[billiefan2000]

I agree that

Metropolitan Community Church of Omaha Nebraska

First Unitarian Church of Omaha Nebraska

Second Unitarian Church of Omaha Nebraska

did this as a publicity stunt.

[dangus]

>> Second Unitarian Church of Omaha Nebraska <<

The SECOND one? LOL! Now the Unitarians are making jokes in the naming of their churches! Well... besides calling them churches.

(Unitarians don’t in any way shape or form pretend to be Christians, except they name their gathering-places “churches.”)

“First Baptist,” “First Presbyterian,” etc. aren’t bragging rights asto who built the church. They are ways in which churches stake claim as being from the oldest denomination in a tradition. Since their denominations were always merging, splitting and changing their names, it was, they didn’t go by “American Baptist Church of Springfield” or “Presbyterian Church USA Church of Westmont.” It’s their way of saying, “if you’re a Presbyterian new to town, you probably want to come to this church, not that other church which believes who knows what.”

One of these days a Catholic or Orthodox pastor is going to get in a triumphalist mood and just stick up a sign, saying, “First Church. Period.”