themselves Christian. Some of my Facebook friends have their religious views listed as "Loving Jesus" or "Christ Follower".

What's wrong with calling oneself a Christian?

It has negative connotations/is not "cool". Please note I don't do this, just that I know plenty of people who do. It kind of ties into the same reason they eschew denominations.

[Free Palestine]

That's why a lot of people in my Christian tradition refuse to call themselves Christian. Some of my Facebook friends have their religious views listed as "Loving Jesus" or "Christ Follower".

What's wrong with calling oneself a Christian?

Too mainstream.

[TJ in Oregon]

That's why a lot of people in my Christian tradition...

BRTD, how can you call your group a Christian "tradition"? I could understand "denomination" or "church" or "movement" or "group" or "sect", but "tradition"? How is it a "tradition"?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's why a lot of people in my Christian tradition...

BRTD, how can you call your group a Christian "tradition"? I could understand "denomination" or "church" or "movement" or "group" or "sect", but "tradition"? How is it a "tradition"?

I'm using a somewhat archaic use of the word, I've heard references to things like "mainline Protestant tradition" and "evangelical Protestant tradition", and we aren't really mainline or evangelical. It would best be summarized as related to the Emerging church: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_church

The rest don't work very well. We aren't a denomination and there's no real organization, church obviously doesn't work either unless referring to a specific church, movement kind of works except for the fact that no one really can agree on what constitutes it and many people lumped in don't like others lumped in (Mark Driscoll for example is often cited as such an example of this type of Christianity but I loathe the guy and I know the leadership of progressive church plant group feel the same way, plus Driscoll spends a lot of time bashing other emergent theologians), it's kind of like "emo" in that sense actually. Group therefore suffers from the same issue. Sect is even more specific.