Out-of-the-mainstream beliefs about gay marriage and supposedly sexist doctrines are gutting old-line faiths.Mark Alexander
The accelerating fragmentation of the strife-torn Episcopal Church USA, in which several parishes and even a few dioceses are opting out of the church, isn't simply about gay bishops, the blessing of same-sex unions or the election of a woman as presiding bishop. It also is about the meltdown of liberal Christianity.
Embraced by the leadership of all the mainline Protestant denominations, as well as large segments of American Catholicism, liberal Christianity has been hailed by its boosters for 40 years as the future of the Christian church.
Instead, as all but a few die-hards now admit, all the mainline churches and movements within churches that have blurred doctrine and softened moral precepts are demographically declining and, in the case of the Episcopal Church, disintegrating. Liberal Christianity is paying for its sins by Charlotte Allen
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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God isn't PC and we can not just add and subtract what we wish. Life with no standards of morality would be a cesspool.
Mark,
I've recommended this article to one of my students. She is about to read your excellent book!
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Thank you! I hope she enjoys it.
Mussolini,
I am heartened that some churches, at least, have split from the humanistic churches.
Yes, and the humanistic churches are losing membership and attendance. I know several people who just split from their churches because of anti-Semitism within the church.
In truth, for several decades the social Gospel has permeated many of the mainstream denominations. The watering-down of the Gospel has resulted in moral relativism.
The Church of England is a pathetic joke! Even the MSM in their comedies mock it as an organ with no beleifs!
Say what you want about the Catholic Church, but at least they still beleive in something!
The CoE needs to shed its 'religious base' and become the leftist charitable NGO is truly is
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