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To: Wallace T.

Mainline Protestant churches do not support this crap as a majority

There are schisms over this right now

Since Protestant includes everything besides Catholics like you it’s a broad group

Church of Christ

Southern Baptist

PCA

Southern Methodist

All Pentecostals

Serious Lutheran and Anglican

Those combined are the majority of what passes for Protestant in America

They do not support wokism

Maybe a few outliers but that’s what they are

Loud outliers

Catholics always have to do what you did there

Why?

I don’t lump all Catholics together


54 posted on 04/13/2023 9:39:43 AM PDT by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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To: wardaddy
Definitions are important, at least for this writer, a Calvinist who believes transubstantiation, purgatory, Papal supremacy, prayer to saints, high veneration of the mother of Jesus, placement of tradition on a par with the Bible, and other Catholic doctrines to be incorrect.

What is a mainline Protestant church? Those are the denominations that are the historical and organizational heirs of the first Protestant churches founded in what became the United States. The Methodist (UMC), Episcopalian, Presbyterian (PCUSA), Congregationalist, Lutheran (ELCA), Reformed (RCA), Northern Baptist, and Disciples of Christ denominations. Excluding the last, these denominations were known as the Seven Sisters and were the core of the leftist National Council of Churches. Through the steady infiltration of these denominations, starting in the late 1800s, they moved from Biblical doctrines to essentially a secular humanist theology. There have been many split off groups, starting with Gresham Machen splitting from the predecessor of the PCUSA to form the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in the 1930s.

These denominations have far less influence than they had prior to 1970, when the old Northeastern WASP elite, who belonged to mainline churches, was largely displaced by a newer and substantially Jewish elite in finance, higher education, and politics. Their numbers have declined relative to the U.S. population. However, their representatives are still used to provide a religious and "Christian" cover for abortion, sodomy, and other leftist causes.

60 posted on 04/13/2023 10:24:50 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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