Reged: 05/22/03
Posts: 3206
Loc: USA, Southern California
Terri, I agree with you...religion and politics is just not something I talk about openly about with people I don't know well.
Growing up I had a very worldly mother who made me go to all the various houses of worship with my little girl friends who had various religious beliefs. Through that exercise she taught me respect for all the various religions in the US. A lot of us fail to realize that Christianity is still a small religion compared to the actual numbers of people who worship other faiths, yet all are related in their basic premise.
Now about being Baptist. I'm not but I married one. Do any of you Baptists know the difference between a Northern Baptist and a Southern Baptist?
A Northern Baptist says "there ain't no hell", and a Southern Baptist says, "to hell, there ain't!" LOL
Even my devote Southern Baptist mother-in-law, now 98 years young howled over that one and even told it to her pastor!!!!