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Atheist minister fighting United Church’s effort to fire her (WTF?!?!?)
The Globe and Mail ^ | 8/6/2015 | COLIN PERKEL

Posted on 08/06/2015 5:49:28 AM PDT by mkleesma

An ordained United Church of Canada minister who believes in neither God nor Bible said Wednesday she is prepared to fight an unprecedented attempt to boot her from the pulpit for her beliefs. In an interview at her West Hill church, Rev. Gretta Vosper said congregants support her view that how you live is more important than what you believe in. “I don’t believe in...the god called God,” Vosper said. “Using the word gets in the way of sharing what I want to share.”

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: atheist; grettavosper; minister
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To: jsanders2001; SaveFerris; Larry Lucido

I happen to have a very keen lesbian eye.


21 posted on 08/06/2015 6:14:15 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Bryanw92

Great points all.


22 posted on 08/06/2015 6:15:01 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: mkleesma

Just ask her this: So you think Allah is just a myth?

(crickets, crickets)


23 posted on 08/06/2015 6:16:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Gamecock

> I happen to have a very keen lesbian eye.

So do I. Just look for the ugly women with short / bulldyke hair that no man would be seen with. There you are...: )


24 posted on 08/06/2015 6:17:06 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: mkleesma

So she lied when she took her oath.

http://www.united-church.ca/beliefs/overview


25 posted on 08/06/2015 6:17:07 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: jsanders2001; Larry Lucido; SaveFerris

Those are easy.

There are also the attractive ones who spurned my advances, back in the day.


26 posted on 08/06/2015 6:19:33 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: mkleesma

Why believe in God when you can believe in the social gospel? (sarcasm)


27 posted on 08/06/2015 6:27:41 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: driftdiver
The United Church celebrates
*the marriage of same-sex couples

It's OK, the United Church obviously doesn't believe in God anyway. Not in any meaningful sense.

Let her sue. Let her stay.

28 posted on 08/06/2015 6:30:09 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God)
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To: Gamecock

> Those are easy.

There are also the attractive ones who spurned my advances, back in the day.

Just look for the “disconnected” detached from reality look on those types. A little harder but its not that hard to detect them by their behavior. They can also be hostile to men more so than the average woman. Of course a straight woman who’s married and fed up with her man after several years can almost act the same...lol


29 posted on 08/06/2015 6:33:06 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: mkleesma
The easiest way to kill something, be it an organism, or an organization, is from within. Just as a single virus or bacteria, that works its way into the body, can kill the body, a single individual can kill an organization if they work there way into the inside. And with our society moving towards not allowing organizations to defend themselves against those they do not agree with (or be classified as 'haters'), this is going to happen more often.


30 posted on 08/06/2015 6:33:26 AM PDT by MMaschin
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To: mkleesma
My guess is this was a pretty liberal church before she showed up and they thought it was a good idea to ordain her.

Once you uncouple from Biblical Truth you get what you get.

31 posted on 08/06/2015 6:33:35 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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** They can also be hostile to men more so than the average woman. **
32 posted on 08/06/2015 6:38:46 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: mkleesma
In other news: Bus Driver Goes Blind and Demands to Keep Job
Driver states, ”It is more important to care about the passengers than to actually be able to save them.
33 posted on 08/06/2015 6:39:20 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse OÂ’Leary)
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To: Gamecock

Just wait until the lights go out on that subway car.


34 posted on 08/06/2015 6:39:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: mkleesma

(Rev.?) Gretta Vosper

35 posted on 08/06/2015 6:40:16 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: P-Marlowe

After reading through their beliefs its apparent they believe in god and the bible when it makes them feel good.

So sad but I agree perhaps this turmoil will open the eyes of some to try a real church.


36 posted on 08/06/2015 6:44:51 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: jsanders2001

Shes been playing in the hatchet wound to long, lmao.


37 posted on 08/06/2015 6:59:26 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: Celtic Conservative

Even the Episcopalians recognize that when you leave the faith, you can’t lead it.

Episcopal minister defrocked after becoming a Muslim
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/02/muslim.minister.defrocked/index.html?iref=newssearch


38 posted on 08/06/2015 7:24:22 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: mkleesma

According to the article, there are only 50 members left. They need to withhold their donations to the church until she is forced to leave because she isn’t being paid.
I have seen several churches do just that, one to the point of being forced to close.


39 posted on 08/06/2015 7:34:42 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: mkleesma

According to the article, there are only 50 members left. They need to withhold their donations to the church until she is forced to leave because she isn’t being paid.
I have seen several churches do just that, one to the point of being forced to close.


40 posted on 08/06/2015 7:35:06 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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