Hat tip The Blaze and Nancy
I was hoping when I posted a negative article about the British Methodist Church and its opposition to Israel that their stupidity did not extend to American shores. How wrong I was. Back in March 2011 Rev. John Calhoun of the UMC was looking at the Arab Spring through rose colored glasses. What he saw was an emerging sea of Arab democracy with only tiny little Israel blotting the view.
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As I peruse more recent editions of this newsletter, it is clear that the UMC Board has a progressive world view on many issues.
I wonder how the naive Rev. Calhoun feels now. Hopefully, he is now seeing the world right-side up. I rather doubt it, however.
I guess I will have to drop the last vestiges of my identification as a Methodist. Up to now, I merely considered myself a Protestant (My mom was technically a Methodist). Though married to a Catholic, I never converted to Catholicism and stopped going to Catholic Church when the pedophilia issue was heating up. I turned off from the Baptists after a bad experience putting our son in a Baptist school. They seem to think that only Baptists go to heaven. Now I have crossed off the Presbyterians and the Methodists. What's left for me?
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Find a church that actually teaches from the Bible. Extra-biblical rituals and social doctrines feel-good frosting on the cake, but the teachings of Jesus and Paul get to the cake, the essential Christianity. Yes, we should love our enemies and care for the poor, but we should also have a firm foundation of faith and practice. That helps sort out the truth from the propaganda, something the Methodists apparently are unable to do. "You will know a tree by its fruit." (Luke 6:44)
"What's left for me?"
Scientology.
Uh, no thanks.
You could check out the Cosimanian Orthodox Church, but its theology is a difference brand of cynicism from yours.
Alternatively, you could found the Fousian Orthodox Church of True Believing Acolytes of Israel.
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