[Spridgets] Seperation of Church and State

[Kirk Hargreaves]

Snake handlers?  Last chapter of Mark's Gospel. .  but not found in two of
the ancient manuscripts. .  .sooooooo?  Might have been added by a snake
handling Scribe?

Kirk

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Jim Johnson <bmwwxman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't forget the snake handlers...   KInda like Spridget people....  ;-)
>
> Cheers!!
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It was a colony in Rhode Island, as my memory serves me, that opened up
>> the
>> new country, our country, to the Baptists and then following, other
>> religions.
>>
>> The Baptists were known as "Anabaptist's" to the Church of England as they
>> did not support baptism by way of sprinkling water on infants, or children
>> who were, in their opinion too young to make decisions for themselves, but
>> rather felt that baptism was a personal choice to be entertained by those
>> old enough to make the decision on a personal volitional basis.
>>
>> "Anabaptist" was a derogatory term meaning "against baptism". .  against
>> the
>> method of baptism, aspersion, as practiced by the Church of England. It
>> was
>> later shortened to Baptist.
>>
>> Side note:
>>
>> There are over 150 different types of Baptist churches in the United
>> States.  Everything from a small group known as "Two Seed in the Pod
>> Predestination Baptists" to "7th Day Baptists" who like the 7th Day
>> Adventist Church worship on Saturday.  Basically, they all are more
>> similar
>> than dissimilar in their theology.  Southern Baptists make up half of the
>> Baptist churches in the US.
>>
>> Kirk
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:56 PM, John Innis <jdinnis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Actually it was intended to prevent the government from establishing
>> > ANY religion as the official religion of the United States.  This was
>> > done to prevent any particular group from being discriminated against
>> > on the basis of religion.  Discrimination is why the puritans cane to
>> > America in the first place, to escape persecution from the Church of
>> > England.  But letters written at the time also show that our founding
>> > fathers wanted to make America a place welcoming to those of the
>> > Jewish faith.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <
>> khargreaves2 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Wasn't the separation of church and state designed to "Protect the
>> people
>> > > from the state.  . not to protect the state from the people?"
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Kirk
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