Pete The Elder

I've been a lifelong presbyterian, but stunts like this make me seriously question my allegiance. PC(USA)'s strength and weakness is that it's democratic. For the past 10-20 years, the liberal side has been gaining greater control over things and pushing for more and more bad ideas. I was a Youth Advisory Delagate to the 1996 General Assembly (the annual, now biennial, "congress" meeting... lasts a week) in Albuquerque. You'd be amazed and embarrassed at the amount of politicking going on. All sorts of church interest groups lobbying the delagates and stuffing their mailboxes with all sorts of flyers. The issue of whether or not to ordain homosexuals became so divisive that one GA ('98 or '99?) put a three year moritorium on discussing it. They had to... it was dominating all the other issues and business.

Anyway, there are too many people who are sent to these things from the presbyteries who are either liberal or who aren't solid enough in their own beliefs and biblical groundings not to be persuaded by a bunch of bs arguments that are heavy on sympathy and syrupy WWJD sentimentality. Not that I'm opposed to either, but that winds up being the primary content of the arguments. Too many of today's Christians are ignorant of theology, doctrine, church history, and understanding that the Bible actually has some rules and prohibitions in it.

I can't believe my church is meeting with terrorists. That burns me.

Update on this: the PC(USA) has renounced the meeting. I'm not sure if the meeting was made by the delagation and not approved by church headquarters or if everybody is now just trying to cover their butts for such a stupid thing.

The URL is here: http://www.pcusa.org/pcnews/2004/04477.htm.

The site was slow and this story was posted on the main page, so they may be getting some heavy traffic right now as word of the meeting gets out.