I Encourage all Churches To Shun Members they Don't Like

I think this is a great idea and I think all the churches should just stick by their guns and start kicking out members they don't like. There is nothing like a good shunning...

So if the Baptist Churches want to get rid of the Democrats...Let Them!

If the Catholics don't want the Gays, Those Who Dare Use Birth Control, and Pro-Choice members...let them kick them out.

Whoever the Methodists, Lutherans..etc don't like...let them kick them out!

And guess what...perhaps those people who have been kicked out will understand that they are lucky. They can spend the money they put in church coffers to better use...perhaps give it to the local food bank...

Perhaps they can spend Sundays with their families making a nice breakfast and a game of hoops...or just quiet reflection in the garden....or even better yet!!! They can spend Sunday doing truly charitible work...for the organization of their choice.

church influence won't last long then...

Ain't that the truth. :)

;-)

And read what Christ actually said, and start giving our money to programs like Planned Parenthood and homeless shelters and Veterans organizations.

For some reason, I believe the new Fundy memo is that the Rapture is due to occur so soon, they can go off the deep end. We've got preachers standing on corners in our very tiny town screaming redemption at passing cars. I haven't seen any street corner preachers in this town in the seven years I've lived here. Ever.

Saw another guy on a bicycle adorned with Endtimes warnings a few miles away.

Now folks, I really don't think if there is a god, he would be impressed that you worship a President, scream at other people about their sins, or ride around on a bike all day telling folks the end is coming.

I think he would be more impressed if you helped out a young mother or a Vet or a homeless person. Just my opinion, of course.

to show their true colors. No need for tolerance when you're running a private club. Just pay your taxes like the rest of us, thank you very much.

a family living in a Mennonite community and how all that shunning and 'others' thinking ends up eating away at the heart & soul of a family.

Miriam Toews is the author I believe.

Hilarious too as we see that world from the pov of a teenage girl growing up in the 1970s.

But a good reminded that 'rule-makers' just end up making rules and interpreting rules and end up in a smaller, and smaller group as they alienate any sort of creativity or original thinking. And the leader's that follow the creators of the church end up having fewer and fewer leadership skills and are really just the bottom of the barrel in no time.

I can't agree. My religion says to embrace all people and to scorn no
persons. All persons suffer, and when shown compassion, learn and heal
that i would hope they would reflect that in their political lives.

My buddhist master put it, "I love you guys(& gals), but i don't like
you." In religion then, we take each spirit individually, and maybe
there are hard cases of hateful people who should indeed be eschewed
until they become humble before eternity and death. However, that is
hardly a call to make religion political.

As much as a foolish false church of a false religion has claimed to
make religion political, it is merely the mutterings of the insane...
and has no wisdom for us.

to churches that can't keep their nose out of politicking, that promote warmongering while speaking out of the other sides of their mouths about abortion and the death penalty, and think it's great to pre-emptively strike other countries. Who wants to belong to a so-called religion like that anyway?

And let the selfish churches reduce themselves to chest-beating torch-burners. Nothing like a little contrast.