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| NCC Giving Up On The Whole 'God' Thing |
| 2007-12-28 |
| The financially and demographically struggling National Council of Churches (NCC) is mulling over a new “Social Creed for the 21st Century” that will succinctly articulate its left-leaning political activism. Many of the NCC’s heterodox officials and activist supporters could not affirm traditional Christian theological creeds. For them, political creeds are the desired alternative. This new creed is supposed to update the Social Creed of 1908 developed by the NCC’s predecessor church council, and which focused on rights for laborers, child labor laws, and old age pensions. The NCC, and its predecessor Federal Council of Churches, were founded by religious and political progressives. Not until the1960’s did far-left radicalism began to displace the NCC’s formerly mainstream liberalism. “It is not enough to celebrate the centennial of the 1908 social creed,” a Presbyterian drafter told the NCC’s General Assembly in November 2007. “It can strengthen the common witness of our communions on a broad range of social concerns — far broader than in 1908.” |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #11 Too many of them became priests and pastors to avoid the draft - not because of any of that calling thing. Then there were those who joined to create platforms for various social issues esp San Francisco ones... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-12-28 23:28 |
| #10 Capitalism is called "Thou shalt not covet", period. You personally are to ensure these issues are seen and addressed, but not by the GOVERNMENT. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-12-28 22:28 |
| #9 When did the NCC ever embrace the "god" thing to begin with? As for their Social Creed, sounds fine to me - provided THEY pay for it. But like all libruls, they want to give someone else's money to the poor, etc..... I believe there's a line somewhere about not being able to serve both God and mammon. Guess we know which one the NCC wankers chose. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-12-28 22:01 |
| #8 the Enterprise in Star Trek was NCC-1701e and was destroyed...just saying |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-12-28 20:26 |
| #7 Thats too bad they formed this council and it's been hijacked. |
| Posted by: Woozle Uneath8763 2007-12-28 19:25 |
| #6 too many "m"'s, OS... Ima partial to the Ingles version, especially since I never formally learned much latin :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-12-28 18:18 |
| #5 or go back 1700 years or so (pretty much the same words)... Credo in unum Deum Patrem omnipotentem; factorum coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium. Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum, et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula [Deum de Deo], Lumen de Lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero, genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri; per quem omnia facta sunt; qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis, et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria virgine, et homo factus est; crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus et sepultus est; et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas; et ascendit in coelum, sedet ad dexteram Patris; et iterum venturus est, cum gloria, judicare vivos et mortuos; cujus regni non erit finis. Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem, qui ex Patre [Filioque] procedit; qui cum Patre et Filio simul adoratur et conglorificatur; qui locutus est per Prophetas. Et unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam. Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum; et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum, et vitam venturi seculi. Amen. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-12-28 17:22 |
| #4 Compare and contrast: We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father; through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father [and the Son], who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-12-28 17:20 |
| #3 "All that is not Eternal is eternally out-of-date." -C.S. Lewis |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo Whineng1868 2007-12-28 12:05 |
| #2 Churches? Don't they have sumthin to do with... what's his name...God? Don't see him mentioned in there anyplace. But why get picky... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-12-28 11:53 |
| #1 The NCC should just declare itself the "Church of the Goracle and Global Warming" and be done with it, since the left is its god. The old God is a Republican after all... |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-12-28 10:56 |