[mbarker12474]

Jesus loves victims. Victims, victims, victims.

12 percent of the UMC collection goes to fund and support this sort of thing.

Note this event was sponsored by the UMC's Native American International Caucus. Apparantly this or similar events were sponsored by the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries and the Youth Service Fund, administered by the Division on Ministries with Young People at the United Methodist Board of Discipleship.

Mike B.

[AD from SpringBay]

Calling Ward Churchill, calling Ward Churchill

[neodad]

Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart

Mel Gibson's daughter?

[Niteranger68]

Me no understand white man's guilt, but me take advantage of it. Gunga Galunga.

[Northern Yankee]

Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart?

I thought Brave heart came from Scotland?

Don't tell Mel Gibson!

"Help, help, I am being oppressed!"

[Maria S]

I am continually amazed at the creativity of the human species! If we could bottle the thought process needed to think up yet another way to make a profit by claiming victimhood, we could sell that bottled "thought power" and make our own fortune.

I am even more amazed that methodists (or at least the UMC) have allowed themselves to be aligned with the United Nations. The following is just one of many examples of UN/UMC association; it IS an older article, but you'll get the idea.

UNITED METHODIST BISHOPS CALL SUPPORT FOR
THE CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:woZYxO1BcnsJ:www.iccnow.org/romearchive/papers/RomeTreaty/UMCSupportICC.doc+The+UN+and+United+Methodist+Church&hl=en


The Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church, voted at their semi-annual meeting from April 27 to May 1, 1998 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, to support the creation of a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC). Among other international issues, they also urged all United nation member states, especially the United States where most of the church’s members come, to pay on time and without condition, their financial treaty obligations to the United Nations.

The Council of Bishops is composed of all the active and retired United Methodist bishops (about 130) from the United States, Europe, Africa and the Philippines in Asia. The Council is tasked the general oversight and promotion of the temporal and spiritual interests of The United Methodist Church whose members all over the world total about 9.5 million.

This action of the United Methodist bishops follows a move made earlier by the church’s international social action agency, the General Board of Church and Society, to join the international NGO Coalition for the ICC. Since joining the Coalition, the Board’s United Nations Office based in New York City has been participating in the coalition’s activities, including meetings of one of its caucuses, the Faith-Based Caucus on the ICC.

[Monterrosa-24]

While this is Leftist garbage it is still less dangerous than the "Theology of Liberation" stuff usually poured forth by the Methodist Board of Global Ministries. The UMs spend plenty in places like Central America and have no churches to show for it. The Jehovah's Witness and the Mormons have churches all over Central America while the UMs build Habitat houses or get involved in seminars on the poor.

We need a revolution within the Methodist Church. Our other choice is too jump ship to Independent Methodist Churches or some sort of Church that is not ashamed of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

[Wuli]

I have read current materials used by the UMC in it's deaconess program. It's straight out of Marxist liberation theology and it's run by the Women's Division of the UMC.

If the little old ladies that have financially built the Women's Division of the UMC over the past four generations read the material, they would not find their "Church" in it.

Yet, go to many UMC Churches across the country and the one demographic group that will stand out as a sizeable portion of those attending is single older women.

These are the women who funded the UMC missions to Asia in their youth in the 1940s, married the men who fought in WWII and Korea, built the Women's Division with their $$ in the 1950s and 1960s and now, in their widowhood, as the growth of their church stagnates, Marxist liberation theology educates the young women who stand before them in the pulpit on Sunday morning and ask them to sign the antiwar petition on their way out.

I know what I speak of because I personally know and am well acquainted with people who work in the UMC HQ today as well as people who attend UMC churches.

[punster]

The Methodist Church has officially taken the position: A woman has duty to submit to rape, instead of doing anything that might harm her assailant.

Perhaps, members of the Methodist clergy need to secure the services of a surgeon, to place eyeholes next to their belly-buttons. Why? So they can see out.

[alrea]

Historical trauma has a layering effect and is the "cumulative emotional and psychological wounding over the life span and across generations, emanating from massive group trauma," she said.

since communists killed over one billion people in the 20th century are we all suffering from a layering effect?