Posted on 10/15/2021 7:09:27 AM PDT by Morgana
United Methodist Women are “praying” that Texas and other states will allow mothers to abort their unborn babies and stop trying to ban abortions.
An organization of the United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women recently issued a statement criticizing the Texas heartbeat law and defending abortions.
State pro-life leaders said the law, which prohibits abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, has saved about 3,000 babies’ lives since it went into effect Sept. 1.
But the supposedly Christian women’s organization portrayed the law as oppressive, arguing that “women and families need access to the full range of reproductive health care, with the guidance the church provides.”
“We pray that legislators in states across the country will make a different choice and allow women to discuss health care needs with their loved ones and health care providers,” the United Methodist Women said.
However, the organization did not mention what that “choice” is: killing an unborn baby in an abortion. Abortions do not help women, and they are not health care. Aborting an unborn baby for basically any reason, as abortion activists want, is not a “human right.”
Killing an unborn baby contradicts Christianity, too, though some Methodist leaders try to claim otherwise.
Baptist News Global reports Stephanie Arnold and Katie Gilbert, pastors at First United Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama, recently created a video on TikTok criticizing Texas for protecting unborn babies from violent abortion deaths.
“As people of faith, we believe in reproductive rights,” they said in the video. “We won’t take this anymore.”
Dressed in costumes from the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Arnold and Gilbert described the pro-life law as “unjust” and “patriarchal.” They said it strips “women of their agency and rights,” and “women are people, too.”
But Christianity teaches that unborn babies also are people, something the United Methodist leaders neglected to mention. The Bible recognizes unborn babies as valuable human beings in multiple passages, and condemns the shedding of innocent blood and the harming of children.
True Christianity rejects violence and raises up the most vulnerable. It defends the defenseless and offers compassion to the suffering. This is what pro-life advocates, secular and religious, do every day for mothers and babies across the world. They offer struggling families true blessings by reassuring them that every life is valuable.
Yet, in the name of religion, some Christian leaders are perverting the truth and leading people astray. In doing so, they are further jeopardizing the futures of countless children in society.
Are there any Christians still in United Methodists? Hard to imagine.
They look like Pilgrims. Not everybody reads stupid novels or watches dumb bass movies................
Sorry fellow Freepers. But most of mainline American Protestantism has degenerated into neo pagan nihilism. Don’t feel alone, Pope Francis is right on your heels.
It depends on how old your grandmother is. As far back as 1971 (before Roe v Wade) they were meeting in the Methodist Building in DC to build a "religious" coalition to support abortion. And donations to the Methodist church was paying for it.
Look up the history of the GBCS (General Board of Church and Society), the RCAR (Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights) and RCRC (same organization with new name Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice). The Methodist leaders spear-headed that through their GBCS (their lobbying group). Starting as far back as 50 years ago.
John Wesley, who preached heavily on living holy lives and was very much a part of the Holiness Movement, is rolling over in his grave.
The problem with this country is the church. Once a bulwark against depravity, wickedness and insanity now all onboard. Certainly tail to the rotten thoroughly corrupt establishment.
Hmm... Their Bible reads differently than mine.
Let me put it to you this way. My Grandmother passed at age 90 years ago and took me to her church when I was a child. This crap did not go on, I remember.
Are you a Methodist? Theres plenty of them that are ChristIan. The church separated over homosexual unions. What other churches did that? This singular chirch these women are a part of are is Satanic! Read Revelations some time. Out of the 7 churches, Jesus said would only stand with the 1 church of Philadelphia
Ephesus: The church that had abandoned its first love for Christ (Revelation 2:4).
Smyrna: The church that would face severe persecution (Revelation 2:10).
Pergamum: The church that needed to repent of sin (Revelation 2:16).
Thyatira: The church whose false prophetess was leading people astray (Revelation 2:20).
Sardis: The sleeping church that needed to wake up (Revelation 3:2).
Philadelphia: The church that had patiently persevered (Revelation 3:10).
Laodicea: The church with lukewarm faith (Revelation 3:16).
Adding extra lanes to The Road to Hell.
Indeed, the mainline has become the ‘wide road’.
Praying to the God of the Left - Lucifer.
The Methodist churches I’ve known (my dad went there) were always on the more liberal side of the “moderate” position.
I will give the church a thumbs up for sponsoring the Boy Scout troop I was in, though.
I personally attended a much more conservative church where my mother’s side of the family attended.
They may be many things, but people of Faith, they are not. In the end, they will hear Jesus say, depart from me, I never knew you.
My grandmother funded and help found one a very long time ago that grew quite large.
She’d be blown away by this.
...”But the supposedly Christian women’s organization.....”
a good line, that.......
Women have taken over the individual churches across the nation.
They may not be the pastor but they control the finances, the head the groups within the church (church pantry, community outreach groups etc) , who gets hired and what is spoken.
The woman elder in our local Prebysterian church is the manager of the local battered womens shelter.
Sick people with no faith in God. Babies Lives Matter.
The Methodists that I know are not like this group.
“”This is NOT my Grandmother’s Methodist Church!”
It depends on how old your grandmother is. As far back as 1971 (before Roe v Wade) they were meeting in the Methodist Building in DC to build a “religious” coalition to support abortion. And donations to the Methodist church was paying for it.
Look up the history of the GBCS (General Board of Church and Society), the RCAR (Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights) and RCRC (same organization with new name Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice). The Methodist leaders spear-headed that through their GBCS (their lobbying group). Starting as far back as 50 years ago.
John Wesley, who preached heavily on living holy lives and was very much a part of the Holiness Movement, is rolling over in his grave.”
Also, in the 60’s the Methodists “voted” that sexual intercourse between engaged couples was no longer sinning. (I forgot what book/chapter/verse that was in.) No longer needed to get married to have at it. Also, since adultery concerned married couples only, engaged was the way to go.
Those Methodists, real swingers those people...
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