[SquirrelKing]

This is an older article [2004] but it did not turn up in search.

I am amazed at this - but hardly surprised. As far as I can tell [from making phone inquiries and talking with friends of mine from Charlotte, this relationship still exists. I'm sure it is touted as "progressive" and the picture of tolerance - but it boggles my mind to think of this occurring. Especially when I can only imagine the reaction of the local Imam would be to me requesting to establish a Christian school in the basement of their mosque.

[Vaquero]

Sleeping with the enemy alert!

[originalbuckeye]

The Left.......giving our country away with both hands.

[Tax-chick]

According to congregational data posted by the Presbyterian Church (USA), Caldwell Memorial had 129 members at the end of 2002, an average worship attendance of 27 and an average Sunday school enrollment of 10 that year.

Islam is not the real problem for these folks.

[dead]

You want to sell your church identity for some islamic coin, you do what they tell you to do.

Give unto Allah that which is Allah's.

[2banana]

A whole 27 people attending? Is this one of the Presbyterian Churches that is gay happy and socialist happy?

[Nancee]

This infuriates me!

How have we come to this??

Nancee

[meandog]

At the insistence of the Islamic school and with the acquiescence of Caldwell's leaders, two large crosses were removed and stained glass windows with Christian symbols were covered up.

So much for the stated Islamic notion that Christians "are people of the book"~LOL!

[Edgerunner]

"McDonald told readers that the Arabic name of the God of Islam is Allah, and that Allah is 'basically the same God of Judaism and the God and Father of Christianity.'"

If this is true, why the cover up of the crosses? Isn't this the denial of Christ?

[kerryusama04]

I thought the Protestants took the crosses down a few hundred years ago. My, how time flies.

[concerned about politics]

With membership and contributions plummeting, the session of Caldwell Memorial Presbyterian Church voted unanimously in April to lease the congregation's largely unused gymnasium and education building to the Charlotte Islamic School

Man cannot love both God and money. Choose thou. Whom will you serve?

The collection plate has liberalized churches all over the world. Even the Catholic church has gone pro-sodomite. They're selling the souls of their congregations to the devil in exchange for cankered silver and gold.

[ichabod1]

It would be interesting to see what happens if the church decides not to renew the lease. At any rate, it's a dead church.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Hide it under a bushel

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Dhimmitude comes to Charlotte.

This pastor is a false shepherd, an apostate, and a traditor.

[pompelmous]

The fact that the church is leasing space is not the note worthy point. The real issue is the hijacking of mainstream religion by pseudo-clergy who really do not believe in church doctrine and immerse their lives and their congregations in ill conceived political causes.

On the Presbyterian front, from the ministers leading union strikes in California, to William Sloane Coffin's opposition to American foreign policy in the sixties, to the Reverend Fry's storing Blackstone Ranger's guns in the Presbyterian Church safe, to the existing Presbyterian policy of boycotting investment is Israeli companies, the church has not only ignored the spiritual needs of its flock but has alienated much of their lay leadership on driven them to alternative churches. This church has lost enough members that it cannot sustain itself as a viable congregation. Unlike Europe it is not because of demographic reasons, rather it is because the Presbyterian clergy has lost their sense of direction and mission.

[YellowRoseofTx]

There is soooo much wrong with this I don't know where to start

[dforest]

Don't show the Cross to Islamonuts and vampires.

[Niteranger68]

Charlotte is on its way to being the San Fagsisco of the East. If you live there, get the hell out and flip-off Parks Helms and Pat McCrory as you are leaving.

[metmom]

ping

[fredhead]

Here's one of the problems they are probably encountering. The demographics of the neighborhood where the church is located has probably changed. In the past, the church could sell the property (which the congregation purchased and built upon some time in the past) and move to an area where it could gather a congregation. The church to which I belong did this in 1955.

However, the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., after the merger of the northern and southern churches in 1983, now states that ALL church property belongs to the PC USA. If the congregation decides to relocate, the property reverts to the PC USA and the congregation gets NOTHING!!!!

Makes me think twice about contributing to the building fund at my Presbyterian church.

[The Great RJ]

I bet they would also lease space to satanic groups to perform human sacrifices all in the name of tolerance and diversity. Apparently they are a bit ignorant about Islam's true goals which include converting all Christians to Islam by the sword.