One fourth of us SHLOGGERS don’t care a bit about denominations. But the vast majority (82%) say that while no one denomination owns the market on truth they do prefer one denomination over others for themselves. The Church of Christ folks chimed in with 5% of the vote, believing they’re the only ones that are right. (Please, no hate mail from the Church of Christ folks. It’s a joke.)
And for the 1% who said they don’t know what a denomination is let me explain it like this. Denominations are factions of Christianity. They’re like brands of the same product. (Wow, we could take that analogy some scary directions couldn’t we?) These denominations were usually created by one group of people leaving another denomination to start their own because of some issue that at the time seemed like a big deal and the right thing to pout about.
Southern Baptists for instance, the denomination whose logo is on the sign in front of the church I currently attend, were formed to keep slavery alive. The American Baptists became the against slavery group and the Southern, who wanted to stay rich and white, did not accept African-Americans as human but as property. And we’re still pretty much rich and white while American Baptists are still very racially diverse.
Free Methodists didn’t like Methodist churches selling assigned seats for the church service so they broke off and did their own thing: open seating, first come first served. Just two examples of the kinds of things that have created these schisms that still exist today. Some divisions formed around weighty life and death issues and others over making church a non-ticketed event. How did your denomination get it’s start? You might be surprised when you find out.
Gresham, age almost 3, went to the emergency room last night just after dinner. He jumped off of an ottoman and onto the couch, which was bouncy enough to catapult him over the back of the couch and into a wooden table a few feet away. Apparently he’s got a vertical.
Three hours later, Dr.Todd at Williamson Medical Center’s emergency room tells us he’s fine. He’ll just have some gnarly scars on his right eye lid and eyebrow for life and a golf ball sized knot just above for a few days. He looks like Rocky in the third round. Cool.
It’s kind of sick I know but I’m proud. A trip to the emergency room is a rite of passage into manhood, or a mark of stupidity. Maybe both. Either way, he’s a little more like me now.
I hate blog spam, usually found in the comment sections. If you seem to be posting a comment only to promote your new miracle drug or your blog that’s really a home loan showcase I will delete your comment immediately. So why bother?
Fighting capitalism everywhere,
Shaun
The winner of the “SEND THE MOST PEOPLE TO SHLOG.COM” contest is…
Still stings a little but I’m laughing more than crying. TINY CAT PANTS, an irreverent and sometimes hilarious Nashville blog, posted the above as her (I think it’s a her) “link” to SHLOG.COM. Sure, there was obviously some cheating going on since most of the hits from TINY CAT PANTS came from the same person, but I left that loophole open I guess.
Thanks TINY CAT PANTS for giving me a lot of humility and quite a few hits too.
Did it work? Did we hit the 300 mark? Did we ever! SHLOG.COM received 472 VISITORS (not just visits) yesterday from sites like these that kindly linked to us:
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Thanks everybody.
