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Presbyterians choose “Local Option”

June 23, 2006 |

GetReligion has an interesting post on the Presbyterian’s move this week to give churches a “local option” on whether or not to believe the Bible.

This reminds me of the attempt to solve slavery through “popular sovereignty” (Stephen Douglas’s panacea), and of Abraham Lincoln’s rejoinder that the nation could not long exist half slave and half free.

Neither the Presbyterian church nor any other church can long exist half Christian and half liberal.


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  1. Tara on October 3, 2006 12:16 am

    In a world where violence dominates the news headlines, our young servicepeople perish in staggering numbers each day, oil prices soar to record highs, education efforts stagger, and smug politicians soak up their profits in all of their holier-than-thou glee, it is hard to believe that anyone can take the conservative religious agenda seriously. Who seriously cares whether or not gay couples marry, or whether or not a woman chooses to abort her baby in the early stages? These are choices - choices that you may choose to abstain from. I think that it is high time that people start minding their own business and realize what “world problems” actually entails. As a 28 year-old woman with a master’s degree and several years worth of adjuncting experience at the college level, I live at the poverty level, unable to receive health care and thousands of dollars in debt due to student loans. And I am fortunate compared to so many people my age; our priorities are in the wrong place and I pray that our undereducated, brainwashed society comes to their senses as the next election nears. We’re in a crisis, and it isn’t a partisan dilemma. I will work to help elect any Republican, Democrat, Christian, Jew, or Musilm who is brave enough to stand up for what really matters in this country before it is too late.

    Tara

  2. Conservative Culture on October 3, 2006 7:08 am

    Two topics. The church’s own stand on Jesus’ teaching and the political problems. The very problem you recognize in society is what has happened in the churches. No one brave enough to stand up for the truth. Also few still able to recognize the truth.

    But I don’t share your evaluation that the American people are uneducated and ignorant. I don’t believe that information is the problem. The anchor which held society in place has been cut. We are now being blown and tossed like a wave of the sea.

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