Michael Flynn states the USA needs one religion

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My mom, my NT sister, and I are practicing Catholics, but if such a situation ever happens, we would pack up as quickly as possible and find a safe haven overseas.

However, if such a situation ever happens, it would obviously be a totalitarian state run by Communist-wannabes, but if this happens, the three of us would fight back against such a possible system.

Both of us, my fellow Lutheran!

IMO, not only this, but also all freedoms that are part of the US Constitution.

Namely, the First Amendment will then be torn to shreds?

Then what, the second Civil War?

....Or I could actually be a 'Grey Jedi'.

I just recited the Sith code just for fun.

Evangelicals have a long history in America, and include a number of different groups, including Baptists, Pentecostals, Methodists, and nondenominational churches.  After the schism among the Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians in the 1850s over slavery, conservative denominations like the Southern Baptists -- who defended slavery through their twisted interpretations of Biblical Scripture -- came into being.

Evangelical denominations formed from these splits in the South were comprised of people who had made money from slavery or supported it.  After the Civil War they were more likely to have supported the Ku Klux Klan and approved of (or participated in) lynchings.  The burning cross of the KKK, for instance, was a symbol of white Christian supremacy, designed both to put fear into the hearts of African Americans and to highlight the supposed Christian righteousness of the terrorist act.

Evangelical churches teach the belief that men should control women.  Their sermons focus on a wife submitting to her husband's authority in everything, from finances, to where and when she works, to how often they should have sex, to how many children she should have, and to how she should vote (if she is is allowed to vote at all).  The husband is to be respected as absolute head of the family, because this is allegedly "God's plan".  This is also why evangelical churches are breeding grounds for domestic violence.

The First Amendment to our Constitution clearly states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".

Michael Flynn, an "Evangelical Christian", is simply repeating what some in the GOP have long championed: The idea that "freedom of religion" means imposing their "religious" beliefs upon the rest of us.

^So basically, those people are actually cloaking their hatred and control for authority underneath a veil of 'righteousness' all this time?

BINGO!  Sadly, they are also deluding themselves into sincerely believing that the only "True Christians" are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, wealthy, white males who may or may not have heard of someone named "Jesus".

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If you define evangelical by it original Greek meaning (“good news”), rather than what it means nowadays (“fundamentalist”). Flynn, in my book is neither, except in the service of the talented grifter, Donald J. Trump, Sr.

The Greys don't follow a code do they?

Flynn's religion is QAnon

American Lutheran Church

No more altar calls. If I'm at any kind of service and they have an altar call, I immediately get up and leave.

By the way, I thought about starting to go to a Cowboy Church until I saw a video of a Sunday service from one. The entire hour was just the preacher telling everyone what he thought. Being Lutheran, I'm used to a Liturgical Service and this was pretty much the opposite.

The one kind of non-Liturgical church that I would be likely to consider would be the Quakers. I do like the idea of everyone sitting there in silence unless one feels moved to speak. From what I understand, they will occasionally have a service where nobody says a thing.

Thanks for the info, but I was asking those questions about Michael Flynn's religion.



Sorry ... I should have been more specific.

I attend a Presbyterian church, which could be viewed as "Lutheran Lite".  Our altar call occurs near the end of services, so you would get to sit through everything else..

I never realized that the Presbyterian Church has altar calls!

Each year, there are a few community type services around here. For example, Baccalaureate for the graduating class, a Community Thanksgiving service, a Community Christmas service, and a small number of others. For years, they were very non-denominational.

Then some of the new fad-type preachers with their cult-like congregations took notice and joined the group. Instead of being non-denominational, they seem to treat it as an opportunity to impress everyone with their great wisdom (ha ha) and recruit them for their church. These invariably include altar calls. These have greatly increased my awareness of altar calls and my opposition to them. Prior to that, I was mostly ambivalent to them.

For a little story about altar calls, when we were kids, there was some kind of Baptist revival came to town and they held a daily revival at the school. It cause enough of an uproar the first day that after that nobody was required to go. Quite a few did, though.

One guy who was a year younger than me and went was a local hell-raiser. He went because of the altar calls. Someone asked him, "Why do you go to the altar calls? You're a Catholic and, as far as I know, Catholics don't have them." He replied, "Where else do you get to down and hug lots of excited, crying girls?" He never missed an altar call back then.

Our altar calls are more subdued -- mostly announcements of anniversaries, birthdays, and travel plans -- rarely is there ever any emotional display, and I have never seen anyone "slain in the spirit" there.

I think they'd be closer to Taliban wannabes than Communist wannabes.