• Florn [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It’s not that those denominations don’t have doctrine, it’s that Evangelicals as a group tend to be somewhat hostile toward education so they never learn it.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Okay, I think my point of disagreement is that Evangelicals can be meaningfully considered part of other denominations. Everything I've seen, read, and heard about them suggests that Evangelicals and their religious leaders are wholly uninterested in theology, history, or anything else that would ground or restrict their interpretation of Christianity, and instead they just scream about culture war bullshit very loudly then yell incoherently about Jesus to given it a veneer of Christianism. Like Evangelicalism is the elevation of your own personal political and cultural :brainworms: to the position of god. Just a totally solipsistic, masturbatory adventure in self-righteous hate.

      Like I cannot really put in to words how much contempt I have for Evangelicalism as a so called religious practice.

      • Florn [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I think that Evangelicals will decide to become their own denomination sooner or later, but at present Evangelicals do nominally belong to a variety of denominations and practice differently according to those denominations, even if they refuse to learn why they do this or that ritual a certain way or why they do or don't do certain rituals at all - the point isn't to understand, the point is to do what you're supposed to. I don't think we disagree about the merits of the movement.