‘Inter’ = Between. Which bit do you think they didn’t read?  Perhaps they thought it was just different flavours of Christians. (Let the Baskin-Robbins jokes begin)

According to my own personal thesaurus, based upon having been raised in a Baptist church, common synonyms for “Baptist” include “self-righteous”, “intolerant”, “stupid”, “bigoted”, and “dumbass”.

Evangelicals seem full of these types of examples. But this one is certainly special.

also from the statesman.com news article
Every year, a different faith group hosts the Thanksgiving event, which typically includes food, prayer, song and dance.

DANCING in a baptist church property!!! they should have claimed that was the reason they had to back out of their agreement.

Bah, there I was, hopping over to the comments in the hope that some religious nutjob defended the baptist definition of “tolerance”, and I’m at a loss - there is nobody like that here.

What happened? What’s wrong? Do I need to re-think my life?

Guido- just wait, I’ll draw the nutjobs in….Golden Compass, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Kent Ham, Kent Hovind….There, that should do it!

Bog Brother- you forgot the Grilled Cheese Virgin Mary…

This is happened a lot…Christians tend to think that Interfaith means just a bunch of other Christians.

I’ve been invited to panels for interfaith discussion.  One was for a class on religion…it was enlightening with Mormon, Muslim Christian and Pagan members all there.

Another all the various groups turned down.  The local John 3:16 church wanted to have Pagans and Muslims on a panel so they could:  “learn what makes pagans and muslims tick and apply this to the conversion process in Europe and Africa.“

We said Hel No.

You guys all missed the point. They actually heard the kid who works their favorite liquor store was showing up and they couldn’t have him spilling the beans about the head deacon showing up last month totally plastered.

An interesting thought: would the organizers allow the Atheist Community of Austin to participate, or would it be a “believers only” event?  I’m not saying the ACA would want to participate, or that atheism is a religion (though many theists do make that claim), but if they wanted to, would the organizers refuse their participation?  If yes, would they be forced to admit that Atheism is not a religion? Perhaps I’m stirring up a pot of shit here where none need be stirred, but I thought it was an interesting thought.

I wonder what the local community reaction has been?  I mean outside of the local

asshat

Baptist community.

I would imagine many in the area are glad that terrorists are being kept out of THEIR church.

Just another reason to not move to Texas.

Brother Spikey Mace of Patience, Bog Brother is waving them in, and you alone are going to make things pop in their poor l’il heads. It could be bad. 

Guess they must have confused interfaith with intra-faith.

Brother Spikey Mace of Patience, Bog Brother is waving them in, and you alone are going to make things pop in their poor l’il heads. It could be bad.

Oh Brothers and Sisters, have mercy on these poor confused people, for they seem unable to undahstand that there is a veritable plethora of religious inclinations all across this heere fine nation, especially in the region of the GREAT state of Texas, where in there is alone at the very least at least FOUR whole different indahviduals of the one true faith; of course I am speaking of the faith that moves mountains, the faith that makes the blind to walk and the lame to see, the faith that alone has defeated the evil one and delivered us into the eternal salvation that is so rightfully ours for believing in his noodly appendages.  Yes Brothers and Sisters, have faith and ye shall be touched, and pray that he does caress these HEATHENS with his noodly goodness soon so that we can all come together and be of one mind and one spirit. In his Noodly Name we pray.  Ramen.

So I started reading Bog Brother’s passage in a Southern Baptist voice, and could barely hold back my laughter as I got toward the end.  

So I started reading Bog Brother’s passage in a Southern Baptist voice, and could barely hold back my laughter as I got toward the end.

If you do read it aloud, ya gotta remember that the first sentence needs to be said without taking a breath in order to make it sound extra authentic.

By definition a megachurch is independent. Hyde Park Baptist church is not, they participate in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Speaking of knowing definitions to words…

By definition a megachurch is independent. Hyde Park Baptist church is not, they participate in the Southern Baptist Convention.

Um, semantics aside, how exactly does that change the point of this thread?

Each and every baptist preacher is a deviate. I know a lot that got converted in jail and other deviant places. GO Boys GO - Your Bullshit always catches up on you!!
Science never backed down from religion, but religion always “kow-tows” to science!
Religion is on it’s way out - thank f=ck.
Long live AMERICA - f$cf all christians, muslims, jews and other misguided people.
love
gerry

Wow.  Gerry, if you aren’t being a total sarcastic ass (and I know a lot about being a total sarcastic ass), can you just keep that to yourself?  We at the World-Wide Atheist Conspiracy don’t really need your kind of help.  You see, with your absolute statements and generalizations about one or more religious groups, you just come off as what they like to call an “Angry Atheist”. It doesn’t really help our cause, you just look like you’re pissed at their god.  If you want to be angry, try producing some hard evidence to support your claims, be frustrated at their absolute claims and groundless assertions rather than producing your own.  It helps us keep the Rational Thinkers Cup in our trophy case from year to year.

Sincerely,
Bog Brother
King of the World-Wide Atheist Conspiracy

Why is everyone so surprised this happenened. Interfaith to them could only mean other christian churchs and If you think the nation of Islam followers would do anything different wake the fuck up and smell the c4.

told ya so -
Ah yes, the old “at least we are not as bad as the Muslims” defense.  Who said anything about being surprised? Do you think that anyone here is surprised that a denomination not exactly known for it’s tolerance of other religions does not understand “interfaith”?  No, I’m pretty sure this was posted to point out the irony.  Kinda like the fact that you interpreted the irony as surprise.  You know, that’s kinda ironic all by itself. Good jorb!

By the way, the Nation of Islam is the group lead by Louis Farrakhan, not the terrorists from Saudi Arabia who took down the WTC.  Though they share the same religion, and The Nation of Islam does have questionable methods and practices, I doubt that you should really equate 9/11 to the Million Man March.  They do happen to share the same religion, but if you are going to paint all Muslims with the same brush, then there really shouldn’t be any difference between Catholics and Baptists right?  After all, they are all Christians, right?

Hooray, the nutjobs are starting to pour in! Bring it on

Too bad there aren’t just religious ones but actually atheist ones too, this comes as a surprise to me (unlike the things about baptists, or “told ya so”‘s completely predictable banter).

The funniest thing is that that last reply obviously stems from a person who hasn’t had much contact with muslim culture as of yet - traditional stereotypes, both muslim and christian ones, are the thing my (muslim) parents-in-law and myself (being agnostic, but on paper christian) laugh most often about.