It seems that some "Christian" churches have out grown the need for the Savior. In Toronto the West Hill Protestant United Church of Christ has decided that it's going to take a little something out of it's teachings... You guessed it, Jesus Christ. Also they are going to downgrade God to god, and limit the time spent on much of the Biblical passages.
One question, then how do they retain their affiliation with the
UCC? Isn't it an
oxymoron to be a Christian church that doesn't teach about Christ?
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HereBTW, I completely agree with the line from
The Anchoress. Not that I agree with everything she says, but this is the typical self indulgent type of
tripe that has led us to the dark times we are now seeing.
Update v2;OK, so the reactions haven't been as visceral as I expected. Some of the point made were expected, and now I will attempt to answer them in a very straight forward manner. I am not arguing for the superiority of men, I am making the point that we are different in nature, and because of those natural differences each have been given devine roles.
My wife sees herself as a better multi-tasker because she shifts from project to project without any discernable objective in mind. The conversation she mentioned was one in which she was frusterated that she had worked her tail off that day and the house really didn't look that much better. She stated that because she saw the project as a whole she was doing it in what to her was a logical order. The problem that I saw is that she spent the day shifting between things that had only a shoestring connection instead of focusing her efforts on one project and finishing it before moving on to the next one.
I recieve between 80 and 100 e-mails a day, and I talk on the phone to roughly the same number of clients. The e-mails come from a dozen or more different clients spread out accross the country. Each has different needs, budgets, and expectations. If I attempted to work in the same manner as Janika does I'd lose clients and get fired. I'd spend all of my time working reactively instead of pro-actively.
Instead I prioritize the things that need to be done each day and work down my list as quickly as possible. That doesn't mean that I lock myself into a set routine, but that I go in with a basic gameplan that can be modified as needed. With that in mind I also know what I have to finish certain tasks before I can move on to another. I call this my alphabet. Projects that are an "A" priority are more important than ones that are a "B" priority. Anything lower than a "D" can wait indefinitely.
Women operate on a more emotional plane than men. When I see a problem I don't "Feel" anything, I just analyze and look for a solution. A woman's ability to understand issues and people on an emotional level is very powerful, and in my opinion a strength. On the other hand, left unchecked it weakens society and becomes a destructive force.
How many times have we been told that we need to understand what someone's been through before we can understand what they have done? How about being told that the rough upbringing of a serial killer somehow justifies the horrors that they have committed? Of course none of this is more true than the people who tell us that these suicidal terrorists who try and kill us do it because of how poor and downtrodden they are.
Is anyone out there going to tell me that a masculine instinct is responsible for this line of thinking?
This lady who has decided to take God and Jesus out of a church and continues to operate under the name Chucrch of Christ. Is operating from two planes. She is as my wife pointed out narcicistic, but she is also relying on her compassion to guide her. She is horrified by the thought of actually labeling good and evil. The Bible says that homosexuality is a sin, but her church wants to ignore that part. They start out by gutting the doctorine that they find inconvinient, and then end up with nothing of value so finally they scrap the whole thing.
She is operating from the feminine instinct to be inclusive. She doesn't want to hurt people's feelings so she deletes the portions of the gospel that offend. This is not just true of "Progressive" churches, but "Progressive" movements in general. Think about the outcry from the left when President Bush labeled the "Axis of Evil". I personally think he didn't go far enough.
We have de-evolved into a world of whimpering cowards. We have allowed the Woman's Liberation movement to morph from a group that was interested in equal rights into a group that looks down their noses at women who choose to stay home and raise the next generation. We have allowed people like Gloria Stienam to tell us that there is no difference between boys and girls. And the whole time we have been told that we need to be more sensetive.
I'm plenty sensetive, I care about my family and worry about them when they are sick or in pain. More than that I worry about the roots of the issues that are causing them pain. I worry about them not being prepared for the world, about them being un-equipped to deal with important issues.
More later.... Man it feels good to vent!
