That's probably not just from schools, blackrobes, it's more likely to be from bad parenting. It seems most adults who have kids acting like that have them doing so because they don't know how to raise the kids properly.
Wudang, who was running from what?
Flame, I was inside one for a bit. It was only one church, but from what I saw the movies have it pretty accurate. The preachers shout loud, the people shout too, and there's allot of singing and dancing. When they start to worship, they probably have the closest thing to a worship/holy/gospel party I've ever seen.
About the statement of seperating from Catholism, I agree with the comment on newer versions of Christianity making up their own rules...
That being said, the origional group to break with the Catholic tradition was the Lutherans(sp), and did so not to go about and make up a religion that suited their needs, but because they disagreed with the way the Church was going about salvation for people ie: paying for redemption and all other coruptions taking place in early Catholic tradition.
Let's not forget, the early followers of Jesus were not Catholics, simply Christians. Catholisism came around much later and used pagan traditions to not only make it easier for transition, but because, frankly, every organized religious group tends to borrow from current popular tradition.
Hoodoo and Pow Wow Magick are tow other paths that combine Christinanity and Magic togther. Each practice prays to God and uses the bible, saints, Psalms, etc. The bible has changed so much over the past. For example thou shalt not uffer a witch to live was originally thought to say thou shalt not suffer a poisioner to live. Anyways the bible is full of so many great magicians. Jesus, Solomon, Moses, etc, etc.
"by many people, Christians mostly, Mormons are no longer considered Christians." This is just from keeping in touch with a number of people and asking questions. From what I have seen when speaking to Christians and other non-Mormons in places such as Idaho and Utah, where Mormons are plentiful, most do not consider them to be a Christian branch anymore. Whether or not the Mormons are is irrelevant, I was stating a common opinion.
"So many different churches have so many different beliefs now and most do not focus on the main points of Christianity. Some even go so far as to claim that when men die they become gods while females only exist as their angels(supporting sexism), I think this may be one reason why multiple wives was an idea of theirs when it first started." Although the last part of the last sentence was an opinion, this is information came from speaking directly to various Mormons and asking a variety of questions.
"To speak of history, the man who started Mormonism was a drunken gambler in desperate need for cash. He got this cash by starting his own religion(Mormonism) to appeal to the desires of various people who in turn paid him for teaching them it was OK to do certain things." To my knowledge, this is a historical fact. During a time that he was traveling as a treasure hunter, he was charged at least once for disorderly conduct within a town. This disorderly conduct included just being homeless, however, and having done a moment of quick research I can't find anything to say whether or not that was the limitation of his "crime," if you consider not being able to afford a home to be a crime.
