What is the general Christian breakdown of the community?

[Safiel]

@Piper

I checked Protestant, but that is not correct. My religious ancestors didn’t Protest anything. We grew from the Bible and a congregation. No title.

Nothing in the OP fits me.

Unfortunately, I was limited to five choices on the poll, which required me to consolidate stuff together, such as Anglicanism with Catholicism.

[moonshine]

Registered pastafarian and dudeism minister

[Piper]

@Safiel

Unfortunately, I was limited to five choices on the poll, which required me to consolidate stuff together, such as Anglicanism with Catholicism.

I know. It would have been the same for me if you’d had 20 choices.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

I have Abrahamic tendencies in my Christian beliefs. I doubt if any Christian church identifies with my beliefs.

[amadeus]

@moonshine

Registered pastafarian and dudeism minister

Dude, you’re a fellow dudeist. I know another Dudeist minister. He has married several couples.

[wonderingrover]

Technically I’m evangelical protestant as I’m still a member of a Southern Baptist church, but post 2016 I’m trying to distance myself from that group - so I consider myself mainline Protestant now.

[Optrader]

@TheRedComet

Which would make you a Protestant.

Protestants are Christians who are not members of either the Catholic Church or the Orthodox movement.

Nope. Protestants came from the reformation, all splitting from the Roman Catholic church. Christianity existed outside the Catholic Church before the reformation.

[Safiel]

I would note that Anabaptism arose during the Protestant Reformation, but Anabaptists do NOT consider themselves Protestant and were heavily persecuted by Catholics and Protestants alike in the years after the Reformation.

Anabaptism is essentially a separate branch of Christianity, as is Protestantism, Orthodox-ism and Catholicism.

[Optrader]

@Safiel

I would note that Anabaptism arose during the Protestant Reformation, but Anabaptists do NOT consider themselves Protestant and were heavily persecuted by Catholics and Protestants alike in the years after the Reformation.

Anabaptism is essentially a separate branch of Christianity, as is Protestantism, Orthodox-ism and Catholicism.

There were other Christians too, the Waldenses for example. The Roman Catholic church didn’t exist until centuries after Christ either.

[moonshine]

@amadeus

@moonshine

Registered pastafarian and dudeism minister

Dude, you’re a fellow dudeist. I know another Dudeist minister. He has married several couples.

i married one

[amadeus]

@moonshine

@amadeus

@moonshine

Registered pastafarian and dudeism minister

Dude, you’re a fellow dudeist. I know another Dudeist minister. He has married several couples.

i married one

Abide

[rp5x5]

Jesus was a Mahayana Buddhist, trying to convert Jews. Was born and confirmed a Lutheran. Jesus introduced me to the Buddha and my faith in the Supreme Law.

I know this to be true.

[gooddad409]

@Optrader

@TheRedComet

Which would make you a Protestant.

Protestants are Christians who are not members of either the Catholic Church or the Orthodox movement.

Nope. Protestants came from the reformation, all splitting from the Roman Catholic church. Christianity existed outside the Catholic Church before the reformation.

Good post. Protestant seems to be a name the Catholic Church gives everyone else.

I reject that classification and consider myself just a Christian.

I’m not protesting the Catholic Church (don’t pay much attention to them to be honest) but rather trying to follow the scriptures and worship in a similar manner to how the 1st century church did as described in Acts and other NT books.

[Optrader]

@gooddad409

@Optrader

@TheRedComet

Which would make you a Protestant.

Protestants are Christians who are not members of either the Catholic Church or the Orthodox movement.

Nope. Protestants came from the reformation, all splitting from the Roman Catholic church. Christianity existed outside the Catholic Church before the reformation.

Good post. Protestant seems to be a name the Catholic Church gives everyone else.

I reject that classification and consider myself just a Christian.

I’m not protesting the Catholic Church (don’t pay much attention to them to be honest) but rather trying to follow the scriptures and worship in a similar manner to how the 1st century church did as described in Acts and other NT books.

The Roman Catholic Church was not very happy when people started questioning and leaving their church. It was hard to question when most people couldn’t read and were persecuted, tortured, jailed or threatened with excommunication if they questioned their priests or Pope. Naturally, anyone who called themselves Christian outside of Roman Catholicism was branded a heretic. Odd, because the Roman Catholic church didn’t come into existence until a few hundred years after Jesus was crucified. What about all the people who were following Christ before then?