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Preachers Who Don't Believe in God
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Posted on 03/02/2011 12:26:33 PM PST by pinochet
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This is an increasing trend in America. Preachers are retaining their jobs for the salaries and benefits that they receive. There are even Bishops who openly proclaim their atheism e.g. Bishop Spong of Newark.
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:26:35 PM PST
by
pinochet
To: pinochet
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:28:01 PM PST
by
hadaclueonce
("Endeavor to persevere.")
To: hadaclueonce
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:29:03 PM PST
by
hadaclueonce
("Endeavor to persevere.")
To: pinochet
For some pastors who are the sons or daughters of ministers the “calling” is more the “family business”. And like most family businesses there’s usually a steep drop off from the first generation to the next.
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:31:25 PM PST
by
katana
To: pinochet
The Church needs to get it's backbone back, and excommunicate these people, both Catholic and Reform.
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:33:02 PM PST
by
Clock King
(Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
To: pinochet
Any Unitarian doesn’t. You never ever hear the name God or Jesus in a Unitarian “church”.
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:35:09 PM PST
by
Emperor Palpatine
(Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
To: Emperor Palpatine
They do not call them churches but rather fellowships.
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:39:53 PM PST
by
Humvee
(Beliefs are more powerful than facts - Paulus Atreides)
To: pinochet
I have never understood why non-believers bother to go to church.
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:45:14 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: pinochet
Bishop Pickering from Caddyshack?
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:46:09 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
To: Emperor Palpatine
“Howl, snarl, bite, ye Calvinistic, ye Athanasian divines, if you will; ye will say I am no Christian; I say ye are no Christians, and there the account is balanced. Yet I believe all the honest men among you are Christians, in my sense of the word.” John Adams
I think you mean Unitarian Universalist ,from the Ralph Waldo Emerson vein.
To: Sans-Culotte
Isn’t that the path for belief for many?
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:46:59 PM PST
by
Melas
To: pinochet
I knew a minister like that — a Marxist.
To: pinochet
They are isolated and, in some cases, unable to confide even in their own families, for fear of what their newfound disbelief may do to their relationships and their pocket books.
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posted on
03/02/2011 12:48:35 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
To: Sans-Culotte
I think sometimes the Holy Spirit leads folks to where they need to be at a particular time. Many believers were non-believers seconds before becoming believers. That some would be led to attend a church service on occasion shouldn’t be a total surprise.
To: Larry Lucido
I think the OP was talking about people who were once Christians who no longer believe, why they still go through the motions. There could be a lot of reasons: keeping peace in the family, because that’s where their social network is, business connections, avoiding ostracism, etc. I would bet the percentage of true unbelievers in the church would astound us if we knew the real number.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:01:01 PM PST
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balch3
To: pinochet
As Jesus teaches us, the tares (weeds) grow along with the wheat until the day of the harvest. The reaper will know which are to be gathered into his barns and which are cast into the fire. (Matthew 13:24-30)
To: Emperor Palpatine
You never ever hear the name God or Jesus in a Unitarian church.
Our local Unitarian church constantly bashes both
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:11:42 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: pinochet
I heard a Presbyterian "pastor" state that "we have to get away from this idea that Jesus was God" from the pulpit of his church.
Four years later he was dead at age 67 from a horrible wasting disease.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:12:48 PM PST
by
Dr. Thorne
(Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
To: Melas
Isnt that the path for belief for many?I don't mean someone who goes "to check it out" and eventually becomes a believer. I mean guys like Bishop Spong who flat-out did not believe that Christ rose from the dead; and yet he was a bishop.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:12:57 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: Sans-Culotte
That's why it is essential to believe in the Total Depravity of Man. That mankind is Spiritually Dead due to the fall.
If one does not see how bad the fall was for them, then they cannot appreciate what God has done for them and their calling by Him.
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posted on
03/02/2011 1:17:43 PM PST
by
sr4402
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