She'd flip!

My mother wouldn't just turn over in her grave, she'd flip!  Whatever has become of the once-mighty United Church of Canada?  The latest snafu is its decision to boycott products exported by Israeli settlements on the West Bank, claiming that these were the obstacles to peace.  Then they proceed to elect an "out", same-sex married guy as the moderator.  Not stopping there, they celebrate an avowed atheist serving in a Toronto pulpit because, "she causes us to think more deeply about the nature of our faith".

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?)()*)^&^)_(_*&$%^&*)(*&^%!!!!!!

The United Church used to be, well.............The United Church.  It was the bulwark of Canada.  United Church women, busy making sandwiches and hosting bazaars and teas in parish basements, ran the country.  The United Church stood for everything that was "sensible".  It was reasonable and accepting.  But now "acceptance" has run amok.  It started back in 1997, when they elected Bill Phipps as moderator.  Bill immediately declared he didn't believe in the Resurrection -- or even that Jesus was God.  Huh!!??  He topped it off by saying that he "had no idea if there was an afterlife".  Apparently, things have slid downhill from there. 

I was raised in the United Church.  Every decent value I hold was nourished there by some of the finest people you'll ever meet.  Little old ladies who cherished children, fine gentlemen whose manners would put the King of England to shame, matrons who gave and gave and gave............it was a very civil place, nurtured by proper, civic-minded, sober, law-abiding people.

Now the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

They seem to have forgotten that they are a "Christian Church" and have instead morfed into some sort of left-wing club.  The United Church's path of self-destruction continues unabated, as theology and belief are sacrificed in the name of "social justice".  "Wishy-washy" is the order of the day, as sermons devoid of biblical truth ring out over almost-empty pews.  Having let an atheist into the pulpit, how can it actually call itself a church?  It is ludicrous.

No wonder church membership has plummeted 50 percent over the past 50 years.  Predictions are that it will fall another 50 by 2025 and be zero by 2040.  Needless to say, finances are in free-fall.  Catholics and evangelicals are now the leading voices in Canada.  I guess that's because they actually have a Christian message. 

As I look back on my childhood in the United Church of Canada, I treasure the sunday school lessons I learned.  It gave me a love of "the word" and the Old Testament, which I do not get in my adopted Catholic religion -- much as I love the latter for many other reasons.

Dear old United Church.  Last one out, turn off the lights.