Hm. I'd take the top with a short skirt — but no jumpsuit!

And yet they love to claim that they're one of the largest denominations in the country....

I was ALWAYS in church until I went away to college and discovered what a prim jerk it had turned me into. It was only a few years ago that we started going to a Lutheran church. Which, of course, to my evangelical friends, is not a Christian church, and probably not a real church at all. *eyeroll*

Ah, that's good to know! ;)

And they just keep on milking it....

Wow — we're ELCA, and they make it clear that not only are Lutherans and Catholics are Christian, other Protestants are, too. I do find it interesting, though, that Southern Baptists don't recognize that a member has joined a church of a different faith. Even if you ask to be removed from their rolls. Leads me to…

You're right, though — the middle books were like they were just calling it in! And the end of the last book, when main character guy (totally forgot his name) meets up with his two dead wives and one says "I thought this would be awkward, but it's totally not!" my eyes almost rolled out of the sockets.

The books were just awful. Co-written by a theologian and a "writer" and neither could write a decent female character, so they just killed off the women when they couldn't think of anything else to do....

As a Lutheran, my Baptist friends don't consider me Christian. Actually, they'd never heard of Lutherans. According to my pastor, though, the whole Rapture mess is not Biblical, and thus Lutherans have the good sense not to believe in it. The quote below from 1 Thessalonians speaks only of the raising of the dead…