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President Bush Called "Evil," Evangelicals Equated With Nazis at NCC-Sponsored Conference
The Institute on Religion and Democracy ^
| 5/27/2005
| John Lomperis
Posted on 06/01/2005 11:53:24 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Pete
I tend to agree, these people have a very tenuous connection with reality. I just finished Byron York's book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy in which he explained how this bunch evolved. Short version: They live in a liberal echo chamber. Within the cozy confines of Hollywood, New York City, college campuses and such places, they only talk to fellow liberals and thus manage to convince themselves that everyone agrees with their twisted world view.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:13:43 PM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!)
To: Unam Sanctam
This is what happens when Propecy fails. Especially Liberal propechy.
NCC is probably a short timer in terms of membership and ability to rabble rouse. They are going to go the way of NOW.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:13:55 PM PDT
by
TexanToTheCore
(Rock the pews, Baby!)
To: Unam Sanctam
the "religious left" should instead focus on organizing itself, "infiltrate[ing] our seminaries," and reaching out to "the middle church, the middle synagogue, the middle mosqueI'm sooo looking forward to watching the religious left infiltrate the middle mosques of America.... but not holding my breath !
To: Unam Sanctam
Katherine Yurica, you are so clever !
To: Conservativegreatgrandma
I had dinner with a Pastor of a Christian Metodist Episcopal Church a few weeks ago. He stated that the children in his church are turning out "way Charismatic".
So, there will be changes in the future.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:18:17 PM PDT
by
TexanToTheCore
(Rock the pews, Baby!)
To: Unam Sanctam
The lack of creative thinking on the Left is numbing. If Republicans are always Nazis the comparison has become meaningless. Boring, boring, boring.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:18:34 PM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: All
It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside seeing these idiots do this in a public way so the real country can see what they are like.
To: Semper Paratus
The influence of the National Council of Churches has been declining in America for over 40 years, since the incredible involvement of its leadership in Communist Front Activity, was exposed in the 1950s and 1960s--some of it by a neighbor of mine. Those exposes' helped many congregants, suspicious as to why their ministers showed so little theology, to fill in the blanks.
Here, they show that they understand even less about political movements, than they do about religion. Dean Swift would find a place for this crowd on an island for Gulliver to land on. Pretty funny stuff.
William Flax
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:19:17 PM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: Steve_Seattle
People are so spoiled these days. If they had suffered through some of the events you've listed, they would be more grateful for our president and his vision of democracy for the world.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:19:21 PM PDT
by
peacebaby
(Polite southern women will never say to your face what they can say behind your back.)
To: Unam Sanctam
I can just picture the snack table for these nutburgers. Prozac or Lithium?
To: Unam Sanctam
Another featured speaker was Joseph Hough, President of Union Theological Seminary in New York. Hough mocked Southern Baptist leader Richard Land for opposing homosexual practice while not following Old Testament dietary laws. He complained that John 14:6 (Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." NRSV) had been taken out of context to support a "Christian exclusivism." According to Hough, "that one verse is responsible for the Holocaust." Noting that he "strongly support[s]" homosexuality and abortion rights, the seminary president said that he was "fed up with" the strong focus on those issues by conservative Christians. Union Theological Seminary used to be respectable, or so I thought since most of the senior ministers of the American Baptist Church I grew up in had been educated there. Maybe I was unaware of the agenda and maybe it has somewhat changed.
Our services were very sedate and buttoned down, the sermons scholarly and intellectual, the music great. I observed that members were only required to talk the talk, not walk the walk. I long since left.
NCC mainstream Protestant churches seem determined to secularize and marginalize themselves. I'm hoping for a backlash where people sincerely and truly seek God; I think it's happening. It's all that can save this Great Nation.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:19:48 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Remembering our Heroes today and every day.)
To: lilylangtree
I would love to have seen Michael Medved, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, and David Horowitz give their 2 cents worth at that Satanic gathering, so as to balance it out with a Pro-Bible viewpoint.
To: TexanToTheCore
What are you saying? You think there's hope for these "churches"?
To: Unam Sanctam
This fad of calling people Nazis is way out of hand. These people have little or no idea what evil the Nazis were about. It only confirms what idiots they truly are.
To: Red Boots
Nah, the Left will give the Muslims a pass on the anti-women, anti-homosexual activity stuff -- after all, their extremists fight the good fight against the truly evil force in the modern world -- America.
To: Unam Sanctam
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
--Ephesians 6:12
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:21:49 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(One may smile and smile and still be a villain.)
To: dandiegirl
"I wish someone would meekly ask WHY they think Christianity is so evil."
1. Because their study has been limited to Western history and has focused on religious wars, slavery, Inquisitions, etc. They seem unaware that these kinds of evils existed in other parts of the world and so believe they are uniquely characteristic of Christianity.
2. The even greater and more recent evils of socialism and communism are overlooked or excused.
3. Christianity demands some discipline of our sexual impulses.
4. They are incapable of understanding nuances, circumstances, etc,. and see everything in black-and-white terms.
5. They are almost completely incapable of self-reflection, and project their dark side onto others. We're all bad boys sometimes, but at least conservatives usually know when their being bad boys. Conservative Christians generally - if not always - know they are sinners.
To: Unam Sanctam
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:23:40 PM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Conservativegreatgrandma
Ironically, President George W. Bush, is a member of the United Methodist Church and attends the Episcopal Church. Even so, he was famously denounced in January 2003 by ECUSA Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold from the pulpit of the National Cathedral.
Bushie counts on conservative Christians for his base, but he's a mainline Protestant.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:24:44 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Remembering our Heroes today and every day.)
To: TexanToTheCore
I'm a member of a very conservative Methodist church which practices "high Methodism." My teenage daughter attends a Methodist church which is charismatic. While I enjoy these services, (and once was so moved that I was speechless and in tears) I'm not uncomfortable with this charismatic way of practicing one's faith. It just isn't my way.
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posted on
06/01/2005 12:25:46 PM PDT
by
peacebaby
(Polite southern women will never say to your face what they can say behind your back.)
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