[PGR88]

They can remove the Cross right after they shut-down.

[ecomcon]

GW Bush’s “Christianity”.

[Salman]

... devoted to jointly training Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Jain clergy. ...

I wonder what sort of Jewish "clergy" would be trained there?

[mj1234]

alright!!- just in time for Easter!

The NEW moneychangers in the Temple!

[Mercat]

I gave up on the Methodists years ago. Mr. Mercat was raised Methodist so when we got married, I tried to get him interested in going again. He was not but a few years later, the Easter after his father died, we took his mother to Easter services. The lady minister did not, in the entire service, mention Jesus or the Resurrection. Now, last Saturday, we went to a small central Kansas town for a funeral. It was in a lovely Methodist Church with a marvelously timbered roof, stained glass windows and a full pipe organ. That lady minister was quoting scripture and praying to Jesus with a radiant look on her face which told me that she was a truly righteous person. So there are pockets of faith.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

About 10 years ago, I heard a “mainline” Methodist minister say that even he had doubts about the divinity of Christ. I think he was saying it to try to comfort someone but I took it as a really bad sign and a horrible thing for him to say. Other Methodist churches I attended were more interested in food drives and putting on dinners than teaching the Word. I knew it was only a matter of time before “mainline” liberal Methodist churches shut down.

[Boogieman]

“After recently facing some financial challenges, the seminary decided to more or less literally sell itself for $50 million to a large donor who helped transform it from a Christian seminary into Claremont Lincoln University, devoted to jointly training Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Jain clergy.”

What profit it a man to gain the whole world.... ?

[Tugo]

Burn the place down.

[John O]

The united methodists haven’t been Christian for years. Like all the old liberal mainline denominations, they are dying a slow death as Christains seek to worship with other Christians (that is, at denominations that still follow the bible) and non-Christians don’t really show up for worship at all.

The most conservative (Bible believing) denominations are thriving while the liberals are dying on the vine.

How odd: Do it God’s way and prosper or do it man’s way and die. Who’d a saw that coming?!

[beethovenfan]

The “great falling away” continues....

[Salvation]

**Methodist Seminary Ponders Removing Cross from Chapel**

**Claremont Lincoln University, devoted to jointly training Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Jain clergy.**

HUH? And what does the Bible say is someone is ashamed of Christ?

[cashless]

The Wesley are spinning in their grave. They might as well take the cross down. As predicted, it has become an offense. If you abandon the Scriptures, these results are to be expected. Contrary to popular belief, there ARE MORAL ABSOLUTES and if you ignore them or discard them, you should not be dismayed at the.resulting consequences. Men change. GOD NEVER CHANGES.

[pgkdan]

The fact that this discussion could ever even be had is evidence that the place should be burned to the ground.

[loveliberty2]

"Harris did say that she appreciates ways in which the cross has been itaken up by liberation theologians' and liked it as a symbol of 'the guy who got the crap beat out of him for saying what he believed in.' But the Claremont official’s words were rather telling."

". . . the 'guy'"????

[libstripper]

Calling Islam a "non-Christian religion" is a real howler. In fact, it's a virulently anti-Christian religion, as can be seen from its constant denunciation of "polytheists," a term that is often and, indeeed, primarily appllied to Christians due to the Christian belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Also, just look at Islam's continuing history of bloody conquests, almost all of which were directed at Christian areas. Indeed, the entire mideast is the area where Cristianity arose and which was initially converted to Christianity. Many other religions, such as Judiasm and Budism, don't agree much with Christianity, but none of them has conducted a 1,400 year jihad against Christianity and Christians.

[Secret Agent Man]

i hardly believe God is pleased His children are sharing the same worship area with those that do not consider Him, God. I can’t see any way He’d think this was the right choice to make.

Can’t serve God and mammon (money, idols, etc)