Posted on 07/12/2023 7:30:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
A Protestant denomination that claims to follow Christ passed a pro-abortion resolution this week that describes aborting unborn babies as “health care” and pro-life laws as “sexual violence.”
The United Church of Christ General Synod overwhelmingly passed the resolution “Proclaiming Abortion as Healthcare” in a 611-24 vote, according to the denomination website.
UCC leaders said they created the resolution in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned Roe v. Wade and began allowing laws to protect unborn babies from abortion again. Currently, 15 states are enforcing laws that protect unborn babies from abortion, and more are fighting in court to do the same.
Most Christians believe killing unborn babies in abortions is wrong because every human being is created in the image of God. But a few have strayed from this teaching.
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Glorious! Thanks for sharing.
No, you are correct. They must just gloss over the whole book of Psalms.
The religion of health care baby murders. Yikes. Pure evil.
Let them ask the babies. Oh, yeah, well, never mind...
No, that’s also a much different organization.
The Murdering of innocent babies is healthcare? So I guess the UCS (United Church of Satan) thinks gun violence is healthcare, too?
satan
In Germany, the home of Lutheranism, “Evangelical” is a synonym for Protestant. Thus, the state supported Protestant church in that country, a “shotgun wedding” of the main Lutheran and Calvinist bodies by the Prussian and German governments, is known as the Evangelical Church. In this country, “Evangelical” means a traditional Protestant of many denominations, in contrast with liberal mainline churches like the United Church of Christ. In Lutheran ranks, the Missouri Synod and Evangelical Wisconsin Synod are evangelical in the American sense, while the ELCA is decidedly not.
The other part of the resolution is even more evil.
To call getting pregnant and/or carrying a child to term “violence” is inhumanly evil.
“Mainstream” Protestantism, like Reform Judaism, is a culturally themed denomination of the Democratic Party.
Abortion is murder, NOT “health care”!!!!
And the pedophile biden, the “darling” of the UCC, perpetrates REAL sexual violence against children via his immigration policy!!!!
Thanks for telling us about this news. I know a pro-life Lutheran pastor who was the pastor of a UCC church. After 17 months, they suddenly fired her, without giving a reason. She’s rostered with the General Lutheran Church and Lutheran Orthodox Church, and she’s glad that she doesn’t work for the UCC.
It is the “United Church of Christ.” Formed in the 1960s and mostley in New England, parts of PA and Ohio IIRC.
They have been loosing members for decades. At it’s peak they were around 2.2 Mil members, now down to the mid-low 700k range.
On paper I’m a member of a UCC “church”, haven’t attended a worship in 10 years or so. Back in 2005 or so, it was a thriving congregation. Had 2 worship services, early with maybe 50 people and a later one with Choir and Synday School wiht 100-125 + 20-40 kids.
Now, they are down to one service with normally under 50 in attendance. COVID gave them the idea to install a permanent streaming camera system, spent thousands on it and only get 3-5 views each week.
Due to a fire in 2010 so so, they have a new larger sanctuary, multi-purpose room, kitchen, meeting room plus the older office and Sunday school building that was saved by the FD. In May 2021 when the state dropped all Coof mandated they continued to mandate masks, canceled all non-worship events like church supper/fund raisers, well into 2022.
Anyway, they are/were gonna try to hire a consultant as they have realized each year they are pulling more funds from the endowment then they make on investment income, even before Biden’s stock market. They estimate 5-8 years before the endowment runs out and they can’t pay utilities. Yes, the endowment now paying for electricity, gas, etc.
Get woke, go broke.
On paper I’m still a UCC “Church” member. They use pianos, instrumentals, etc. It is a very loose origination so some local churches could have that restriction.
On paper I’m still a UCC “Church” member. Haven’t attend in ~10 years.
Back in 2005 or so, it was a thriving congregation. Had 2 worship services, early with maybe 50 people and a later one with Choir and Sunday School with 100-125 + 20-40 kids.
Now, they are down to one service with normally under 50 in attendance. Often times the only Sunday School child is the Pastors daughter.
Due to a fire in 2010 so so, they have a new larger sanctuary, multi-purpose room, kitchen, meeting room plus the older office and Sunday school building that was saved by the FD. In May 2021 when the state dropped all Coof mandated they continued to mandate masks, canceled all non-worship events like church supper/fund raisers, well into 2022.
Anyway, they are/were gonna try to hire a consultant as they have realized each year they are pulling more funds from the endowment then they make on investment income, even before Biden’s stock market. They estimate 5-8 years before the endowment runs out and they can’t pay utilities. Yes, the endowment now paying for electricity, gas, etc.
I saw on their FB a while back how grateful the head minister was to sell the former office building they had and move in to a single leased floor in anther building.
I suspect it will be in the next 3-5 years you will begin to see local congregations run out of money and as a stop gap probably try to merge to keep them selves alive a few more years.
Get woke, go broke.
That’s quite a collapse. It’s a shame, too, because people once considered it worthwhile to go there. The old-fashioned liberal churches seemed pretty benign, and people could deal with them, but they lay down the foundation for the crazy stuff.
Freeper “lightman” referred me to an old Evangelical and Reformed Church hymnal, which I looked at on Internet Archive. The various prayers and services in there were beautiful and theologically-sound. It occurred to me what a different world we would have if the mainline Protestant churches hadn’t apostasized.
In this denomination, it is very loosely organized so each local church is basically running the way they want. The previous pastor, who retired a few years after the building was rebuilt after the fire, was always big into the community events. They hosted watch, was getting more people to the door outside a traditional worship service, and got more memberships and future active members.
That particular minister was a Liberal, but definitely kept that to himself in terms of his actual sermons. Since his retirement in the in term, and eventually settled ministers, each one of them was progressively more liberal, and each time the weekly attendance shrank. Out of desperation, they’ve basically restarted some of the traditional fundraisers they used to do, well tried to. Unfortunately, they don’t even have enough active members to bring many of them back so, in particular, the multipurpose room and kitchen sit basically unused, with the exception of Using a fully equipped commercial kitchen to brew a pot of coffee on Sunday mornings and maybe once a month some really light use, nowhere near it’s designed capacities
Looks like they doomed themselves by calling the wrong kind of ministers. Were they limited to calling ministers who were ordained in the UCC? (I know some churches accept ministers from other denominations.). If so, then maybe their choices were limited.
Where I grew up in southwestern Illinois, there are lots of old E&R churches in small towns. One of the larger and older ones left the UCC a few years ago. I checked their website and they seem solid as a rock theologically.
That’s a good question, and I have no idea. It very well could be a local church-by-chruch basis as the local congregation makes the decision on who to hire by a simple majority vote.
As a example, one near me was looking for a new minister and basically said all are welcome to apply, however we will only pick a openly gay one.
That makes perfectly good sense in Bizarro World. It wasn’t that long ago that Protestant congregations thought it desirable that their pastor (a man) be married (to a woman.)
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