Posted on 04/10/2020 7:22:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Leading the pack were many of the megachurches where mega-egos wanted to be mega-loved.
Codependency is a corrosive personality feature, frequently found in pastors
Catholic Church here in Ohio reduced to a wedding Mass with a grade school girl as the altar-boy who then, along with the so-called priest, passed out Communion. I was outraged.
The church is not bricks and mortar. We (Christians) are the church - the bride of Christ.
Maybe they are letting God fight their battles for them.
The Churches kept taking the financial “assistance”...kind of like honey on a bear trap...and allowed the “benefactor” to exact certain controls...
There is only one consistent and effective fighter on the “Right”...and we all know who that is.
It’s the High Holy Days for many religions. And too many secular powers are dictating that the religious not gather for a day to celebrate a religious “gathering” that is integral to their religion. We are turning into a nation of Sheeple, letting the “powers that be”, many of whom do not have our best interests at heart, dictate the minutiae of our lives. I for one am thoroughly sick of it.
One day this nightmare destruction of our way of life and our economy is going to come to an abrupt end, and that day is soon if President Trump has something to do with it, and he does. It may very well happen all at once. Does that mean the next day when people gather throughout our Country again, that suddenly all at once, it is all right to once again gather, because that is exactly what is going to happen. Not okay one day, okay the next.
Right now we are all being channeled into the few places that are still open, such as the grocery stores as we must eat, right? So we are herded all together into places like Walmart and the like, where we can all infect each other or catch the virus off of all of the stocked food/supplies on the shelves where the virus can live for hours. What fools we are to think that by just wearing a mask, or avoiding each other like the plague is going to save us all from the virus when their is a multitude of ways one can contract it.
Our Country, just like all the other countries around the world, will have to once again mill about with our fellow man, as no economy can sustain closing down for months on end. Let the virus play itself out, as all of them do, take necessary precautions in your own lives to minimize its effects to you and your loved ones, but for heaven sakes don’t destroy your own Country, cause infinite more pain to your fellow man by destroying livelihoods, causing physical and mental pain to so many, and in the end, life will go on anyhow and we will have to get back to some sense of normalcy.
People die, most of them old and/or with other underlying ailments; you can’t save everyone while destroying even more people in the process. I am right in the category of those most at risk, older, I have co-morbidities (what an awful concept); I’m right in the ballpark of one who if infected could have a very bad go of it. But I refuse to whine, I have absolutely no desire to ruin our Country for the rest of us in order to save my own hide. I’ll take that risk in order that the Country as a whole doesn’t sink into a Great Depression, with all of its attendant problems, both physical and mental.
Good grief folks, stiffen up those spines and stop being led around by the nose by the “alleged” experts such as Fauci and Birx who are Clinton/Obama lovers with an agenda, and a bunch of models that are proven wrong over and over again. While the MSM/Dems/fascists scare the heck out of what is an increasingly willing to be led around by the nose populace. I for one refuse to subscribe further to such submissive cowering. I will fight for our freedom from those that are using the coronavirus as an excuse to terrorize, bully, and misuse their power in order to control and further subjugate us.
This is not the America I know and love. Time to fight back and retrieve our dignity and sanity against those that would destroy our way of life. There are those amongst us that do not have our best interests at heart while they pretend that they do. Practice further self deception at the risk of you and your Country’s peril.
Best example is the devolution and decadence of the once faithful Jesuit order within the Roman Catholic Church.
I stopped going to a brick and mortar church when I realized I was in the minority of people who truly believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus. I think most people attended church for show.
I learn much, much more by reading the Bible daily with the help of:
https://www.ttb.org/resources/free-5-year-series-downloads
Theological schools & seminaries got infested with Frankfurt School minions, and ran their cultural Marxist indoctrination there, too.
And those graduates took it to their local churches.
Now we have mostly Rainbow Buffet Churches of the Here and Now. Any member church of World Council of Churches should be considered apostate and fled from. Member churches: https://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches
African Anglican (orthodox) missionaries have considered America a ripe mission field for decades.
Yup. The leftists in the so-called New Age, Name it and Claim It, etc., Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, the same ole mob. They have fooled people for years. Making a mint with their lies. Misleading thousands to hell. The Scriptures say that the LORD will deal with all these people at the Great White Throne. They are not going to like the results!! It never ceases to amaze me how people fall for their lies and misleading teachings. Pastor David Jeremiah holds these talks in a massive arenas and does not charge. Ole Joyce Meyer charges a fee to hear her lies. Just look her up on the Internet. Search Joyce Meyer’s compound in St. Louis and find that massive place. Four huge homes for her and her kids. A huge swimming pool and pool house. GATED of course with high fences so you cannot look inside. Guards. The works. Then there are her books of lies. Makes millions.
We did fight back, and if we were Catholics, we were virtually excommunicated by our Vatican II bishops along with all the good priests, and if we were Protestants (I base this on seeing several churches and church synods), we were disenfranchised or even kicked out.
The Orthodox - and I can say this from the inside - never noticed because their interethnic struggles kept on and they really never cared about getting more people into the Faith unless it made their particular national church look better.
I seriously think a new Church may arise out of this. It will involve all Creedal believers, even those in some Evangelical churches who believe but may have to learn the words of the Creed, and the Orthodox who can rise above nationalism.
So ask the Lord Jesus to help us and what comes out of this could change the world.
The church is not bricks and mortar. We (Christians) are the church
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True. The first church building was constructed 200 years after Christianity started.
His point is that they have broken up Christian community, not the building.
Some of us have tried to keep our church open but could not overcome the fear of others.
Cardinal Ratzinger — years before he became Pope Benedict XVI — predicted a future for the Catholic Church that has pretty much unfolded as he said it would. He said the Church would become much smaller but its members more devout and passionate about their faith.
Do not blame, merely pastors.
Throughout the sixties, seventies, and eighties, older believers fairly often would council congregations about the paths Christians were taking.
Particularly about parenting and educating children.
The church got where it is because by and large it has been stiff necked, and kicked against the goad.
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