EzraS wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
EzraS wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
EzraS wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
EzraS wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
It's too bad a more mainline form of Christianity hadn't caught on among these people.
What in a nutshell would be the difference?
Evangelicals think in unrealistic absolutes rather than accepting that people in need and in pain have to come before strict rules. Cases in point: when Jesus told his disciples to pick grain to eat on the Sabbath, or when he saved the adulteress from being stoned to death despite what the law demanded.
Something I don't quite get. The second largest mainline church is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
It's hardly evangelical in the common American word usage. It actually dates back to Europe of old, when Lutherans, especially in Germany, had referred to themselves as Evangelicals. The uninformed sometimes assume they are American evangelical types, when in fact they are theological left leaning mainline Protestants. My own Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is a theologically right leaning mainline Protestant body. Still, mainline without the evangelical type theology and practice.
It sounds basically like if one is a liberal they would want to be a Methodist or Lutheran if they joind a church. Although it seems most choose to be agnostic or atheist.
Not all Lutherans or Methodists are liberals by any means, though they are mostly center right or center left.
I was just saying it sounds like those denominations would appeal more to a liberal.
Maybe, but there are still plenty of conservative members, too. A church shouldn't hitch itself to secular politics for the most part, save for something noble like civil rights.
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-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
24 Sep 2019, 1:23 am
