Posted on 04/24/2016 8:03:58 AM PDT by NRx
There is not one mention of God during the 70-minute service at Toronto’s West Hill United church. Bibles are nowhere to be seen. The large, steel cross – one of the few remaining religious symbols in this church – is hidden behind a cascade of rainbow streamers.
But that is perhaps to be expected in a church led by an avowed atheist.
“I do not believe in a theistic, supernatural being called God,” says Gretta Vosper, the United Church of Canada minister who has led West Hill since 1997. “I don’t believe in what I think 99.99% of the world thinks you mean when you use that word.” Tor her, God is instead a metaphor for goodness and a life lived with compassion and justice.
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“I ... I ... I ...” It’s all about ME! Hey, look at ME! I am so important I don’t have to believe in God! Hey! Hey there!
It’s not a church,it’s a social club.What kind of pathetic people would attend such a place?
Like the Episcopalians.
She is no pastor and this is no church. It is a left-wing social club that meets once a week in a former church building.
Doesn’t Canada have Consumer Protection laws? Isn’t fraud illegal?
It makes perfect sense. An atheist minister when one recognizes the state as G-d, so government is the religion.
The official state religion bible would be written by bureaucrats.
Mark
The end result of the devolution of Mainline Protestants.
Sort of pathetic when a Thomas Jefferson is more religious than an actual so-called minister.
There’s that “justice” word again.
***An atheist minister when one recognizes the state as G-d,***
Sounds like she has eaten of the sacrifice to god Caesar.
“into the 21st century”
Yes, in the 21st century B.C. this is what pagans felt. Nature was the all powerful, not a divine being.
Atheist Pastor? That’s like a Whore/Virgin.
The writer seems to have a Muslim name?
The FOOL hath said in her heart, “There is no god.”
SHE is her god, striving to be god to her “congregation”.
It’s not a church,it’s a social club.What kind of pathetic people would attend such a place?
I think three quarters of the parishionate at any suburban Catholic Church would love a service such as this...
“The official state religion bible would be written by bureaucrats.”
If bureaucrats ever did write a bible, it would never be finished, because no bureaucrat would want to lose that sweet gig. It would get 100 pages longer every year, like the tax code!
>>Many in the clergy privately share her view on God, she says, turning her into a sort of standard-bearer for a conversation that is already happening in the wider world.
In the liberal mainline denominations, I think you will find that this is true. It’s not a majority or even a large minority, but there are a significant number of leftist pastors filling pulpits today who don’t really believe in God anymore.
Pastoring is just a job to them with a paycheck, benefits, and a retirement plan.
If there is no God, good and bad are subjective terms and therefore, everything is relative and there is no right or wrong.
My ideas of doing good and having a good time can be 180 degrees off what anothers is. Who are they to limit what I can and cannot do, then?
More accurately, its like an honest politician.
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