Posted on 08/17/2006 6:31:09 AM PDT by hiho hiho
When I was in undergraduate school and became president of a national sorority, I was stunned to realize that I was required to ask new pledges if they were of Negro, Oriental, or Jewish extraction. If they were, we could not pledge them. Shortly after graduating, I resigned from the sorority to protest that discrimination.
What stirring bravery -- resigning from the sorority AFTER graduating.
Yeah, she has chosen Satan and his false religion of "goodness".
By all means, Marge, it can't be true if it doesn't "meet your spiritual needs."
The liberal mind drips with narcissism.
I was thinking that, myself ... although I suppose in a small, rural, Southern, United Methodist church, you'd be somewhat likely to find traditional hymns, an occasional reference to the Trinity and the Crucifixion, and a straight, married pastor.
The United Methodists are huge sponsors of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights - which I think has now morphed into the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice . . . that sounds so much better than out-and-out infanticide, I guess.
If you REALLY wanna get sick, click on the link, "Prayerfully Pro-Choice: Worship Resources" - there may even be a Prayer of Blessing for Cranium-Crushing Forceps or a Fetus-Removal Vacuum System.
And the George Augustus Stallings schismatic Imani Temple used to be headquartered at the UMC offices in DC.
So much for reciprocal ecumenism with the Roman Catholic Church!
Of course our (RC) nitwits permitted the ordination of UMC pastors in - of all places - the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception back in 1981, on the same weekend that Catholics nationwide were being asked to sign petition sheets in favor of the Hatch Amendment! When the absurdity - not to say hypocrisy of this - was pointed out to the Archbishop of Washington, DC, his secretary, soon-to-be-Bishop of Charlotte John Donoghue sent the standard, condescending, "ecumenical sensitivity" form letter back to anyone who complained.
All of which is to say, it's amazing to find such a denomination not liberal enough for Granny!
APOSTASY ALERT
This occurred to me, too. Why does Marge think it important for us to know about some trite reasons why her church no longer serves her needs. Others change churches without so much as a peep.
It's not difficult to imagine the life of a college administrator is one of constant anti-christian pressure. Perhaps after years of humiliation and embarassment, she has turned and is just chanting the mantra of the dark side.
Unintentional irony alert.
It's that last clause that makes it even more insipid and shallow.
What a bunch of hooeeeeeey.
"The words stick in my throat when I try to sing the dated hymns depicting heaven as up and hell as down, God as Father, and Christian soldiers marching onward. I find it difficult to worship what my mind rejects."
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What a great post! A perfect illustration of how all this drivel and mortal relativism crept into our churches.
Obviously, she doesn't know what it is to be a Christian, since all this stuff is so "dated".
And that is exactly what she needs... we need to remember her to The Lord.
Hoss.
Some of us at her age loose it and some of us gain it.
Pray for her loss.
In the words of one of their hymns, "Humanists, Humanists, Humanists are we..."
I have to admit, this was not what I expected when I clicked the link.
From a Simpsons episode: "Mormons. Mormons is the correct answer."
Baaahbl bulievin' church.
"She never mentions prayer."
Because she would not know who to pray to.
Wow, it only took this woman 78 years to figure out that she is not a Christian.
But she couldn't be troubled to resign at the time....
Looks like she hasn't changed all that much in the intervening 50+ years.
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