CIVIL RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION: All things Christianity

[T.Lex]

If it is ever of use to anyone, I have a motion for summary judgment about the whole "we're a church- gvt. stay out of our business" thing that only needs to be updated with this latest case. Discounted for the holidays.

Scientific studies have shown it to be more effective than melatonin for inducing sleep!

 

[HoughMade]

Scientific studies have shown it to be more effective than melatonin for inducing sleep!

That's why I drafted a really good one about 10 years ago and have only been revising it since.

Wasn't extremely useful in a case where a local Macedonian Orthodox church was having an Easter party, some Serbian young people showed up and promptly won the lamb which was the door prize, prompting a fight in the parking lot wherein the young Serbs got beat up in tru Christian fashion....bruises on any and all cheeks and elsewhere... and the melee' was only broken up when some right thinking Macedonian youngster fired warning shots....then the Serb yutes sues the church for lax security....but I digress.

[this may be a case that, in Indiana, is only really "common" in the Region]

Y'know, representing churches over the years has produced some interesting cases, but I haven't done that in about 4 years.

 

[JettaKnight]

In before the latest news

Did you troll us all?

 

[2A_Tom]

It looks that way.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

The Pope abolishes the pontifical secret in cases of sexual abuse

 

[T.Lex]

Did you troll us all?

I think he was going to comment on how the mechanical printing press was going to democratize the study of the Bible.

 

[Brad69]

Well that decision only took about 2,000 years ?

 

[Dead Duck]

And about 100,000,000 altar boys too late.

 

[JettaKnight]

No one splits better than Protestants:
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/7936...announces-proposal-to-split-over-gay-marriage

Kind of makes the word "United" in their moniker ironic.


When only 71% of your membership believe in God, and only 37% think there are moral absolutes, this isn't terribly surprising.

Source: https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-denomination/united-methodist-church/

 

[2A_Tom]

Matthew 24:12“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

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[historian]

No one splits better than Protestants:
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/7936...announces-proposal-to-split-over-gay-marriage

Kind of makes the word "United" in their moniker ironic.


When only 71% of your membership believe in God, and only 37% think there are moral absolutes, this isn't terribly surprising.

Source: https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-denomination/united-methodist-church/

Better headline: "White Americans kick black Africans out of UMC"

 

[JettaKnight]

Better headline: "White Americans kick black Africans out of UMC"

Never thought about that. It'd be real interesting to see the racial makeup pre- and post- split.



The good news is that UMC can be free to worship their diest as they see fit, without all that pesky absolute nature, morality, and whatnot. This will help them attract the, "I like the tradition and social aspects of Christianity, but I don't like someone telling me what to believe or how to live" crowd.

PCUSA, ECLA, Episcopals, and UCC have a new competitor.

 

[historian]

Never thought about that. It'd be real interesting to see the racial makeup pre- and post- split.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/02/699506797/united-methodists-face-fractured-future

 

[historian]

Another good article and twitter thread on it.

https://twitter.com/markdtooley/sta...id-a-visit-from-ghost-of-episcopalians-future

https://www.getreligion.org/getreli...id-a-visit-from-ghost-of-episcopalians-future

 

[HoughMade]

No one splits better than Protestants:
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/7936...announces-proposal-to-split-over-gay-marriage

Kind of makes the word "United" in their moniker ironic.


When only 71% of your membership believe in God, and only 37% think there are moral absolutes, this isn't terribly surprising.

Source: https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-denomination/united-methodist-church/

I can tell who's running the show at the UMC now. The people who ignore the Bible keep the name and the "traditionalists" can leave....BTW, friends, it's not about tradition.

 

[historian]

Another take
https://timothytennent.com/2020/01/05/reflections-on-the-proposed-protocol-for-separation/

 

[Dead Duck]

You know....
This whole Methodist Church split issue is just gay.

 

[foszoe]

"Christianity--Proving Nuclear Fission since the 1500s"

Better headline: "White Americans kick black Africans out of UMC"

 

[ArcadiaGP]

****ed up, if true.

Christian school in Kentucky accused of expelling a freshman student after seeing an image of her celebrating her 15th birthday with a rainbow cake and multi-colored sweater.

Willing to consider the parents making up the reason.

 

[Dead Duck]

****ed up, if true.

Christian school in Kentucky accused of expelling a freshman student after seeing an image of her celebrating her 15th birthday with a rainbow cake and multi-colored sweater.

Willing to consider the parents making up the reason.

Remember when a Rainbow was just an arch of colors formed in the sky in certain circumstances, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere?

Ya... Me neither.