[SoConPubbie]

"I’d respond with my own guarantee. The best way to destroy a faith is to abandon it. Just ask mainline Protestants. They’re no longer recognizably Christian, they’re prone (like the PCUSA) to embrace vile evils like abortion and anti-Semitism, and they conform to the culture and lose adherents by the hundreds of thousands. After all, why go to church when you can get the same sermon from the Sunday New York Times?"

I really detest over-generalizations.

Some mainline Protestants have walked away from their Christianity, not all. For every mainline protestant branch where an organization has walked away from God (and is decreasing in size dramatically as a result) there is another organization who has stayed true to the Gospel and is increasing at a much faster rate.

[Bryanw92]

>>Some mainline Protestants have walked away from their Christianity, not all. For every mainline protestant branch where an organization has walked away from God (and is decreasing in size dramatically as a result) there is another organization who has stayed true to the Gospel and is increasing at a much faster rate.

Exactly. The ELCA has caused Lutherans to move to the WELS and LCMS. The PCUSA has caused Presbyterians to move to the PCA. The members of the UMC who are faithful to the bible are talking about splitting the denomination. For every apostate denomination in mainline Protestantism, there is a mirror denomination. And the SBC and various non-denoms are picking up the rest of the faithful.

[narses]

In the Religion forum, on a thread titled Are Christians in the Midst of a ‘Social Secession?’, SoConPubbie wrote:

Some mainline Protestants have walked away from their Christianity, not all. For every mainline protestant branch where an organization has walked away from God (and is decreasing in size dramatically as a result) there is another organization who has stayed true to the Gospel and is increasing at a much faster rate.

In the Religion forum, on a thread titled Conservatives on the Supreme Court: All Catholic (vanity), verga wrote:

...you should also understand that here are almost no formal conservative evangelical/protestant churches. With the “decentralized authority” that you all so proudly tout when it is convenient it should be no surprise.

Catholicism has a stated position consistent with Conservatism. Baptists, Presbyterians, Anglicans all support gay marriage. Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians have women pastors. The list of inconsistencies with the Bible and Conservatism goes on and on...

Individual members may be Conservative to one degree or another, but none of the churches have an enforceable manifesto against abortion, Gay marriage, Euthanasia, etc....You all want the church of “Que sera sera” now live with the consequences.

(Minor corrections made by me.)

[xzins]

We could have different definitions of mainline. Mainline does NOT include Baptists, assemblies of God, etc.

Mainline Protestantism pretty much came out of the protestant reformation or were first generation progeny. We’re talking Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed, Presbyterian and their immediate progeny.