Church Leaders' Anti-War Message Fails in the Pews

Newhouse News Service ^ | 4/10/03 | Mark O'Keefe

[DeathfromBelow]

the open door - open minded church

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I'm going by my experience of the Pennsylvania Friends. They seemed to feel most strongly about minding their own business.

[AppyPappy]

religious claptrap cluttering up the news forums....spare us

You are spared, my child.

[Clint N. Suhks]

The Rev. Robert Edgar holds a photo of an Iraqi Christian while arguing that children are the most innocent victims of the war against Iraq.

Should we not have bombed Berlin knowing innocent's were going to die? How many innocent's will die by Sadam’s hand if he were left in power?

[Roughneck]

Sadly, the churches in America today have become nothing but "feel good" places. The church no longer understands condemnation of sin, or righteous anger, they only know that, to fill the coffers, they must "tickle" the ears of the parishoners.

[sinkspur]

How do you get a degree in Christian Theology without an indepth coverage of the culture and society in which Jesus lived and taught in?

They've forgotten it, or never cared about it in the first place. Jesus was man as well as God, so what He said must be considered in both a human and divine context.

[peeve23]

If they have a religious forum then they should stick this stuff back there. There's a place for serious news and then there's this stuff.

[AppyPappy]

That explains why you pulled it up and commented twice.

Just what we need. Another Net Cop.

[mabelkitty]

This is why I don't go to church.

I'm a Christian. I don't need to hand over my mind and my individual power to a middle man. The Bible says so.

[peeve23]

?????

[mabelkitty]

I have a problem with the Baptists and their association with Bill Clinton.

They never condemned his lying on the Bible.

I can't support that.

[altura]

I'd have to say it's more the leadership than the people.

Of course, we are somehow responsible for the leadership, I guess.

But then Bill Clinton was president for 8 years.

[tiki]

Yep

[Prince Charles]

But the Rev. Robert Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches

The NCC is a well-known socialist organization. It is reflexively anti-American.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

His congregation's pastor didn't. However, I remember him being roundly condemned by other Baptist Pastors.

[tiki]

I go to church to worship God not to discuss politics. I don't care if my priest is for or against the war or any other political matter as long as he discusses it in his private time and doesn't try to foist his political beliefs on me.

[gcruse]

A true prophet is one who thinks he is on God's side.
A false prophet is one who thinks God is on his side.

Nah.  A prophet who thinks he is a prophet because
of something he thinks is just another nut.

[dighton]

You are spared, my child.

Hast thou gone squishy? Cast him into the outer darkness.

;-)

[peeve23]

I think appy's doesn't like doubters on these threads.

That proves it's religion. And should be on the religion forum. LOL.

[freepersup]

open hearts open minds open doors... here's one the UMC left out open eyes I have reached the conclusion that that the UMC is beyond repair. I left this denomination and haven't looked back. They are apostate at the highest levels of administration. GO TO THEIR NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL WEBSITE and educate yourself. The UMC is one of the most liberal marxist socialist leftist denominations in America. An example of the latest PC madness infecting the UMC: small American flags were ordered removed from the dining room tables of Asbury Seminary in Kentucky because they were deemed offensive to some of the students.