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Originally Posted by RedNeckRaider
I grew up Irish Catholic and have attended Baptist, Methodist,Pentecostal and non denotation. I was surprised that some of them spoke ill of other churches. There are bad people in all walks of life. I have however never heard of a church blocking a new member. That said FTR I am agnostic.
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My experience exactly. I grew up Catholic in a small town, and all of our churches supported each other, and had regular functions that the other supported. I was totally shocked when I came down there and heard one Baptist member totally dogging another Baptist church. I thought it was just an isolated case, until I was here for a while. Religion is much more of a business down here. The churches are very competitive for members. Say what you want about the Catholic church, but all the $$$ go back to the central organization, and then gets dolled back out to the individual parishes. This cuts a lot of that crap out.
DT