Taking the past 200 years and current events into account, would it be the mormons, catholics, southern baptists, black baptist churches, orthodox, anglicans, lutherans, jehova witnesses, methodists, episcopelian, , quakers, anabaptists, pentacostals, christian unitarians, etc, etc.
And why?
2007-03-21 18:42:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In my personal opinion, Quakers are the best christians. They were some of the first christians to oppose slavery, cruelty to animals, and support equal rights for women. The worst would have to southern baptists, no question about it. You'd think with them being so wrong about slavery and equal rights for women, they would not continue to use the Bible to bash gays today.
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the
Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other
thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the
Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but
I don't have to be nice to them. (PAT ROBERTSON, THE 700 CLUB,
January 14, 1991)
2007-03-21 19:06:40 · update #1
Maybe we should not focus so much on what divides us, but focus on The Church. Most Christian denominations have the same core beliefs. Denominations usually only differ in their emphasis. For example, Catholics and traditional protestants tend to emphasize Christ's resurrection, evangelicals emphasize his Crucifixion, and the eastern orthodox church emphasizes his incarnation. All of these aspects of Christ's life are important-- emphasis on specific areas is only provided to meet various cultural needs. All of these groups are great, as long as they are guided by scripture.
2007-03-21 18:56:34 · answer #1 · answered by She'sSavvy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No offense intended but no real Christian would ever try to judge such a thing.
Edited to say: Well, let's look at your new choices.
The Quakers are quite honorable through their generational work in the civil rights movement. But I have a friend who has a friend who is a Quaker. He told me that while the Quakers did push for civil rights for African-Americans, that there are also many racist Quakers. I guess one could assume that they did their activist work out of a sense of principle more than a sense of love.
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest collection of Baptists in the US, is a group I find distasteful for their unwavering allegiance to one political party as if they were profits from God. However, they are not to be confused with Southern Baptists entirely. Former Pres. Jimmy Carter is a Southern Baptist.
My point here being, no denomination is totally golden or totally dark.
2007-03-22 01:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by Raindog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Amish - they forgave the man who killed the school children.
Unconditional forgiveness is something that has been lost on many Christian denominations, including the Orthodox.
The worst Christians are the ones who establish churches anywhere as money laundering operations for drug dealing. There's this one Orthodox church which spent a few million on building a social center for festivals but the building remains vacant while the church is saddled with $7,500 a month mortgage payments due to unscrupulous Christians who performed shoddy work and inflated the price tag. Some of those Christians likely took these proceeds and established a new Orthodox church 20 miles up I-95.
2007-03-26 00:35:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that there is a best or a worst denomination. Choosing a denomination should really just be based on worship preferences, and small interpretations of biblical passages. I don't think that Mormonism or Jehovah's Witness should be counted as a type of Christianity though. They disagree completely with traditional Christianity, and in many eyes are completely seperarate religions.
I think that in their time the quakers did alot of really good things. They were all about worship and tolerance. Both are very good things.
I don't think that we should pin denominations against each other. We should all be working towards, and believing generall the same things. : )
2007-03-22 01:52:33 · answer #4 · answered by mars 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am the worst Christian in the past 200 years. The best? Who really knows? All I know is that I am not it.
2007-03-22 01:45:59 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Betty Bowers is the best Christian
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2007-03-22 01:58:15 · answer #6 · answered by U-98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first will be last, and the last will be first.
2007-03-22 01:52:02 · answer #7 · answered by Erin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone is part of God's family and he loves us all
2007-03-22 01:47:58 · answer #8 · answered by spanky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None are worst and best,
all are Blessed.......
2007-03-22 01:49:03 · answer #9 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know.
2007-03-22 01:53:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋