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To: Morgana
A number of years ago, my mother in law wanted to try visiting a nearby United Methodist Church. I tried to tell her what they were about, but she still wanted to go. She, my wife, and I sat through as much as we could take and then at an opportune moment made a hasty retreat to the exit. I don’t think we lasted for more than about 20 minutes of their so-called “service.”

She was so appalled she wanted to get out of the parking lot before anyone who knew her could happen to see her there. It was weird and bizarre all the way around, and felt more like some dull community meeting than a church service. The first thing I noticed when we entered was that most of the people were not very friendly, nor did they seem particularly happy, and seemed kind of like soulless robots (in other words, they were liberals). The lobby was filled with a variety of materials related to different leftist political causes. There was nothing to even suggest that you had just entered a church. The “pastor” was a woman (so not a pastor). She wore some kind of gay rainbow sash around her neck, and her message wasn’t a Biblical sermon, but rather some warmed-over “I’m OK, you’re OK” self-help psychobabble. The “worship music” before that was equally vague and bland. I believe it might have mentioned “God” once or twice, but no mention of Jesus was made by anyone in any context while we were there, and nothing approaching a biblical message was presented.

One of the creepiest things was how the relatively sparse group of congregants sang these “worship” songs in such a monotone, unenthusiastic, robotic way. The one thought that I couldn’t get out of my head was why they even bother playing church, when it’s obvious that they’re all non-believing leftists who only want to use their “church” to promote their political agenda.

10 posted on 05/09/2022 12:38:01 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman
As a Methodist PK, I saw/sensed the presence of this spirit in the looming slide of the Methodist Discipline way back in the 1950s. I was not born anew in the Spirit until 1971 at the age of 34. For some reason, my Methodist-ordained Dad maintained allegiance to this denomination until the moment that he passed on.

Me? No!

16 posted on 05/09/2022 6:21:45 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: noiseman

I have a lot of family members who were old school methodists. They gotta be turning over in their graves to know what happened to their denomination.

I for one am shocked to see what is going on that there, truly sad.


18 posted on 05/09/2022 2:11:44 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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