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Latest Articles: Religion
There’s a New Baptist Sex Abuser Database, but SBC Action Is Still Needed
Post Date: 2020-05-06 13:20:42 by Gatlin
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There’s a New Baptist Sex Abuser Database, but SBC Action Is Still Needed For more than a decade, abuse survivor advocates have been asking the Southern Baptist Convention to establish a clergy predator database, and for just as long they’ve been confronted with a denomination determined to do nothing. Now Megan and Dominique Benninger, who brought to light their former pastor’s record as a convicted child molester after the leadership of their Pennsylvania church failed to disclose it, have launched a new Baptist sex abuser database at BaptistAccountability.org. Their work builds on the StopBaptistPredators database that I started and maintained from 2006 to 2012, ...
US government releases nearly 700 migrants after evangelical leaders request
Post Date: 2020-05-04 11:42:56 by Gatlin
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US government releases nearly 700 migrants after evangelical leaders request Nine leaders of US evangelical organizations urged Donald Trump's government to release detained migrants “who do not pose a threat to public safety”during the coronavirus pandemic, particularly “the elderly or who may otherwise be uniquely vulnerable to the worst effects of Covid-19”. In a letter sent last week to Acting Secretary Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, the signatories encouraged him “to partner with churches and community organizations to ensure that individuals who are released can find safe accommodations in which to ‘shelter in place’ for as ...
CANDAL: Al Mohler Just Fired SBC Professor Who Stood Against Marxism & CRT
Post Date: 2020-05-04 08:24:11 by Gatlin
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CANDAL: Al Mohler Just Fired SBC Professor Who Stood Against Marxism & CRT Albert Mohler terminated four conservative Southern Baptist professors including the lone SBTS professor to sign the Dallas Statement on Social Justice & the Gospel. This group of conservative professors stood against the leftward drift of the Southern Baptist Convention. And now they are out of a job. The firings of Russell Fuller, Theodore Cabal, Ken Magnuson, and Jim Orrick were first reported by Enemies Within the Church. Read the remainder of the article here.
3 Ways We Can Pray for Our Nation
Post Date: 2020-05-04 07:55:46 by Gatlin
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Churches splitting over homosexuality and related issues In the past 15 years, at least four big US churches have split after long and intense debates over homosexuality and the role of LGBTQ members. Religious historians say we haven't seen so many church schisms since 19th- century debates over slavery, when denominations split into Northern and Southern branches. And the current breaks over homosexuality could be just the early tremors of an earthquake that will scatter the country's entire Christian landscape, some scholars argue. "The mainline Protestants are like the shock troops," said James Hudnut-Beumler, a professor of religious history at Vanderbilt ...
More churches are breaking in two over LGBTQ issues
Post Date: 2020-05-04 07:50:58 by Gatlin
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More churches are breaking in two over LGBTQ issues In recent decades four of the seven traditional mainline Protestant denominations have split up over homosexuality or related issues, such as the interpretation of Scripture and frustrations over rehashing the same debate for decades. They read like an alphabet soup of American religion: The American Baptist Churches USA, the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Presbyterian Church USA.
The Methodist Church will probably split in two over homosexuality, and that's bad for all of us
Post Date: 2020-05-04 07:42:59 by Gatlin
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The Methodist Church will probably split in two over homosexuality, and that's bad for all of us The Methodist Church added "united" to its name after merging with another denomination in 1968. But for much of the past 52 years, unity has proved elusive. That's been especially true at meetings of the church's top legislative body, the General Conference, where factions have fought for decades about sexuality and Scripture. After the church strengthened its bans on partnered LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage last year, many Methodists argued that a split was likely inevitable. "The situation here has become so toxic that the church was basically ...
Evangelical leaders urge Trump to release migrant detainees at risk from coronavirus
Post Date: 2020-05-04 07:05:38 by Gatlin
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Evangelical leaders urge Trump to release migrant detainees at risk from coronavirus Nine leaders of evangelical Christian organizations called on the Trump administration to release migrants from detentions facilities “who do not pose a threat to public safety” amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a Monday letter to acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, leaders who are part of the Evangelical Immigration Table called for immigration officials to partner with religious groups and community organizations to find released detainees “safe accommodations in which to ‘shelter in place’ for as long as such practices are advised.” Evangelical Immigration ...
10 People Who Give Christianity a Bad Name
Post Date: 2020-04-23 06:57:07 by Gatlin
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10 People Who Give Christianity a Bad Name Christianity has been around for two thousand years and, for the most part, it has preached a good message by which to live. But unfortunately, as with all organized bodies, many people claiming to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ have shown themselves to behave quite opposite to the message it espouses. This list looks at 10 of the worst. 10 - Sun Myung Moon Moon Senate CrownedmessiahHe is the founder of the Unification Church, which has become worldwide since its origin in 1954. Moon was born in 1920, and has set himself up at the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. A lot of people go around saying, “I’m Jesus,” but they are ...
A Biased Mind Cannot Grasp Reality (Antichrist article posted by Gatlin)
Post Date: 2020-04-23 04:24:08 by Gatlin
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I am extremely delighted to attend this inter faith seminar on the Preservation of Religious Harmony, Coexistence and Universal Peace organised by the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), Ladakh group. Thank you very much for the detailed explanation of the association's history, activities, objectives and their relevance in the present century. I have nothing to add on what the speakers said earlier. But I would like to say a few things.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking at the Shia Mosque in Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India on July 27, 2016. (Photo by Tenzin Choejor/OHHDL)
We are now in the twenty first century. The quality of research on both the inner and ...
The Closed Mind (faggot propaganda posted by Gatlin)
Post Date: 2020-04-21 17:25:23 by Gatlin
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The Closed Mind
Why does it close, and how does it open?
Each of us knows at least one person whom we would say has a closed mind. Bias, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia, and homophobia are all examples of closed- mindedness. When one’s mind is made up, there is no changing it. But there are other forms of closed-mindedness—for example, religious fundamentalism (regardless of the particular religion) is also a form of closed-mindedness. Fundamentally, what closed-mindedness does is shut out the possibility of original thinking.
The closed-minded person is not allowed to question her own beliefs. Such questioning allows a person to center on her own authentic self and to come to ...
The Credibility Crisis of Today’s Pastors
Post Date: 2020-04-21 17:15:14 by Gatlin
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The Credibility Crisis of Today’s Pastors The good news: Most people don’t dislike pastors. The bad news: They just don’t really care about pastors either. In Barna’s The State of Pastors report, produced in partnership with Pepperdine University, the reception of pastors was generally lukewarm. One-quarter of all U.S. adults (24%) holds a very positive opinion of pastors in general. Meanwhile, roughly the same proportion reports a negative opinion (28% “somewhat” + “very” negative). Similarly, one-quarter of the population has little regard for the pastoral influence in their city or neighborhood (23% “not very” + “not at all” ...
"My Testimony", by 'Probably Alexandra', "TRUTHER' (*Worth a listen for a Believer, Lukewarm Believer, Almost-Believer or un-Believer*)
Post Date: 2020-04-21 12:58:58 by Liberator
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Poster Comment:You *especially* do not have to be a Christian to appreciate this testimony of Alexandra. Please give it a listen. Alexandra grew up in a "Fundie" home, had to deal with chronic illness, rejected the rigidity and hypocrisy of her parents, was rejected by her peers and family, became an Atheist, explored her spirituality and sought truth. There is something for all to relate to.
Arrest warrant out for anti-social distancing pastor after incident with bus, protester
Post Date: 2020-04-20 23:24:47 by Gatlin
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Arrest warrant out for anti-social distancing pastor after incident with bus, protester An arrest warrant was issued Monday for Rev. Tony Spell, the Louisiana pastor who has defied state orders against large gatherings, for allegedly nearly hitting a protester with his church bus. Spell will be charged with aggravated assault for backing his bus too lose to a protester, in a confrontation caught on tape, police in the city of Central said. The incident happened on Sunday on the side of the road in front of the suspect's Life Tabernacle Church. Prosecutors were in talks with Spell's representatives on Monday night, negotiating a self-surrender, police said. Spell has openly ...
The rightwing Christian preachers in deep denial over Covid-19's danger
Post Date: 2020-04-20 22:38:25 by Gatlin
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The rightwing Christian preachers in deep denial over Covid-19's danger The rightwing Christian preachers in deep denial over Covid-19's danger A number of American religious leaders have endangered their flock by holding services – and by claiming the virus can be defeated by faith in God Last Sunday in Tampa, Florida, the Pentecostal pastor and conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne conducted two services for full houses at his River church. The closely packed audience spent hours together taking in hymns and Howard- Browne’s extended sermon, even as the state implemented quarantine for New Yorkers, and projections estimated that Florida’s coronavirus death ...
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