Leaders and religion

[Tamsin_Bailey]

So true, it’s either Father Ted or the Vicar of Dibley.

[anon30760835]

@XantheStone

I was raised one.

I worked with one. She always got Saturdays off

[anon30760835]

@L0ki

or the one with a woman vicar eating hobnobs in the vestry.

That technically disqualifies my Unitarian church.

[L0ki]

Well, that and not being part of the Church of England

[anon30760835]

@L0ki

that and not being part of the Church of England

My particular church very much so. Evolved since then, but the Congregation was first gathered by:

William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)

[HMSGoose]

@KathyPartdeux

But those documents are sealed in the Vatican’s Secret Arhives.

Can confirm, I saw them when I broke into the Arhives with a rag-tag group of preteen adventurers in the 80s. All I was able to hang onto during our daring escape was this:

[Heraclito]

@anon30760835

That technically disqualifies my Unitarian church.

And denying the Trinity.

[KathyPartdeux]

@HMSGoose

Can confirm, I saw them when I broke into the Arhives with a rag-tag group of preteen adventurers in the 80s.

How is Mr. Quest these days?

[anon30760835]

@Heraclito

And denying the Trinity.

But not the Hob-Nobs, which is rather the point of proper leadership.

[L0ki]

Hmm, depends how you see it I suppose. I think the key word there is “separatist”.

See:

Puritans

and:

English Dissenters

So, it would seem Mr Brewster might have considered himself a part of the Church of England and the Church might just about have agreed at the time - but probably not.

Members of his congregation would presumably have certainly ceased to be members of the CofE by 1662 at the latest with the Act of Uniformity.

As @Heraclito says, the denial of the Trinity would have been a problem (and was for Unitarians in the UK until quite recently [well, recently by UK standards] - technically illegal).

ETA: But as long as they like Hobnobs, they’d be fine nowadays.

Plus at least they’re not Muggletonians (always one of my favourite Dissenting congregations).

[Tamsin_Bailey]

My pub quiz team used to be called The Basque Lift and Separatists…

[Missy_Pants]

I didn’t know until recently that my family was Anglican!
Technically NOT Catholic… but OMG so Catholic.

[Mindysan33]

Still doens’t make him Jewish.

@zaxxon

damn how did i blank on obama?! youre so right

No. Not Jewish. Christian. He is a Christian…

[zaxxon]

yea part canadian

[Mindysan33]

Really. Okay then.

[anon50609448]

Is this thread here because we all miss:

Quotes on religion and the mythical Christian solar god Jesus's association with the Sun

~Quotes “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”—Thomas Jefferson: Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and…

[Melz2]

@anon50609448

Is this thread here because we all miss:

Let me be the first to say:

NO, I do not.

In regards to the question that started this thread:

[Tamsin_Bailey]

At the beginning I was thinking this was a set-up to mine us all for background for some sub-Assassins Creed fan-fiction.
It could have gone so much worse…

[GulliverFoyle]

@Mindysan33

Actually, Nixon was a Quaker.

One of my favorite quotes…

“He [Nixon] inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.” ~ James Reston

[TobinL]

@anon50609448

Is this thread here because we all miss:

Some of you will get this…