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And 3,040,000 hits on Catholic clown worship.

You guys invented it. Deal with it.

And again, for clarity’s sake, the Roman Catholic church is dwindling in the United States. Four times as many Roman Catholics leave Rome as those who join Rome.

http://pewforum.org/Faith-in-Flux%283%29.aspx

Clown Communion at the Westminster Presbyterian Church is your guys.

Four times as many Roman Catholics leave Rome as those who join Rome

Coming from a shrinking and nearly extinct OPC that is really funny.

How many actual Clown masses did you actually find versus how many were pages decrying it? I think that I saw half a dozen separate instances. How many Presbyterian churches have an active clown ministry that they brag about on their own web pages? How many OPC churches out of the dwindling handful left have clown worship and clown ministries?

I googled "clown mass" and got seven hits, by the way. And all of them were Boston Catholic Journal pages decrying the practice of a clown mass, yet not identifying their pictures as such. The website I posted to you clearly identified the pictures as Lutheran, posted the church sign above the clown worship, and had an active discussion on the page clearly identifying the participants as Lutheran. Look at the pictures. That's not Catholic in terms of architecture, the visible portions of the church including the altar, or the vestments.

You are wrong again.

You guys invented it. Deal with it.

We invented Presbyterian clown ministries and clown worship? And the Presbyterians appear to have more clown ministries than anybody else. Why is this?

And again, for clarity’s sake, the Roman Catholic church is dwindling in the United States. Four times as many Roman Catholics leave Rome as those who join Rome.

Izzat so? Let us look further into the report and see that Catholics make up roughly 24% of the entire US population. With the current US population at roughly 330,000,000, this means that we have about 79 million Catholics currently in the US. Let us say, for argument's sake that the Catholic Church in the US is stable in population and neither grows nor shrinks. Let us do some calculations.

When the US population was 200 million, the Catholic percentage would have been 40%. When the US population was 150 million, the Catholic percentage would have been 53%. Dr E., are you trying to tell us that Catholics once formed a majority of the population in the US? Or are you being unclear and getting it wrong yet again?

All the data that I've seen has put the Catholic percentage of the total population at about the 24% level for many decades, and that means that as the country has grown in population, so has the Church, along with it.

The Church is not dwindling. Telephone booth cults are. With the demise of the Schullers, yet another corrupt and theologically dead Reformed pastor bites the dust...