yes.

[kaigou]

Religion is a circumstance of birth for most people. We're indoctrinated into it and that's where we hang out for most of our lives, wallowing in and out of varying degrees of fanaticism for it. ... Yeah, people convert, but outside of countries where [there's] Freedom of Religion or something, [for] the most part, generically speaking, you are what your parents taught you to be.

killermuff rocks my world.

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[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

No, LCMS doesn't share pulpit privileges with any other branches, even with ELCA churches. Two LCMS leaders recently got in trouble--one for co-officiating at his niece's wedding with an ELCA pastor, and another for participating in a prayer service after 9/11 that included many different faiths. That sucks big time.

Um...what's Rite I and Rite II? (And yes, the liturgy is so similar that I feel right at home in a Roman Catholic church service.)

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Rite I is the formal, older style: It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks -- while Rite II is the modern version: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks...

Most often you see Rite I and Rite II contrasts in the LP. "For thine is the kingdom and the power" is Rite I; the modern version is "For the kingdom, and the power, and the glory are yours". The thing to note is that this isn't set in stone; I was raised in Rite II churches but some use Rite I during the Eurcharist for its more formal language.

And YES damn it I CAN still quote massive sections of the Nicene Creed. You hear this crap nearly every Sunday for the first eighteen years of your life and IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY.

Gimme bleach.

*snickers*