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What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:05 pm
by saxitoxin
What's the craziest U.S. based religion? Here's a comparison I copy/pasted from adher7nts.org -
Amish (Old Order)
- Famous Members: ?
- Sex: Allowed; Dancing: Allowed; Blood Transfusions: Allowed; Voting: Allowed
- Current Worldwide Membership: 300,000
- Beliefs: Believe using machinery or electricity is covered by the Bible's prohibition on arrogance.
Assemblies of God
- Famous Members: John Ashcroft, Elvis Presley, Jonas Bros.
- Sex: Allowed; Dancing: Prohibited; Blood Transfusions: Allowed; Voting: Allowed
- Current Worldwide Membership: 63 million
- Beliefs: Believe the Holy Spirit can posses the human body and speak through it in an angelic language ("tongues").
Jehovah's Witnesses
- Famous Members: Venus Williams, Michael Jackson, Marlon Wayans
- Sex: Allowed; Dancing: Allowed; Blood Transfusions: Prohibited; Voting: Prohibited
- Current Worldwide Membership: 8 million
- Beliefs: Believe the world is about to end at any moment and only 144,000 people will be saved.
Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
- Famous Members: Mitt Romney, Donny Osmond, Orson Scott Card
- Sex: Required/Encouraged; Dancing: Allowed; Blood Transfusions: Allowed; Voting: Allowed
- Current Worldwide Membership: 15 million
- Beliefs: Believe God used to be a human being who lived on a planet in a different solar system but evolved into a divine being who sent the ghost of John the Baptist to New York in the 1820s to speak to Joseph Smith.
Nation of Islam
- Famous Members: Snoop Dogg, Malcolm X
- Sex: Allowed; Dancing: Allowed; Blood Transfusions: Allowed; Voting: Allowed
- Current Worldwide Membership: 50,000
- Beliefs: Believe Wallace Muhammed of Detroit, Michigan is the Messiah.
Shakers (United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing)
- Famous Members: ?
- Sex: Prohibited; Dancing: Required / Encouraged; Blood Transfusions: Allowed; Voting: Allowed
- Current Worldwide Membership: 4
- Beliefs: Believe they receive messages from God while dancing; men and women should be equal in church affairs.
Re: If you had to join a U.S.-based church, which would you?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:33 pm
by Symmetry
TLDR version- Saxi bought some furniture, it broke, can't get a refund.
Re: If you had to join a U.S.-based church, which would you?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:37 pm
by saxitoxin
Symmetry wrote:TLDR version- Saxi bought some furniture, it broke, can't get a refund.
SORRY WE DONT ALL GET THE 15% EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT AT IKEA LIKE YOU MR HOT STUFF
Re: If you had to join a U.S.-based church, which would you?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:49 pm
by Symmetry
saxitoxin wrote:Symmetry wrote:TLDR version- Saxi bought some furniture, it broke, can't get a refund.
SORRY WE DONT ALL GET THE 15% EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT AT IKEA LIKE YOU MR HOT STUFF
I get the discount because I got the loyalty card. I don't get why you're constantly suggesting that I work there.
I'm not even all that loyal.
Re: If you had to join a U.S.-based church, which would you?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:55 pm
by saxitoxin
Symmetry wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Symmetry wrote:TLDR version- Saxi bought some furniture, it broke, can't get a refund.
SORRY WE DONT ALL GET THE 15% EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT AT IKEA LIKE YOU MR HOT STUFF
I get the discount because I got the loyalty card. I don't get why you're constantly suggesting that I work there.
I'm not even all that loyal.
Typical elitist old boy networks; George Bush and Skull & Bones, Symmetry and the IKEA Loyalty Club, etc.
Re: If you had to join a U.S.-based church, which would you?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 5:02 pm
by Symmetry
saxitoxin wrote:Symmetry wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Symmetry wrote:TLDR version- Saxi bought some furniture, it broke, can't get a refund.
SORRY WE DONT ALL GET THE 15% EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT AT IKEA LIKE YOU MR HOT STUFF
I get the discount because I got the loyalty card. I don't get why you're constantly suggesting that I work there.
I'm not even all that loyal.
Typical elitist old boy networks; George Bush and Skull & Bones, Symmetry and the IKEA Loyalty Club, etc.
They lost my loyalty when they discontinued the Billy bookshelf. Plus the meatballs were really overrated.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:46 pm
by waauw
Westboro baptist church.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:10 pm
by jgordon1111
waauw wrote:Westboro baptist church.
Yep prime example of a cult passing as a accepted Christian religion
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 9:12 pm
by TA1LGUNN3R
jgordon1111 wrote:waauw wrote:Westboro baptist church.
Yep prime example of a cult passing as a accepted Christian religion
Hmm yes, indeed. Funny how that happens...
-TG
Re: If you had to join a U.S.-based church, which would you?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:36 pm
by Serbia
Symmetry wrote:I'm not even all that loyal.
That's what he said!
Bollocks.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:44 pm
by notyou2
Saxi, you never mentioned the sacred mormon underwear.......I am disappointed and surely it would sway the discerning voter.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:22 am
by 2dimes
Is Saxi the leader of the shakers? Who are the other three members?
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:31 am
by saxitoxin
2dimes wrote:Is Saxi the leader of the shakers? Who are the other three members?
according to the Wikipedia article, they are Sister June Carpenter, Brother Arnold Hadd, and Sister Frances Carr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers#M ... ay_Shakers
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 3:46 am
by patches70
Scientology. Based in california deserves a vote
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 4:07 am
by ConfederateSS
-----ADD THIS----CHRISTIAN SCIENCE...
-----God will heal them....So does this mean,they do not have to get medical insurance? They can avoid the penalty of OBAMA CARE...Separation of Church and State....ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion).
.....Time to convert people....Take That OBAMA.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:49 am
by Quirk
My first run-in with the police involved the Assembly of God. I was 16, drunk and trying to change their sign to read "Assembly of Dogs" when the juvenile officer drove by. However, the Southern Baptists gave me the biggest hassle. They run my home town. They used to knock on our door and ask for me by name.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:56 pm
by jgordon1111
Quirk wrote:My first run-in with the police involved the Assembly of God. I was 16, drunk and trying to change their sign to read "Assembly of Dogs" when the juvenile officer drove by. However, the Southern Baptists gave me the biggest hassle. They run my home town. They used to knock on our door and ask for me by name.
Sounds like average small town, Midwest or southern state? Guessing less than 10,000 seems about right, using religion as leverage to control everything
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 2:13 pm
by KoolBak
The Way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_InternationalThese people are whacked...I tell you what. A good friend is one of these....we agreed years ago that he will not discuss it around me or anyone I know, and I won't kill him.
No churches....just clandestine, dark meetings in living rooms with god knows what on the shady agenda....seriously weird.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 4:01 pm
by jgordon1111
KoolBak wrote:The Way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_InternationalThese people are whacked...I tell you what. A good friend is one of these....we agreed years ago that he will not discuss it around me or anyone I know, and I won't kill him.
No churches....just clandestine, dark meetings in living rooms with god knows what on the shady agenda....seriously weird.
I am guessing if you agreed not to discuss, yet remain friends,he doesn't try to push it on you. That's one up on almost every other traditional religion in the world.my two cents live and let live. Never heard of that one before
Sidenote real friends are harder to come by than religion
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 4:30 pm
by jgordon1111
Went and looked it up, like most religion's money based, everything else seemed interpretative as all religion's are, what stood out was the orgy, wife swap stuff, if true I would like for their leadership to explain how that is in anyway known to be a design of God.
Overall opinion, not recommendable, just on edge of being full blown cult nutters
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 9:39 pm
by Symmetry
patches70 wrote:Scientology. Based in california deserves a vote
I had money on Gordie being the first to take the bait.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 12:19 am
by Metsfanmax
Bernie Sanders.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 12:32 am
by Symmetry
Metsfanmax wrote:Bernie Sanders.
Huh, the only Jewish candidate to get a primary win. What makes you think that he's the craziest religion-wise?
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 2:04 am
by saxitoxin
Symmetry wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Bernie Sanders.
Huh, the only Jewish candidate to get a primary win. What makes you think that he's the craziest religion-wise?
Mets wasn't saying Bernie is crazy, Mets was saying the Church of Bernie is crazy.
Re: What's the craziest U.S. based religion?
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 2:09 am
by saxitoxin
patches70 wrote:Scientology. Based in california deserves a vote
When I lived in LA I used to always drive by their "Psychiatry an Industry of Death Museum" but I never went in because I was afraid I'd end up on a mailing list.