Posted on 10/28/2017 2:16:36 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A church attended by George Washington will take down a memorial to the nation's first president, a move church leaders say is intended to make the place of worship more welcoming.
The Washington Times reported Friday that Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., will remove memorials of Washington and former Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which stand on either side of the church's altar.
"The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome," church leaders said. "Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques."
Washington began attending the church soon after it opened in 1773, and bought a pew there. He attended for more than 20 years, though he appeared more regularly at Pohick Church, southwest of his estate at Mount Vernon. Christ Church's decision to remove the statues comes amid a national debate over whether Confederate statues and monuments should be taken down. That debate resurfaced in August after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned violent.
While that debate has focused primarily on Confederate memorials, President Trump suggested shortly after the Charlottesville protests that taking down some memorials would eventually lead to statues of Washington or Thomas Jefferson being removed as well.
What insanity!
This is obama-ism.
They should tear down the church. It was “contaminated “ by having Washington once attend services there.
I think the church was talking about building an abortion facility on the grounds next to the planned LGTBQ Welcome Center.
ISIS strikes again.
It is the biblical scripture in 1 Corinthians 8 that spells out the danger of being a stumbling block. This scripture is taken to mean, because other people think it’s wrong, you might be a stumbling block to them. However, what others think is wrong and what the Bible says is wrong may be two different things. Honoring our first President and the leader of our liberty is not forbidden in the Bible. Any action that does not in itself violate any scriptural precept or principle is not a stumbling block. It is not a sin. Anything that leads a weaker person to violate their conscience is a stumbling block. Seeing a portrait of George Washington is not going to lead another into participating in slavery.
The inches have become miles ...
Why I no longer am an Episcopalian. The Episcopal Church has not been a Christian denomination for a long time. IMO, it literally (and I mean literally) is a dwindling collection of hardcore Socialist ideologues who are ruled & directed by Satan.
Episcopals are now the Church of Sodomy. The worship the High Holy Anus and the Sainted Rectal Prolapse. Gays have fled into this former Christian sect because they mislead them that their lifestyles are healthy and equal to straights and are to be applauded for being “courageous.” A ghastly and monstrous lie.
This must be the plaque that the church removed...
READ THE INSCRIPTION:
Following his family’s church tradition in England, when John Washington died, he left to the church a tablet of the Ten Commandments, on which he inscribed:
“Being heartily sorry from the bottome of my hart for my sins past, most humbly desiring forgiveness of the same from the Almighty God (my Saviour) and Redeemer, in whom and by the merits of Jesus Christ, I trust and believe assuredly to be saved, and to have full remission and forgiveness of all my sins.”
http://amerisearch.net/index.php?date=02-22
And people wonder why church attendance is declining.
If I went to this church, I’d stop going starting today.
<< “ ... essentially ‘America’ is becoming less of a nation and morphing into some sort of morass of people who happen to share geography. “ >>
Essentially ‘churches’ are becoming less about church and morphing into some morass of people who happen to share worldly views.
George Washington was devoutly Christian compared to the luke warm who are running the little Virginia church, and favor the malcontents who seek the demise of the nation who gave them freedom of religion.
Let them enslave themselves to the ANTIFA Leftists and their personal preferences. That’s the trick.
nigers
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
— George Orwell, “1984”
And apparently nothing but geography.
So what’s next? Will that “church” remove its crosses and other vestiges of Christianity because they make a few malcontents feel “uncomfortable?”
Sadly, the majority of “Christian” churches and denominations are illustrating the apostle Paul’s caution in 2 Timothy 4:3:
“For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;”
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