Posted on 03/03/2006 4:15:06 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
AMERICAN CHURCH OFFICIALS pleaded for forgiveness for the sins of the United States last week--from the Iraq War, to Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Accord, to the racism exposed by Hurricane Katrina, to economic exploitation, and for the more general American sin of idolatry.
The clerics were representing 34 Protestant and Orthodox denominations in America at the Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
"Our leaders turned a deaf ear to the voices of church leaders throughout our nation and the world, entering into imperial projects that seek to dominate and control for the sake of our own national interests," lamented the apologetic Americans. "Nations have been demonized and God has been enlisted in national agendas that are nothing short of idolatrous."
The Geneva-based WCC, which includes 340 churches totaling 550 million members, has been governed by leftists for decades. About 25 percent of the world's Christians belong to Protestant or Orthodox communions in the WCC. Thanks largely to leadership by leftist Europeans, the WCC long ago abandoned traditional Christian notions of ecumenism and evangelism in favor of radical liberation theologies that demonized the West, capitalism, and even Christianity. (Perhaps most famously, the WCC grudgingly refused to criticize the Soviet bloc during the final decades of the Cold War, while supporting and sometimes actually funding Soviet backed insurgencies.)
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Where are the Seperation of Chuch and State clowns now?
Pack your bags & get your sorry self over to France, you ingrate.
Does anyone still have the illusion that they are Christian?
This is an example of why I never go to church any more.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Who are the US WCC delegates?
The Dixie Chicks?!
I guess that's as good an excuse as any.
Better yet, where's the IRS? The branches of said "church" in this country ought to have their tax free status reevaluated.
A Google of World Council Churches communism brings up some interesting stuff.
They are dedicated to the destruction of the US Constitution and the creation of a socialistic world.
It is one of the major reasons why I left the ELCA and moved to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
*****"Our leaders turned a deaf ear to the voices of church leaders throughout our nation and the world, entering into imperial projects that seek to dominate and control for the sake of our own national interests," *****
Its no wonder that our leaders turned a deaf ear to these clowns, if this is the crap they are spouting.
Not I!
Wow. What a remarkable specifically vague list of church names they've put forth. The uninformed, looking at that list, would assume that it represents the vast majority of denominations of Christianity, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Not a good excuse for lack of church attendance. Just find you a church that doesn't support the stupid WCC. There are plenty who do not.
Yeah, every Church I ever attended is full of hypocritical sinners.
If they can't get their act together someone needs to do it for them.
Yeah, every Church I ever attended is full of hypocritical sinners.
If they can't get their act together someone needs to do it for them.
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1 - The church exists for sinners, not pure-as-the-driven-snow type like yourself.
2 - The non-churched world is also full of hypocritical sinners.
3 - The "someone" of whom you speak is the Lord and He is working full time to achieve just that.
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