No, it is a warm, spiritual place, populated by people who love God but who (or at least many of whom) are fuzzy thinking, misguided liberals, who mean well, but who constantly have to be informed and corrected.
I do my best.
Well I wish you the best of luck. Not long ago the most dangerous folks in America were not the active enemies but those who sided with the good feeling propaganda exported by the Soviet moles and their fellow travelers.
It does seem odd when a religious group finds itself taking on modernity and becoming the voice for its defense rather than the values it historically stood for over time.
The dupes of Communism have perhaps become dupes for the secularization of religion which seeks their destruction.
Then again when you have “religous” organizations catering to dictatorships, communist and otherwise under the banner of moral equivalency and understanding, the future is pretty bleak for that group.
How long has the Council of Churches been a laughingstock for their duped behavior with Castro, Hugo, Ortega in Nicaragua, etc.?
Even as I recall hearing a Bishop discuss the oppression of the communists in Nicaragua, these “spiritual” groups hold them up and give them support.
As I was in college at that time, I remember being with a pretty liberal friend and at the end of the discussion got up and said to him, “I’m not surprised” after hearing all the government lead oppression. He was so taken aback, he was left speechless.
He had wanted to believe to that point the message from the dupes of communism like the Council of Churches that the communist in Nicaragua posed no threat to their people or others. Even though the speech had been translated throughout from Spanish, the impact left him stunned.
What will it take for your fellow church folk to wake up?