Translating passive-aggressive attacks into clear statements can be quite fun:
"Please don't bring religious content into [your own] group unless it's MY kind of religious content! Hrrrumph!"
I imagine if you pointed out the SOP can be performed with Christian invocations, it would have fallen on deaf ears. And secondly, that SOP itself isn't religion (though it can overlap with religion).
On Christianity being deader than a doornail:
Of course we see low-information Christians employing the usual out-of-context, very selective quotations from the Hebrew bible. It easily begs the question, "Where exactly did Jesus say to follow the old Mosaic laws to the letter? BTW, do you eat ham or shrimp by any chance?" When Constantine force-consolidated the various competing churches into one big (unhappy) state frankenchurch, his church bureaucrats used the flimsiest of duct tape to attach the OT to the NT and this has haunted mainstream Christianity ever since, especially regarding their schizophrenic love-hate relationship with Jews and Judaism.
Now just imagine how much better the world would be today if more Christians followed the type of Christianity that brave souls like Dion Fortune and Rudolf Steiner practiced, and not the nonsensical, crypto-materialist garbage (and now almost totally secularized) Christianity of the current year. America needs a new religion! Jesus said that putting new wine into and old wineskin is futile.
Finally, it's inevitable that a group like the one you host is going to attract a lot of Christians, both nominal and serious.
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"Please don't bring religious content into [your own] group unless it's MY kind of religious content! Hrrrumph!"
I imagine if you pointed out the SOP can be performed with Christian invocations, it would have fallen on deaf ears. And secondly, that SOP itself isn't religion (though it can overlap with religion).
On Christianity being deader than a doornail:
Of course we see low-information Christians employing the usual out-of-context, very selective quotations from the Hebrew bible. It easily begs the question, "Where exactly did Jesus say to follow the old Mosaic laws to the letter? BTW, do you eat ham or shrimp by any chance?" When Constantine force-consolidated the various competing churches into one big (unhappy) state frankenchurch, his church bureaucrats used the flimsiest of duct tape to attach the OT to the NT and this has haunted mainstream Christianity ever since, especially regarding their schizophrenic love-hate relationship with Jews and Judaism.
Now just imagine how much better the world would be today if more Christians followed the type of Christianity that brave souls like Dion Fortune and Rudolf Steiner practiced, and not the nonsensical, crypto-materialist garbage (and now almost totally secularized) Christianity of the current year. America needs a new religion! Jesus said that putting new wine into and old wineskin is futile.
Finally, it's inevitable that a group like the one you host is going to attract a lot of Christians, both nominal and serious.
Keep fighting the good fight!