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....openly declaring one is a Christian, specifically a mainline Protestant, is asking to be stigmatized....

The hardest challenge for confessing one's faith appears to be for mainline Protestants. Measured by numbers and influence, mainline Protestants have taken a savage drubbing since the Second World War. Now, instead of comprising almost half of Canadians as they did in the 1950s, just 20 per cent of the population now identify as mainline Protestants. It doesn't boost their confidence at cocktail parties. As well, many United Church members, Anglicans, Lutherans and Presbyterians are in an awkward spot because they tend toward the political centre, or in many cases the liberal or progressive side of the spectrum.

1 posted on 12/15/2008 11:06:20 AM PST by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy

C & E’ers.


2 posted on 12/15/2008 11:11:05 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Alex Murphy

Well, either go to church today, or mosque in the future. Choice is yours, but one of the two will occur.


3 posted on 12/15/2008 11:15:16 AM PST by ScottinVA (islam IS the problem!)
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Mainline Protestants - such as members of the liberal United Church of Canada ...

The church of my youth ... I obviously wasn't paying attention because the liberal part left no impression on me whatsoever.

4 posted on 12/15/2008 11:15:52 AM PST by BluH2o
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As well, many United Church members, Anglicans, Lutherans and Presbyterians are in an awkward spot because they tend toward the political centre, or in many cases the liberal or progressive side of the spectrum.

Honestly, what are they worried about? Mainstream Protestantism in this day and age is nothing more than the pursuit of fashionable left wing social and political causes. It has nothing to do with Christianity, so they should feel right at home in secular cocktail parties and the like.

6 posted on 12/15/2008 9:15:57 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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