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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ex Catholics I know (and they are legion) are either atheists now or super conservative and go to "Birdsong Bible Church" where they get a ready made social Group of brand-new family friends who suck them in. Literally no one is switching to "First Methodist" with the pride flag flying. I don't know who the target market is there.[/quote]Quite a few at Episcopal and UU congregations[/quote]

Those aren't churches, more like clubs[/quote]

LOL. "I will define 'church' as narrowly as I must to support my assertion that gay friendly churches are dying. If it's gay friendly and not dying, it's not a church."[/quote]

Here’s the thing — they are a “church” in some sense of the word, sure.

But any membership organization must have boundaries as to what the members believe or else the organization means nothing.  You can’t be a member of Greenpeace and hate the environment.  Or be a member of planned parenthood and be pro-life.

The Christian faith is based on a central premise that cannot be changed — that Jesus is the son of God, that he died for our sins, he rose from the grave, and that we are saved through our faith in him.  You must believe those four things at a bare minimum or you are not really a Christian.

Unitarians do not believe any of that.   So they can call themselves a church but it’s not a Christian church.

Episcolplians allegedly believe all of that.   In fact, they were involved in wars and everything else back in the day because they felt the RCC had strayed too far from believing that and added all this other unnecessary stuff to the christian faith.

But in more recent years, the episcolplians have certainly been at the forefront of progressive politics and moving further away from core Christian principles.   It’s very much a mixed bag now and varies from church to church.  [/quote] Hmmm, I think of church as a generic meeting place for a faith community.  I see you are equating ‘church’ specifically to a Christian faith community.  [/quote]

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