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I'm shocked to see the Syrian Church of Antioch on there. They can trace their roots back to the Apostles, and St. Peter had a role in founding that church before he ever went to Rome and became martyred there.

I left the Methodist church over the abortion issue in 1990. Reflecting on that, would you believe that as teens in the group I belonged to they brought a hypnotist in for entertainment? I didn't remember it until a few years ago. Some of the kids in the front watching would fall into a trance, and the hypnotist walked over and "waked them up". remember his warning us beforehand that it could happen.

Luckily I wasn't one of them and didn't think anything of it at the time. But it made me feel uncomfortable, and I doubt I ever told my parents about it or what their reaction would have been, think my father would have not have liked that at all, and he wasn't even outwardly religious. Anyone who has the power to put you in a state where you forfeit your free will for no good cause should be suspect imo.

There was a lot more, will leave it at that.

“I left the Methodist church over the abortion issue”

This was one of MANY issues of why we left. The straw was dealing with the attitude of leadership over occultic practices. Apparently, visiting a psychic wasn’t a problem and if channeling leads to solace...well....have at it, then. The New Age is very huge....and no one questions anything from the pulpit.

http://www.rcrc.org/
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is stomach-turning.