Dutch Protestant Churches Agree to Merge "will permit gay marriages and women pastors"

story.news.yahoo.com ^ | Fri Dec 12, 1:42 PM ET | TOBY STERLING

[Destro]

I don't know what is worse abomination-that this new Dutch Protestant Church "will permit gay marriages and women pastors" or that they were allowed to meet at a Roman Catholic church - "neutral territory" indeed.

[Destro]

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[international american]

Why bother to have a church like this at all? There is no moral imperative. Just open a spa and preach from there!

[OPS4]

The beginning of the New Age Church of the Dutch.

So much for the Word of God being upheld!

Ops4 God BLess America!

[Map Kernow]

Het spijt mij SCHRIKKELIJK!! That's too bad!

[Loyalist]

The Netherlands is recklessly depleting its cultural capital at breackneck speed even as its Muslim population grows ever larger and ever more militant.

The Netherlands will probably edge by France as the first European country to fall under sharia law.

[Destro]

This should not be done in a Roman Church.....

[Loyalist]

PING

[Destro]

Now that the Dutch dyke (pun intended-he was Gay) against the rising tide of Islam was assasinated...

[Mike Darancette]

I used to live in an area of large dairy farms and many of our neighbors went to the local Dutch Reform Church. I don't see them looking favorably upon this move.

[VOA]

Although religious debate has played an important role in Dutch history, many people
abandoned their churches in the last half century, and now nearly 40 percent of the
country identifies itself as agnostic or atheist.

Big shocker. Who wants to be part of a church that isn't "salt and light" to the world.

You'd have more meaningful experiences hanging out at a "Cheers" bar or at
a golf course/country-club.

[Destro]

These Dutch clergy do sound a lot like Cheers' Cliff..

[ArrogantBustard]

This should not be done in a Roman Church.....

Concur. If they commit a Sodomite Ceremony there, I'd be all in favour of demolishing the Church. The Bishop permitting this is extremely irresponsible.

[polemikos]

Cardinal Adrianus Simonis

Who is this?

[P-Marlowe]

Hey Jean, These are your guys. :-) They subscribe to the Tulip. They meet all the requisite criteria for inclusion into the GRPL.

Neener Neener Neener

{!}

[Old Professer]

This ought to increase their numbers.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Hey Jean, These are your guys. :-) They subscribe to the Tulip. They meet all the requisite criteria for inclusion into the GRPL. Neener Neener Neener {!}

Neener all you want... but I don't think that even Jean Chauvin (who is of the general Dutch Reformed tradition in America) would deny that Protestantism in the Netherlands has been headed downhill ever since The Dutch Arminian Church of the Remonstrants against Calvinism became the first church in Europe to bless homosexual unions almost twenty years ago.

The recognition of gay and lesbian relationships in the Remonstrant Church and in Dutch society
http://wht.nederland.org/lezingwburg.htm
Dr. Wibren van der Burg

I feel very happy, honoured and proud to be at this conference. It is a great pleasure for me as a gay man to speak to such a large audience of gays and lesbians. I am honoured as a representative of the Remonstrants to be invited to talk about our experiences with blessing ceremonies for gay and lesbian couples. And I am also proud that our small church made a contribution to the struggle for equal rights for gays and lesbians, as we were in 1986 the first church in Europe to officially recognize such ceremonies.

Yet again, we see the Arminians introducing novel and fascinating new ideas into the pure Reformed stream of Protestantism, just as they have been doing for 400 years. So, Thanks again, Arminians! We can always depend on you!!

Though from those things of which we can always depend on Arminians to bring in their wake, may God save us.

[Angelus Errare]

So what is the point of a having a religion if the denominations abandon all of the moral teachings behind it to begin with? Oh well, if the birth rate continues to decline in Europe they'll learn their lessons soon enough ...

[drstevej]

OUCH!

[P-Marlowe]

Thanks again, Arminians! We can always depend on you!!

Ah, personal responsibility has never been a srong Calvinistic trait has it? Its the Arminians fault. But ultimately it is God's decree that homosexuals have taken over our Church. Yeah, that's it. It's God's will. God predestined them to be Calvinist Homos.

You know, OP, you are making a strong argument for the error of the entire Reformation Movement. If both Arminians and Calvinists are in apostacy and God is sovereign and has decreed it from the foundation of the earth, then maybe the RCC does hold the keys to the kingdom after all.