The 'religious' Left has taken over my church. The United Methodist Church is now more political than religious. From the top on down. I miss the Methodism of my childhood. I don't expect to hear my politics in church and I certainly don't want to hear left-wing politics coming from the pulpit.
Amen to all you said. Won't even set foot in a Methodist establishment for what they have become.
Taking over the churches was part of the Soviet strategy for defeating the United States. (So was taking over one or more of the political parties). Like an ant nest without a queen the stinging little worker ants planted by the Soviets continue to bite at America long after the queen has died.
At least your eyes are open for what your church is and I feel bad for the ones who don't.
Something happened in the early sixties that caused the Methodist Religion to forever depart from Christianity. It, in my mind, was the advent of Methodism departing from Methodism and becoming "United Methodism" that told the tale. Along with that was an embracing of the World Council of Churches - a decidedly communistic organization. I have relatives who still embrace the "Methodist" religion and they do so from an unbelievable platform of ignorance in what has been done to their religion. I believe that we owe a debt of honesty to ourselves in whatever religion we choose to participate. In my opinion, people of the Methodist religion cannot honor that debt.