Presbyterians publish book accusing Dubyah of plotting 9/11
I have a cousin who is a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA). He once noted that, with the fall of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, and the Presbyterian Church are about all the Communists have left.
As is the case with most of the so-called "mainline" Protestant denominations, the moonbattery of the PCUSA is beyond belief. But this time, the Presbyterian moonbats have outdone themselves.
The denomination's official publishing house- John Knox Press- is actually publishing a book by process theology heretic David Ray Griffin claiming that George W. Bush, rather than Osama bin Laden, plotted the attacks of 9/11 in order to provide an excuse for going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I continue to be amazed at the willful naivete of my former parishioners in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge all evidence of its whacked-out character. But the notion that any layperson in the PCUSA could be in denial about that sad and sorry excuse for a denomination in the face of its publication of a book advocating such a transparently ridiculous and malicious premise, and one so far outside the realm of reasoned discourse (to say nothing of the commandment against false witness) is even more bizarre than the premise of the book itself.
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Right. At the same time as my husband was in the hall watching a video about how our kids were to learn at the Youth Convention to help the illegal immigrant because, "God migrated to us as Christ; we migrate to God through belief in Christ; therefore, we should not fear migration", I was holding in my hand the answer to all that Biblical "castigation" and allows us to see Jezebel as a great role model who stood up to "the threats posed by prophets and their leaders." Would that be the three persons of the Holy Trinity, maybe?
Thankfully, though, should I ever have a daughter, I can pass on to her a book in which "Jezebel emerges not as the notorious and despised 'painted lady' of biblical narrative and later tradition but as the urbane and thoughtful Queen of Israel who gives voice to her efforts and those of her family in guiding Israel through one of its most challenging—and least understood—periods." That'll set the misogynist Mosaic record straight!
I really do think that it was easier when the tribe to whom you were witnessing declined politely and invited you to stay as the main course of dinner. You fulfilled the call to "go into all the world" with the gospel; you got to meet Christ much earlier than you could have hoped; and the tribe usually ended up converting through your witness or that of others who followed you. In the ELCA, they send you to conventions and try to reprogram you or fry your mental circuits in the process. You cannot go into all the world because you are in a straightjacket; you long for Christ to come again, but He avoids the ELCA like the plague; and you have to pay outrageous prices for food that the local convenience store could prepare better. Still, some of us soldier on, trying to bring the light of Christ into the dark places of Lutheranism. Glad your blog is there to make it easier! :)