I was raised Southern Baptist. Nobody ever, ever, ever told us we couldn’t dance, or that it was a sinful thing. We would have regarded someone who told us so as a religious nut.

“I know for a fact that Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY was until the last year or so a Southern Baptist affiliated college and they banned smoking on campus (for women) up until sometime in the 60s and they banned dancing on campus until sometime I believe in the ’90s.”

As at Baylor, formal dance functions were banned on-campus primarily for traditional reasons, not because Southern Baptists have a religious conviction against dancing itself. Dancing itself was permitted.

“When the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he was angry and beat her with his staff. Then the LORD opened the asses mouth, and she said to Balaam, ‘What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?’” (Numbers 22:27-28, NIV).

One would assume that most of the folks reading at FiredogLake would be immune, or have the appropriate filtering mechanism for:

Can you imagine what he’d do to the Muslim Obama?

I am not an Obama supporter, and at the risk of being humorless, if we don’t want the WaPo to perpetuate or feed rumors, maybe we shouldn’t engage in this kind of humor? Or, at least I assume it was done in humor.

“I wasn’t there when he did it, so how he did it, I don’t know,” Huckabee said.”That’s an irrelevant question to ask me – I’m happy to answer what I believe, but what I believe is not what’s going to be taught in 50 different states,” Huckabee said. “Education is a state function. The more state it is, and the less federal it is, the better off we are.”

So Mitt could simply say he wasn’t there at the Creation, and it’s up to the States what to teach about this issue ;-)

Unuh, that’s W, every clear-thinking apocalyptic knows that. ;-)

Here’s a list to get him started.

http://www.baptistpillar.com/I…..atholicism

Because the Mormon Church is a recent creation, it seems pretty strange to non-mormons. Christianity probably seemed pretty strange at a similar point in its history.

I dunno: Mormonism seems way weirder than DVD players, the Internet and microwaveable popcorn, all of which have been around a lot less long.

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Solitary voice: I’m not

As I’ve always understood it, the doctrine is not intended to be understood as a positive statement. It’s a verbal formula which rules out a number of discarded answers to the question of how the persons of the godhead are related, while leaving the final resolution open.

In particular, the “only begotten son” thing is an assertion that rejects the notion that ordinary humans can’t become “sons of god” with all the rights and privileges appertaining thereto; and also rejects the notion that once they do, they will be on a par with Jesus. That leaves space for a variety of positive characterizations, (potentially including the Arian position of Jehovah’s Witnesses) without endorsing any of them.