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Authors: Lou Fant,Barbara Bernstein Fant,Betty Miller

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Note: Although the signs CHERISH and STINGY are very similar, the facial expression is quite different in each case, naturally. The sign JEWISH looks as if you are stroking a beard. It would, obviously, be offensive if you signed STINGY and meant to sign JEWISH, so be careful.

Are you a Roman Catholic or a Protestant?
 

He's an atheist.
 

Additional vocabulary for religious denominations.
 

Have you been baptized?
 

If a particular denomination baptizes by sprinkling rather than by immersion, then one of the following signs is used:

I go to church every Sunday.
 

Jewish people go to temple on the Sabbath.
 

Which church to you belong to?
 

He used to be a preacher/minister/pastor.
 

She's a missionary.
 

Do you want me to interpret the sermon?
 

Choir
 

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