Posted on 08/07/2005 9:24:34 PM PDT by SmithL
Islamists by any other name....
Poppycock.
The call themselves mainline. Nothing like nominating yourself as the norm. Several links relate this movement to the 'confessing' church movement, which has been linked to liberal political views recently as well. I know very little of this movement other than what I have read.
They also seem to support, as a church:
gay/lesbian rights,
'living' wage,
inter-religious engagement,
peace in the Sudan (kudos for that one),
ministry for undocumented workers,
protecting ARNWR
This denomination also has a significant pacifist history among it's leaders up to and during WWII.
They claim LBJ and RR as members, but I found no confirmation of either.
Myself: I am concerned about any church that has such clearly political topics as resolutions during their annual convention. We cannot expect the government to stay out of our churches if our churches continue to insist on being directly involved in public policy.
These are definitely of the false church that we hear about in the last days! Good grief!
Are you buying into this propaganda? You listed liberal churches that have been infiltrated by folks with a different agenda than glorifying God.
I was a Southern Baptist. It's not what it once was. ...no more of that incrementally and increasingly Hellenist, increasingly anti-Jewish, socially libertine, ostensibly stoic crowd for me.
I thought the constant barrage of terror inflicted upon the Israelis by the formerly Jordanian Arabs did a darn good job of creating a psychological barrier to peace.
...Texas, then the Midwest (Ozarks). Many questions and much study moved me to change as the church of my youth also has changed (with regards to realignment of the Trinity, divorce and so forth). And yes, one local church will vary from another according to different regional cultures.
You might find the following interesting, BTW, even though it doesn't concern Southern Baptists...yet.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1362179/posts
Hail Mary (Protestants start taking Jesus' mother more seriously)
TIME ^ | Mar 14 05 | TIME
http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/covers/1101050321/story2.html
In other words, the Disciples of Christ organization (I cannot bring myself to call it a church) will not be happy until every Jew is crucified.
Do you mean "abstract facts" such as the broken bodies of Israelis who were killed by terrorists' bombs? The left sees the carnage as "abstract" because to them the Israelis have no right to exist. In such a way the Nazis tried to dehumanize their victims by referring to them as if they were referring to inanimate objects and not people. Thus did the "good" Nazi tell himself that what he was doing was little different from burning stacks of wood.
Here we see some leftists using Nazi-like language because their little minds are infected with the same hatred that drove the Nazis. Just when I was hoping that leftists had finally abandoned Stalinism I find that too many of them need to abandon Hitlerism as well.
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A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."
A Stab In The Heart [Video]
IsraelNationalNews - A Video on Gush Katif [Video]
The Nature Of Bruce ~
I'm glad someone understands this. I'm not nearly as devout as I should be, but my favorite prayer is "Dear G-d, please tell Abe Foxman to SHUT UP!"
"mainline Protestant denomination"?
I never heard of them before this, and I am involved in mainstream Protestant church affairs.
I hear that!
This Protestant has a view similar to yours. While their is a disagreement regarding the Messiah, the Jewish people are still covered by millenia of covenants still in force. G*d does not back out of His covenants.
My ELCA Lutheran pastor started preaching that crap one Sunday. I stopped going back and resigned from the council.
The first two sentences of your explanation are sophistry. The last sentence calls for the conversion of the Muslims to Christianity.
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