Replies

It is too late. It is gone, right along with the conservative Lutheran Church in which I grew up.

My I implore you to learn all you can about the National Council of Churches. This ugly group is all about promoting Communisim/Socialism and every other left wing agenda you can think of.

For everyone, here is the list of "churches" that belong to the National Council of Churches. They are not churches at all--they are nothing more than a liberal wing of the radical Democrat party.

• African Methodist Episcopal Church
• The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
• Alliance of Baptists
• American Baptist Churches in the USA
• Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
• Church of the Brethren
• The Coptic Orthodox Church in North America
• The Episcopal Church
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Friends United Meeting
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
• Hungarian Reformed Church in America
• International Council of Community Churches
• Korean Presbyterian Church in America
• Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
• Mar Thoma Church
• Moravian Church in America Northern Province and Southern Province
• National Baptist Convention of America
• National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
• National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
• Orthodox Church in America
• Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA
• Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
• Polish National Catholic Church of America
• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
• Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
• Reformed Church in America
• Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada
• The Swedenborgian Church
• Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America
• United Church of Christ
• The United Methodist Church

I'm shocked to see the Syrian Church of Antioch on there. They can trace their roots back to the Apostles, and St. Peter had a role in founding that church before he ever went to Rome and became martyred there.

I left the Methodist church over the abortion issue in 1990. Reflecting on that, would you believe that as teens in the group I belonged to they brought a hypnotist in for entertainment? I didn't remember it until a few years ago. Some of the kids in the front watching would fall into a trance, and the hypnotist walked over and "waked them up". remember his warning us beforehand that it could happen.

Luckily I wasn't one of them and didn't think anything of it at the time. But it made me feel uncomfortable, and I doubt I ever told my parents about it or what their reaction would have been, think my father would have not have liked that at all, and he wasn't even outwardly religious. Anyone who has the power to put you in a state where you forfeit your free will for no good cause should be suspect imo.

There was a lot more, will leave it at that.