Poor churches! (crazy letter in my local paper)

[carrowsboy]

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781390138&path=%21editorials%21letters&s=1045855935005

Annual State of Church Arrives on Cue

Editor, Times-Dispatch: Following the State of the Union, I customarily write a letter addressing the state of the church.

Similar problems persist this year as of last. There are two wars being waged simultaneously: a war on terror and a war on religion. Mainline majority membership is far more conservative than mainline minority liberal leadership, resulting in divisive issues threatening denominational separation, schism, and alarming exodus downdraft.

President Bush stated in his address, "The State of the Union is confident and strong." In sharp contrast, the state of the church is near collapse, having been dealt devastating blows by sexual deviancy, pedophile priests and homosexual clergy, and by banning religious symbols and the Ten Commandments from schools and government buildings and all references to God and Jesus Christ silenced, including Christ from Christmas. There is concern throughout the denominations that change in the current structure is inevitable.

Where to begin? The most logical place is in the seminary, where seeds of theological liberalism are sown by liberal professors and bishops in impressionable minds of young seminarians. Here they take root along with pluralism, diversity, and inclusion, putting the church in a spiritual and moral free-fall. Liberalism is a perennial, re-seeding itself into an ongoing crop of theological left-wing activism. Where to end?

Let us join hands and pray for crop failure, big-time! God bless the church and God bless America. Mary Helen Smith. richmond.

[opiate69]

1. Those poor, oppressed jackasses.

"I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do."
-D. Dale Gulledge

[The Zanti Regent]

2. I dare that idiot to name ONE "liberal" school of theology.

Especially when it comes to the Southern Fried Baptists and the ASSemblies of Gawd. Name one if you can Mary.

You can't so go back to your TBN and watch the backward masking crap they spit out, and ignore Paul Crouch's kinky side that was exposed by the LA Times...

[givemebackmycountry]

3. aaaaawwww......that's too bad.

But just out of curiosity, what kinda "blows" we talkin' about on the sexual deviancy angle?

These nutjobs what it all and they want everyone to be JUST LIKE THEM.

I think I'll go ram a dildo up my butt in a salute to "sexual deviancy"


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

S-E-X-U-A-L

D-E-V-I-A-N-C-Y-

S-C-A-R-Y

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[CoffeeCat]

4. Oh booo hooo...blame the failures of the Church on the liberals...

Excuse me, Mary Helen Smith--but the Church is in trouble because of the hypocrisy and evil of some church leaders.

Catholic higher ups covered up sexual abuse of children and created new victims when they shuffled these pedophiles into new communities.

Some church members are leaving because of radical dogma that doesn't seem to fit with Christ's teachings. Catholic dogma teaches that those who aren't Catholic go to hell...and that birth control is a sin. Many Catholics find it hard to negotiate such absurdity into their spirituality. That's why they're leaving.

The Church isn't crumbling because some elementary school in Dayton refers to their winter musical play as the "Holiday Program" and not the "Christmas Program."

Your denial, Mary Helen Smith--is why things aren't going as well as you'd like. Reality is a positive thing Mary. It's time to start facing it, instead of scapegoatting the liberals.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. I'm so tired

of people always blaming democrats and liberals. Don't they get it that THEY are in control? How can they blame us? I guess they were never taught to take responsibility for their own actions so they have to blame everybody else.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. Here is proof that the state of "The Church" is no where near collapse:

Open the yellow pages in ANY city in this country. Look up "Atheist Organizations" or "Secular Humanist" groups. You wont find ANY! (OK, maybe you will in the big 4 cities) Now look up "Churches". In big city phone books there are PAGES AND PAGES of them!!


Yeah. The churches have it SO FUCKING ROUGH in this country whilst the 10 - 20 % of Americans that claim no religious proclivities take over.


The horseshit piles up so fast from these nutjobs it takes a hydraulic cherry picker to stay above it.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. War on religion?

Only because they put it out there in people's faces. I'm Christian and it isn't bothering me. They need to just worship in peace. Isn't that why we came here to this land in the first place? :eyes: And Christ wasn't even born in December more then likely from my studies. The Bible doesn't even mention the time of the year he was born. Just events leading up to his birth. :eyes:

[ComerPerro]

8. I say, if someone's faith can be rattled by a few gay marriages and

by not being completely backed and endorsed by the Government, then they never really had any faith to begin with.

[justgamma]

9. For God's Sake!!!

We wouldn't want to teach "pluralism, diversity, and inclusion" How antiChristian are those??
Lord help me understand these people.