Posted on 06/05/2022 3:53:02 PM PDT by T Ruth
Last year, the United Methodist Church accepted Isaac Simmons, who regularly preaches dressed as a drag queen under the name Ms. Penny Cost, as a candidate for ordination. Since that time, Simmons, who serves as an associate pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Illinois, has challenged basic theological concepts, projecting a worldview where divinity rests not in God but in queerness.
In a church preparing to split over LGBTQ issues, the drag queen pastor, who embraces queer theology while barely attempting to plaster on the basic tenets of Christian theology, has become a lightning rod. Conservatives argue that Simmons’ role as a celebrated figure among progressive Methodists proves the church has become so radically liberal as to forswear Christ. Progressives promote Simmons and invite him to preach in drag as a way to challenge the conservative position on sexuality that the denomination officially still takes.
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Simmons has published a new video of himself performing slam poetry in what may be his most provocative repudiation of traditional Christianity and embrace of queer spirituality.
“God is nothing,” the self-described “dragavangelist” repeats throughout the poem, adding, “the Bible is nothing” and “religion is nothing.” In the end, he concludes God and the Bible are nothing “unless we wield it into something.”
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He speaks of God not as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but rather as the source of queerness, describing him as “nothing but a drag queen with a microphone of biblical f***ing proportions,” “nothing, but if she were, she would be ‘yes, queen’-ing her way down the runways of Paris and Montreal,” and “nothing, but if she were, she would be a seamstress of divide couture, weaving together string theory and self portraits to form the fiercest gowns of queer existence.”
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Dated a methodist once, absolutely insane. They’re a catholic wannabe cult imo.
He looks Jewish.
This stupid twit doesn’t even understand the basic tenets of faith or God.
You don’t “use” God.
You SUBMIT to God by accepting the yoke of His righteousness.
The old Southern and Central Illinois Conferences, now the Great Rivers Conference, used to be fairly conservative. I know a few pastors there who are still conservative. That this person made it through the ministerial candidacy process, which includes approval by the district and conference boards of ordained ministry, and got ordained in this conference, shows how far to hell the UMC has gone.
This is why i do not go to church.
It has become so vile I cant stand to think of going.
Itchy ears.
I encourage you to find a solid Bible believing church. Don’t let the enemy keep you out of solid Christian fellowship.
Notice the necklace to cover “her” big ole Adam’s apple.
On a related note:
“God is nothing,” the self-described “dragavangelist” repeats throughout the poem, adding, “the Bible is nothing” and “religion is nothing.” In the end, he concludes God and the Bible are nothing “unless we wield it into something.”
That's 180 degrees wrong. We are nothing unless God uses us. God and the Word have been omnipotent from before the beginning.
I’m coming to Matt Walsh’s view of drag, that this lampooning of womanhood is to women as blackface is to black people.
They’ve “defined down” everything.
Relativism is the Devil’s most effective tool.
Only missing two horns, a pitchfork, and a pointed tail,
It is, but instead of woke-ish women seeing the drags for what as nasty caricatures, they run over and hug them. 🙄
Indeed. Judgement day is coming.
That’s not a woman, that’s a clown. These people worship their own disgusting perversion.
Hey NEWBIE ANTI-CATHOLIC!!! There is NOTHING CATHOLIC about the METHODISTS....NOTHING! BURY YOUR ANTI CATHOLIC BIASES!
We are in END TIMES.....REPENT!
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