steinrokkan posted:

What's the difference

BonHair posted:

That's Catholic, not Christian.

Count Roland posted:

I've been assuming that Christian is a generic term that encompasses Catholicism, Orthodox churches as well all the assorted Protestant denominations.

Is this not the case?

Count Roland posted:

I've been assuming that Christian is a generic term that encompasses Catholicism, Orthodox churches as well all the assorted Protestant denominations.

Is this not the case?

Vasukhani posted:

Probably a Georgian emigre. Most Americans from the former soviet union support Trump and are fond towards Putin.

Rebel Blob posted:

You should ask Jack Chick (a Baptist, if you are wondering): Are Roman Catholics Christians?

Sure there is lot of extremely dubious religious nitpicking, but did you know that the Roman Catholic church is actually decended from the Cult of Baal in Bablyon?

The_Other posted:

Christian Flag? do you mean this one?

I've never actually seen or heard of this flag before.

The_Other posted:

BonHair posted:

That's Catholic, not Christian.

And anyway your want this:


E: tag yourself, I'm the three English flags

Ardennes posted:

Yeah, don't do this even if it is a joke.

BonHair posted:

Sorry. I thought it was a weird fringe belief that could be safely mocked, but it sounds like it's more common than I thought.

Count Roland posted:

I've been assuming that Christian is a generic term that encompasses Catholicism, Orthodox churches as well all the assorted Protestant denominations.

Is this not the case?

Mr. Wiggles posted:

packetmantis posted:

This is absolute bullshit. Go to hell.

quote:

In the 2012 and 2008 elections, 70 to 75 percent of these émigré voters cast ballots for the Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain, respectively, says Sam Kliger, the director of Russian Jewish Community Affairs at the AJC. In this presidential election, Kliger predicts the percentage of Republican voters in the Russian Jewish community is likely to dip slightly to 60 to 65 percent, a trend which Kliger says might be caused by the uptick in the number of second-generation immigrants who, unlike their parents, were educated in the United States and tend to veer more to the left on the political spectrum. The older generation, Kliger says, "despises socialism and communism."

Gary Gindler, a Ukrainian Jewish émigré and a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, says that growing up he had to memorize Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" and various tomes by Vladimir Lenin. Gindler says he had $800 when he arrived in the United States. Within two years, he found a job, purchased a house for his wife and two children, and had changed his name from Igor to Gary. Though apolitical at first, Gindler started picking up on the cadence of American politics after he received citizenship in September 2001.

He says, however, he was disappointed when he realized that his son and daughter were receiving an education, like the vast majority of Americans, in "Marxist" educational institutions, despite their father's experiences. "My children were very pro-Democrat when they graduated high school. All their teachers were these nice young liberal types – of course they supported the Democrats," he says, sipping on his Coca-Cola. "I hope their opinions have started to change," he says, adding that he believes high income taxes could quickly turn them into appreciative conservatives.

SlothfulCobra posted:

Catholics, Orthodox, Baptists, Anabaptists, Lutherans, Calvinists, Mormons, Methodists, Nestorians, Quakers, Jehova's Witnesses, Moravians, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Evangelicals all count as christian, and while people may have big disagreements in doctrine and really care about distinguishing between different denominations, they all share similar origins and some key beliefs.

I think some people consider themselves just "Christian" without really acknowledging their denomination, and so they try lashing out pretty hard on denominations that they see as extra-alien. Others are still salty about schisms. Whatever.

I think it only really gets confusing when you find the few edge cases like Messianic Jews.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

this post got a bunch of real basic stuff wrong, so i suggest nobody rely on it, but i also feel like a big effort post reply to it would be getting off topic, so i will just explain the main points

the biggest problem with the post is that it doesn't consider the beliefs of the people it is all lumping together: one of the basic things you have to do when talking about religious sects is to consider how the adherents of each sect think about themselves in relation to other sects. the second biggest problem is that the post says it's "not confusing" to lump in Nestorians, Mormons, and Jehova's Witnesses with the more traditional groups, which, just, lol

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Discounting people desperate enough to become refugees, people who successfully emigrate tend to be richer and more right-wing, no? Worldwide.

That said my gf is from Kazakhstan and has a big sickle and hammer tat so at least some immigrants aren't rightists.

Have a cool Kazakh flag

SlothfulCobra posted:

Mr. Wiggles posted:

Serious flag/heraldry question here - when a bird like the eagle above, or the American eagle, or whatever is displayed this way - with the wings out and the feet splayed, etc, what's that called? I know it's not "rampant" or "per gules" or whatever heraldry term it is, but I'd like to know the official name. Thanks!

aphid_licker posted:

Yeah that's a great flag for a flag with text

Mr. Wiggles posted:

Serious flag/heraldry question here - when a bird like the eagle above, or the American eagle, or whatever is displayed this way - with the wings out and the feet splayed, etc, what's that called? I know it's not "rampant" or "per gules" or whatever heraldry term it is, but I'd like to know the official name. Thanks!

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Writing systems with a calligraphic tradition can do text flags fine.

BonHair posted:

Especially if it's stylised a bit:

Pope Hilarius II posted:

It just looks better to people who can't read the script so they parse it as a design pattern instead of letters.

aphid_licker posted:

I do suspect that this plays a role. Mirrored arabic is just as dumb as PMURT to someone who can actually read arabic

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I can read cyrillic and some older soviet flags with stylized text look good. The bad text is a "SMALLTOWN USA" around a seal in comic sans

Pope Hilarius II posted:

idk it looks nice when blown up to a large size but in smaller sizes it looks like jpeg artifacts

I agree with the other poster who said text on flags is kind of gauche, and I think it holds true even for scripts like Arabic or Devanagari. It just looks better to people who can't read the script so they parse it as a design pattern instead of letters.

Quorum posted:

Or, an eagle t-posing sable.

Byzantine posted:

T-pose to assert imperium