Religion and churches in the VI

That's my kinda place! 🙂 I can't wait to move away from the TCRZ-- Ten Commandments Removal Zone.

Geez...I'm hoping the family and I can find some decent post-modern, open-minded, Reformed churches that don't yell at you. Am I gonna be out of luck?

Neil,

Convert to Catholocism - we don't yell. 🙂 We're too busy feeling guilty to draw more attention to ourselves.

>Posted by: bluwater (IP Logged)
>Date: Today, 07:42PM
>Neil,

>Convert to Catholocism - we don't yell. smiling We're too busy feeling guilty to draw more attention to >ourselves.

Hilarious Bluwater! Made me laugh. Thanks!

I agree simkiss. "TCRZ"

Puddlejumper

Too coincidental Neil. That's one of the reasons I logged on here...to find out if there are any post modern churches on St. Thomas. From what I'm reading, I'm thinking not. My husband is considering taking a job on STT. He's down checking it out as I type.

Make sure that you check it out too.

I plan to, but I wanted him to go down first and get a feel without my opinions getting in the way. He's the one that has to work there, not me. Or maybe I will. Anyway, didn't want my very opinionated self getting in the way of his first impressions 🙂 Loving this forum by the way. What an amazing tool!

I presume that you will have to live there, so just make sure that any input you have is heard in all the "new job" excitement. If you go down for a visit after the fact, sometimes we women don't want to rock the boat etc. LOL.
Good luck

What is a post modern church?? We don't have much of anything "modern." 😉

Some would say "liberal".
I would say "open-minded, non-dogmatic, and not overly emotional."
You know, like Jane. (sorry Jane ;))

You are not sorry, otherwise you would have not posted an irrelevant personal attack on me. The winking smiley disguises none of your spite.

That was very petty and vicious, is christianity really a religion for small mean little people?

Jane I agree that was rude. Normally I am on the other side. But I am with you on, she needs to see STT before things get to far. Not to knock STT at all. I no I don't want to live in Lodi CA and I am glade I have seen it before I, well I was never going to live there. Still her opinion matters she will have to live there. If my wife did not love snorkeling, diving and watching me fish, well that last one might be a stretch. She is a field botanist with love of the plants that I am trying to learn. If she did not feel like me about the island STX it would not work. To stay on topic organized religion is for the weak mind. How can some one buy that crap. Your preacher knows less about god then my dog and that goes to nuns, fathers, all religion

True Relationship with Christ is profound, personal and not easy to share. Mere Christianity by CS Lewis does a fair job of it. Organized religion is man's idea of how to worship God and many are, indeed for the weak mind. A thinking, educated person often finds faith in quieter, more contemplative or cerebral worship. Free Will Baptist on StX seems to come the closest I have seen so far. (and no, I am not a Baptist!)

aschultz: I started this thread with the statement that one should never talk about religion in company. It seems to be a polarizing idea on this board. I wish you luck on St Croix.

Simkiss: I think you will find a variety of believers and non-believers around. Seek the antiqueones. 🙂

I still am not sure about a post modern church?

Hey EE.

“We want a God without wrath who took man without sin into a kingdom without justice through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.” --H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America (a post-modern church)

More on postmodern Christian thinking can be found here: http://www.crossroad.to/charts/postmodernity.htm

Somehow, I knew it would be you with the answer! 😉

dnt: It sounds like the Episcopal Church in America... Thanks for the link.

Admittedly the link is from the perspective of a group that eschews postmodern thinking but you're right, postmodern Christian thinking is very much in line with the Episcopal Church.

...and the Episcopal church is not so far removed from the Church of England - shades of Kevin Bacon here.

Well, the Episcopal Church in America is (so far) part of the Anglican Communion.

Jane: You must be enjoying the pop culture in Big America, because you sure have me on what on earth Kevin Bacon has to do with the Anglican Communion....

EE,

I think Jane is referring to the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

who's on first?

Why would you not want to talk about it. Is it because fiction is hard to play for fact. I enjoy talking to religious people they can be funny. You will never see me in a church on STX or any where else for that matter. I am not anti religion do what you want, it does not bother me. My religion is science it makes more sense.