What are you reading tonight?

[thebish]

this evening...

245 pages of Safeguarding good-practice and policy information in preparation for a day's training tomorrow (in addition to the training i have already done) to clear me for a leadership role in another church denomination...

deep joy...

Muslim ?? Jewish ??

Methodist.. (I doubt that either the Muslims or the Jews would welcome being described as church denominations..)

and - no, Pirate, before you ask - it didn't have any tits in it!

[Gary the Enfield]

this evening...

245 pages of Safeguarding good-practice and policy information in preparation for a day's training tomorrow (in addition to the training i have already done) to clear me for a leadership role in another church denomination...

deep joy...

Muslim ?? Jewish ??

Methodist.. (I doubt that either the Muslims or the Jews would welcome being described as church denominations..)
and - no, Pirate, before you ask - it didn't have any tits in it!

They're all Abrahamic though, so technically different branches of the same tree?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Started Across Many Mountains.

[William the White]

this evening...

245 pages of Safeguarding good-practice and policy information in preparation for a day's training tomorrow (in addition to the training i have already done) to clear me for a leadership role in another church denomination...

deep joy...

Muslim ?? Jewish ??

Methodist.. (I doubt that either the Muslims or the Jews would welcome being described as church denominations..)
and - no, Pirate, before you ask - it didn't have any tits in it!

They're all Abrahamic though, so technically different branches of the same tree?

They are certainly one big, happy family...

[CAPSLOCK]

I'm going to break my Bryson Virginity

I've got all his stuff, so

Where to start, please

I favour his travel stuff but fear you'll tell me to do science

[Bruce Rioja]

Notes from a Small Island as your start point, Fella, and head out from there.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Notes from a Small Island as your start point, Fella, and head out from there.

I concur. Not only is it a brilliantly funny book but it'll introduce you to himself as well as it tells you why he's writing and all the background you'll need to know. I suggest the one after that should be the one about the Appalachian Trail (title temporarily forgotten) just because.

[Bruce Rioja]

Notes from a Small Island as your start point, Fella, and head out from there.

I concur. Not only is it a brilliantly funny book but it'll introduce you to himself as well as it tells you why he's writing and all the background you'll need to know. I suggest the one after that should be the one about the Appalachian Trail (title temporarily forgotten) just because.

See, I'd have gone for Neither Here nor There as a recco for 2nd (although it was about my 7th) but too be honest, after Notes from a Small Island I reckon you could pretty much pick any up as the style's been established.

[TANGODANCER]

Bryson's Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is a great read, not that there are any bad ones.

[thebish]

They're all Abrahamic though, so technically different branches of the same tree?

aye - but not "church denominations" - they are "religions".

I guess it'd be a bit like calling Wales a county...

[Gary the Enfield]

They're all Abrahamic though, so technically different branches of the same tree?

aye - but not "church denominations" - they are "religions".

I guess it'd be a bit like calling Wales a county...

But they are within the 'church' or 'house' of monotheism.

Definition of Church: public worship of God or a religious service in such a building

[thebish]

They're all Abrahamic though, so technically different branches of the same tree?

aye - but not "church denominations" - they are "religions".

I guess it'd be a bit like calling Wales a county...

But they are within the 'church' or 'house' of monotheism.

Definition of Church: public worship of God or a religious service in such a building

well - you could try it - but I have never heard a Muslim or Jew refer to their religion/building/religious activity/affiliation/or, in fact anything to do with their faith by using the word "church". (and I have spent many hours in the company of Muslims discussing their faith and plenty of times with a local (liberal reformed) Rabbi...)

nor have I ever heard anyone use the phrase "church of monotheism" or describe the members of such a church (religions, presumably?) as "denominations"...

so - on that basis - describing Judaism or Islam as "church denominations" is (in my humble opinion) not summat they would respond well to...

anyway - I was talking about the Methodists who are happy to be called a church denomination.

[Gary the Enfield]

They're all Abrahamic though, so technically different branches of the same tree?

aye - but not "church denominations" - they are "religions".

I guess it'd be a bit like calling Wales a county...

But they are within the 'church' or 'house' of monotheism.

Definition of Church: public worship of God or a religious service in such a building

well - you could try it - but I have never heard a Muslim or Jew refer to their religion/building/religious activity/affiliation/or, in fact anything to do with their faith by using the word "church". (and I have spent many hours in the company of Muslims discussing their faith and plenty of times with a local (liberal reformed) Rabbi...)

nor have I ever heard anyone use the phrase "church of monotheism" or describe the members of such a church (religions, presumably?) as "denominations"...

so - on that basis - describing Judaism or Islam as "church denominations" is (in my humble opinion) not summat they would respond well to...

anyway - I was talking about the Methodists who are happy to be called a church denomination.

Okay, but the Methodists and Moslems go to a Temple, which is a type of church.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

They're all Abrahamic though, so technically different branches of the same tree?

aye - but not "church denominations" - they are "religions".

I guess it'd be a bit like calling Wales a county...

But they are within the 'church' or 'house' of monotheism.

Definition of Church: public worship of God or a religious service in such a building

well - you could try it - but I have never heard a Muslim or Jew refer to their religion/building/religious activity/affiliation/or, in fact anything to do with their faith by using the word "church". (and I have spent many hours in the company of Muslims discussing their faith and plenty of times with a local (liberal reformed) Rabbi...)

nor have I ever heard anyone use the phrase "church of monotheism" or describe the members of such a church (religions, presumably?) as "denominations"...

so - on that basis - describing Judaism or Islam as "church denominations" is (in my humble opinion) not summat they would respond well to...

anyway - I was talking about the Methodists who are happy to be called a church denomination.

Okay, but the Methodists and Moslems go to a Temple, which is a type of church.

Moslems go to a mosque.

[Gary the Enfield]

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And temples

[thebish]

I'm not really sure what you are trying to prove GtE!! slow day at work??

[Gary the Enfield]

I'm not really sure what you are trying to prove GtE!! slow day at work??

Yup.

So if Methodists go to temples and Moslems and Jews do too, is it too far a stretch to say they are of the same Abrahamic House (or church) and that their secular deviations could also be defined as denominations of monotheism?

[Bruce Rioja]

Tonight I'm reading 'Tango Hits the A10'

[TANGODANCER]

Tonight I'm reading 'Tango Hits the A10'

Yes, I got it.

[thebish]

I'm not really sure what you are trying to prove GtE!! slow day at work??

Yup.

So if Methodists go to temples and Moslems and Jews do too, is it too far a stretch to say they are of the same Abrahamic House (or church) and that their secular deviations could also be defined as denominations of monotheism?

Methodists that I know usually talking of "church" or "chapel" rather than temple.

I'm not sure why you would want to stretch language like that... you COULD, I suppose - but people who live these faiths don't (in my experience)... you've lost me with the bit about "secular deviations".

monotheism isn't an organisation - it's a concept - I'm not at all what sense it makes sense to speak of different "denominations" of a concept.