In Reply to: Re: Is The Family an extension of the American Culture? posted by Peace (not Mir from NDN) on October 18, 2008 at 13:04:56:
"Once out of a church building, the attitudes of fellow parishioners change. Unless you happen to be one of the officers of the church, all they have is a look and maybe a smile but most of the time it is the same attitude that one finds in any other event such as a movie, or in the shopping mall. Being inside of the church makes church goers behave one way but their attitude changes dramatically as soon as they walk out. Maybe this is understandable, but it is quite and impressive change nevertheless."
The sweeping statement you make here is based on what? How much actual contact and experience do you have with parishioners inside and outside the church building. IMO this sounds like it is something I heard in TF. "Church people are like this and this is the mold they need to be put in." Until I became involved in church and with people in the church I had the same slanted attitude as I had from TF. I would like to ask, "What is the proper way for a Christian, especillay an American Christian to talk and behave once he leaves the church building?" What are the rules and who makes the rules? I would agree in many circumstances Christians do not always display a Christian attitude, but that has little to do with being an American. It has to do with how yielded one is to the Holy Spirit and being a Contagious Christian as God calls us to be.
As I like to tell people when I first came to the church I attend it was a perfect church, but I came in and messed it up!