Posted on 09/05/2006 2:19:07 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
Progressive Christians Start O.C. Chapter
By Ann Pepper
The Orange County Register
A group of Orange County activists wants to recast the public voice of religion and base it on Christ's "radical" admonition to love your neighbor as yourself.
This summer, hoping to attract believers who feel their faith has been hijacked by political interests, Progressive Christians Uniting, a 10-year-old Southern California-based organization, opened an Orange County chapter.
The group has already begun launching teach-ins and discussion groups, including one to be held Sept. 12 to Oct. 31 at First Christian Church in Fullerton. The seminars will be based on a 2006 essay collection, "Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel," which was edited by the Rev. Peter Laarman, the group's executive director.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Once again, I will renew my opposition to applying the word "Progressive" to people who would actually regress us into libertinism and barbarism.
Essentially "log cabin" (5th Column) 'christians'.
Genuine Plastic woodgrain christians.
I'm not exactly quaking in my boots in fear of the religious left. It seems that the most "progressive" churches have the smallest congregations.
small churches, BUT attendance is not the issue.
I think this is a liberal attempt to counter the Religious Right. This is the 2006/2008 election strategy.
We are going to see spectacular charges against conservatives from the progressive churches. AND we will see spectacular law breaking bu the same churches as they endorse and raise money for DNC candidates.
BUT there is an ultimate goal, and that is to use liberal churches to infiltrate and control the various evangelical denominations. Attendance neans nothing. The number of liberal delegates to the denominational conclaves is everything!
This is more than forcing the Southern Baptists to embrace Gay Marriage and Abortions. This is to gain access to the money, and shut off a protected conservative voice for the Right.
So what if 50 progressive churches in your denomination open up in your area. So what if only 20 to a 100 members belong to each one. That means 50 more voting delegates for the libs.
You may not believe that persecution is comming to this country. The rats HATE Christians and Jews! If Conservative Christians stand in their way, you can bet there is a rat plan to remove or destroy the obstacle.
Perhaps the following creed:
I believe in one god, I believe in three.
I believe in 20 gods if they believe in meFrom Leonard Bernstein's Mass, 1971
Quick, someone introduce the good Rev. Laarman to Peter Fiorino, the limousine liberal who heads up The New Majority.
They're made for one another...perfect.
Perhaps they will be worshipping at the Church of the Sainted Austrian...
Way too far!
ROFL! Good one.
They may be too far out, even for Fiorino... or maybe not. This guy Laarman used to be with the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village. The church was built in the late 1800s, thanks to the generous donations of John D. Rockefeller. According to a 1990 NYT article, the church organized support for labor unions and sharecroppers in the 1930s and "really hit its stride" in the 1950s "in the ascendancy of beatnik Greenwich Village." Further they wrote, "since 1956, has continued to emphasize social issues including abortion, the war in Vietnam, disarmament, homelessness, prostitution, AIDS and housing discrimination." At one point, the sanctuary of the church was turned into a theatre sponsoring gay musicals by Gertrude Stein and others.
Yawn. They always seem to do this around election time. During off-numbered years, the bedwetters scoff at Christians, mock their "superstitious beliefs", and say witty things about them at brie-and-vin parties.
During election years, we're treated with "our faith foundations are an important part of my life" and other claptrap.
I swear, there was this one Democratic politician (the State Treasurer) who'd I'd only see every Sunday before the next Tuesday's election.
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