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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:17 PM
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Mainline Christian churches want UN to take over Iraq
The nation's largest association of mainline Protestant and Orthodox Christian churches said Tuesday that U.S. policy in Iraq has become so destructive the United Nations should take over.


Separately, bishops of the United Methodist Church, which claims President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as members, said the war has led to the "denigration of human dignity."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_re_us/prisoner_abuse_churches_3
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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:18 PM
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1. Bush is no Methodist..


He is a fundie wingnut. I was raised as a Methodist in the south and Bush is not one of them.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:20 PM
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2. Bush didn't listen to the Pope why should he listen to his own church
Edited on Tue May-11-04 05:20 PM by Mountainman
Bush gets his marching orders directly from God nightly as he gets down on his knees. At least a recent letter to the editor writer has told me so.
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:20 PM
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3. I thought Bush was..
Episcopalian?
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:23 PM
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5. He was Episcopalian but found Jesus with the Fundies...
Some men's Christian group in Midland, Texas.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:22 PM
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4. Too late. The UN won't play with Bush*.
These day late and a dollar short Christians might as well wait for Godot as expect the UN to save Bush*'s ass.
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Eye and Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:28 PM
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7. Perhaps. But if this gets repeated on Sundays, from pulpits -
Then perhaps the UN won't have to play with Junior, come November.
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:25 PM
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6. Most ot them did not give support to Bush before this debacle of invasion
and now they want the un to take over.

He has esttablished his own religion over and above that of the "mainline" Christian relligions and they could not stop it

I wonder why not.

Obviously he has taken over the beliefs of the Christians and attempts to define their religions for them

and if they do not agree with his theology, they will NOT get the faith based government welfare money.

and, I would think that many will prostitute themselves out to the government in order to get the money, especially since we are headed to times where people do not have the jobs, therefore not the money to contribute to their local church.
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:28 PM
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8. This needs to be hammered home, that real Christians are
against this war.
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 06:07 PM
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11. "Born Again Christians" are NOT really Christians. They are a....
Edited on Tue May-11-04 06:07 PM by PROGRESSIVE1
cult. Real Christians would NEVER support the usage of LIES to support a CRIMINAL/IMMORAL action such as a pre-emptive war in Iraq!

:puke:
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:29 PM
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9. Good - Maybe Their Parishoners Will All Vote for Kerry
:kick:
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:30 PM
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10. Where were the mainline christian churches
Edited on Tue May-11-04 05:30 PM by The_Casual_Observer
when the invasion/genocide was going down? Did they form a protest?
Did they condemn it?

Great advice, now that the UN wouldn't touch this with a 10' RPG launcher.
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duvinnie Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 06:20 PM
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12. well, around here
they were among the first to protest the war. and continue
to do so..

remember, *'s core group is not mainline protestants.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 06:21 PM
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13. All these churches were against the invasion from the beginning.
The only denomination that officially supported the invasion was the Southern Baptists.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 06:26 PM
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14. Real Christians are opposed to this.
And they always have been.
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