Your Top Ten Thanksgiving Conversation Diverters

glitterbag wrote:

I once asked my old boss, who was a rabid Southern Baptist, when her religion first formed. I was seriously interested.

She gave me the strangest look and told me she didn't know, and furthermore, how would any religion know when it began?

Being a former catlick, I said "well, I know when mine began, it was the original. (of course that's what the church teaches, I know the history is quite different)

BTW, the Southern Baptists started in 1845.

I had a similar conversation with my husbands Aunt, after a long afternoon of dropping hints about "you need to get you to a good Baptist church". After about the 4th or 5th time she mentioned it. I asked her the same question, when did the Southern Baptists become an organized religion? She also was perplexed, and asked me what did I mean? So I said the Catholic Church considered the Aposple Peter to be our first Pope. Martin Luther, a disgruntled Catholic Priest broke away from the Church and hid followers became Lutherans, and of course King Henry the VIII made himself the head of the Church of England when the Pope refused to annull his marriage to Queen Catherine (I'm not certain if that the right wife, but I think it was Catherine)0. I ended with, so who did the Baptists split with when they became unhappy. She said, we didn't split from anybody, we are Baptists.

Later, I said to mr. gb, I probably shouldn't have done that to Olivia, he said oh it's ok, I knew what you were doing.

What color?

Bravo, Chai or should I say Brava, I think Joe Nation will be ok with your story. I love it.