To The Christians...What Denomination Are You?

[Alex K]

I've found my fundie friends in the USian south to practise something like that - I thought at the time that it was a very American democratic kind of Christianity, where at least you pretend not to take anything on blind authority from living people and every individual is empowered to go to the source themselves.

I think that those who identify as Biblical Christians are differentiating themselves from organized religion and the idea that you should get your beliefs from the pulpit. Which is not an irrational idea; if the Bible is god's word to mankind, then why wouldn't anyone be able to read it and figure it out? This is complicated somewhat by the tens of thousands of ways that it gets interpreted, but that's not a problem if you don't think it was written (or inspired) by god.