Christianity and the bad reputation

[crboltz]

So yesterday, a bit of news was had by Anne Rice claiming that she was "Quitting being a Christian" due to the perceived notion that to be Christian one has to be anti-many things including: Gay folks, Feminists, Women, Scientists, Birth Control etc. Ultimately it seems that what Ms. Rice wants to quit is being Catholic (Sorry to my Catholic

Comments

[hiddentass]

What I liked best was that (IIRC) she was raised Roman Catholic. It's not like it the Church has undergone a sea change on these matters in the past few years. (Yes, I know there are significant and important changes, but the broad outlines here have existed for my lifetime). The Roman Catholic Church does keep secrets and has behaved horribly behind closed doors, but their positions on these issues have always been, in my opinion, pretty damn transparent.

Long live the UCC, liberal Lutheran denominations, and everyone else who remembers that Christ ate with whores and tax collectors.

-Tass

(I look forward to the RCC joining this select crowd, but I believe Pope Sidious will need see St. Peter first)

[crboltz]

I agree: Let's raise a glass (of holy wine) to UCC< Liberal Lutherans, Unitarians, and other groups that remember who Christ shared chow with!

[jimkeller]

This is the problem when so many religions insist that they and only they have the right answers, and every other denomination is not Christian (or Muslim or Jewish or whatever). When said denomination gets something wrong (as they invariably do), their followers are forced to throw out the baby with the bath water. Because in their mind, one cannot be part of the religion without being part of the denomination, and if the denomination is wrong, so is the entire religion.

So I guess the first step is to work on a "respect all religions' beliefs" campaign. Of course, many denominations fear this, as they think it will cause their membership to switch to other denominations, but I think it's what is actually needed.

[crboltz]

When I went through Confirmation, we had to attend several other denomination's services, and we had in depth discussion s of the theological differences.... All of this actually moved me to a greater commitment to UCC, I wonder what other churches do that?

[doctorray]

I think there are two related matters at work here contributing to this problem

[crboltz]

I think you are right. The "liberal" churches tend to be a lot quieter than the "damn everyone else to hell" churches. The UCC produced two TV commercials, which several networks refused to air. I found them on you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx1u1v7hAtY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcv9u9x3z8