Talk:Followers of Christ

Redirects
Created redirect from Followers of Christ Church to here.  Queerbubbles |  Leave me Some Love  12:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Inaccuracy
As of 16 June 2009 724am PST, the Wikipedia article Followers_of_Christ includes: "In January 1999, a bill was introduced in the Oregon Legislature to repeal the "religious beliefs" defense to charges of manslaughter, homicide, and child abuse.[14] After much debate, a modified version of the law was subsequently passed later that year.[4]" However, the law in question (State Law House Bill 2494 Section 163.555 2b) reads: "In a prosecution for failing to provide necessary and proper medical attention, it is a defense that the medical attention was provided by treatment by prayer through spiritual means alone by adherents of a bona fide religious denomination that relies exclusively on this form of treatment in lieu of medical attention." Thus it is inaccurate to claim religious belief defenses were repealed. The exact opposite is true. See http://www.leg.state.or.us/99reg/measures/hb2400.dir/hb2494.en.html Trevor Blake —Preceding undated comment added 14:23, 16 June 2009 (UTC).
 * Read the bill again--that language is enclosed in { - (language) - }--which means that it is language which is being stricken from the code as part of the bill. --96.225.248.146 (talk) 06:57, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Moved from article
The Prosecuted couple in Alberta, Canada were not affiliated with, nor did they know, any of the members of the Oregon City church. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nobody1972 (talk • contribs)

Thats interesting since the Shippeys have common blood ties.Elprofesordemente (talk) 13:49, 25 May 2009 (UTC)elprofesordemente

Yet another death (retrieved 6-15-09)...
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_061409_faith_healing_death.7dd0ad81.html --Contributions/98.232.181.201 (talk) 19:18, 15 June 2009 (UTC)


 * That article was no longer displayed when I looked earlier. I did find these recent articles from the same site, however:, , , and   &bull; Astynax talk 21:50, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Same group?
I looked at J. Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions (7th edition. 2003. Farmington Hills, Michigan: The Gale Group, Inc. ISBN 0-7876-6384-0) for this group and found on p. 1137 his description of a group which sounds the same, but with differences from this article. Here are points from his entry for "Followers of Christ":
 * founded in Ringwood Oklahoma in the late 19th – early 20th century by a Mr. Riess
 * Riess passed leadership to Elder Morris, who passed it to his son Elder Marion Morris
 * stress the necessity of following Christ based on Matt. 4:19
 * use the King James Version of the Bible
 * beliefs include repentence, baptism by immersion, receiving the spirit and Christ's commandments
 * rejection of medicine in favor of prayers for the sick
 * children are sanctified by their parents' faithfulness
 * rejection of deathbed conversion
 * practice footwashing and fasting

Is this the same or a related group? If it is related, then the relationship should be explored in the article. &bull; Astynax talk 22:06, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

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