Posted on 07/12/2019 11:19:44 AM PDT by Morgana
The reason for her ouster is far more stimulating than any sermon this pastor could have delivered.
The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, the first woman to lead Manhattan’s famed Riverside Church, lost her lofty post amid complaints that she brought ministers and a congregant on a sex toy shopping spree and then gave one of them an unwanted vibrator as a birthday gift, The Post has learned.
On May 15, Butler allegedly took two Riverside assistant ministers and a female congregant to a sex shop in Minneapolis called the Smitten Kitten, during a religious conference, according to sources familiar with the out-of-town shopping excursion.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Oh my. Isn’t that one handsome.
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“spend $200 on a vibrator”
talk about throwing your money in a hole.
What a dildo...her decision really sucked.
The book Covert Cadre describes the cozy relationship between the Riverside Church leadership and the Soviet KGB during the 1960s and 70s.
Even their Wikipedia entry can't hide the ugliness that resides within that externally beautiful church.
This latest episode of pushing the envelope, so to speak, may not bring any kind of change to Riverside Church's underlying social doctrine but it should be a warning for those who are attracted to a church by its appearance, not knowing or caring what is taught within its walls.
Chances are, the next pastor will be no less radical than any of those occupying the pulpit since the eminent Harry Emerson Fosdick did almost 90 years ago.
Yes.
As in: "Oh God! I'm coming!"
Harry Emerson Fosdick advocated appeasement of Hitler, as many leftists/progressives did before Hitler and Stalin’s pact ended.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer visited Riverside in the thirties and was greatly displeased as they preached social justice but not the Gospel. He ended up spending most of his visit to the US teaching Sunday school at a black Abyssinian church in Harlem.
Riverside Church....the Conscience of America.
NOT!!!
According to Bonhoeffer the pastor who took part in an assassination plot against Hitler, Riverside was far gone as a church in the 30s preaching politics rather than the Gospel of Christ. The Union Seminary in town was as well.
That’s interesting. O’l John D had a reputation for being pretty buttoned down. And he was anything but a leftist.
LOL! I remember those skits!
In 2010 they played host to a bunch of loons including VIPS’ Ray McGovern …
https://juicyecumenism.com/2010/02/08/religious-truth-commission-to-examine-u-s-war-atrocities/
Ray’s group of truthers and leakers (Kwiatkowski, Cannistraro, Pat Lang, Sybil Edmonds, etc) joined the former Ambassador to Gabon, Joe Wilson, in trying to set up Dick Cheney for impeachment or resignation, but ended up only getting Scooter Libby. McGovern also writes for Russia Today. The church is also part of the Global Zero nuclear disarmament movement that Joe Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame is part of.
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.” (John 3:6)
I didn’t know it was possible to spend $200 on a vibrator.
= = =
I’ll sell you one for $2000.
The Lord tarries because He wants all to repent.
I’m amazed that these so-called pastors keep out perving each other lately.
Days of Noah and Days of Lot.
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