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My favorite quote: The prime minister of England, Horace Walpole said in Parliament that "Cousin America has run off with a Presbyterian parson."
1 posted on 07/04/2025 11:07:21 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan

And all this time, I thought it was the Episcopalians!


2 posted on 07/04/2025 11:16:13 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: ReformationFan

That’s the old Church, they have split…the new one endorses gay marriage, woman “ pastors”, and the TransXYZ agenda. Ditto with the Methodists, Presbyterian, dying sects.

Splitting up, drying out and blowing away.


4 posted on 07/04/2025 11:28:50 AM PDT by delta7
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On my father’s side, the ancestors who served in the Rev War were 3 Dutch Reform, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Congregationalist, and 1 Episcopalian. One of the Dutch Reform ancestors led one of the charges at Yorktown under Alexander Hamilton. On mother’s side, one of my ancestors watched the battle from a hill while serving as a driver for the army. A couple more serving might have been Presbyterian as they were Scotch-Irish. Long term military family. But the important thing to me was that they were ALL fighting for a new country, side by side, regardless of their religious persuasions. Had uncles and cousins on the British side, but no direct ancestors.


5 posted on 07/04/2025 11:38:08 AM PDT by mairdie
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Actually, I thank God and whoever he uses.


6 posted on 07/04/2025 11:53:05 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Being able to trace my family back to Scotland over 500 years, I am deeply ashamed over what has happened to the, once great, Presbyterian church in America. From over 6.2 million members in 1960 to 800 thousand today - all due to the liberal takeover that started in the 1970s. I could make a strong case the PCUSA can barely be classified as Christian any more. Very sad.


10 posted on 07/04/2025 12:45:40 PM PDT by HonorInPa
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As a former PCUSA Presbyterian it was regularly preached to the pew sitters that the Presbyterians had a major role in creating the US Constitution.

These exhortations were done to the pew sitters, while at the same time the PCUSA Leadership was preaching Socialism.


14 posted on 07/04/2025 1:01:52 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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Joseph Galloway, former speaker of the house, fled back to England, blaming Presbyterians for the war, calling it a “religious quarrel.”

Speaker of which House?

I had to look it up...Speaker of the House, Pennsylvania colony.


16 posted on 07/04/2025 1:23:05 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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Presbyterians: We drink, we fight.


17 posted on 07/04/2025 1:26:30 PM PDT by ReaganCowboy (History books are written by winners.)
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