Part of the difficulty is in your assumption that all Christian sects believe that the Bible is inerrant and consistent. Fundamentalists claim that, but UCC's (mostly) aren't fundamentalists. They also aren't (mostly) evangelicals. From the UCC web site:
"It affirms the responsibility of the Church in each generation to make this faith its own in reality of worship, in honesty of thought and expression, and in purity of heart before God."
I'm not a fan of any religion, but even I concede that some are better than others.
http://www.ucc.org/aboutus/family.htm
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Gays and the Bible.
by gumby infirst of all.....i ain't bashin gays here......just have a question.. this morning i read in the paper that the united church of christ has unanimously approved of same sex marriage.
this now is the largest protestant sect who has approved of gay marriages.. my question is.......how does religion justify a way of life the bible condems as sinful?
what is their scriptural argument to justify this action as proper?.
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Life-threatening blind fanaticism
by Grace inin the aftermath of yesterday's london tragedy, the radio stations were rife with those calling in and talking about some religious fanatics on the other side of the world.
the radio commentator himself talked about how barber shops in baghdad were being bombed and barbers were having their lives threatened (or taken) because of one religion's decrees that hair should not be cut.
the commentary kept asking how do we negotiate with people like this?.
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I'm in a book group that's reading "Panther in the Sky"--an historical novel about Techumseh--which is reminding me that Americans have never had difficulty establishing rationale to take what they wanted by any means necessary and for turning their victims into their oppressors. I'm too ignorant to know if this is simply human history of if there's something about how western civilization developed that lends makes this inevitable. Certainly religion has provided part of the rationale, but without it, we still seem to do just fine at assuring ourself that raping and pillaging is really self defense.
It would be lovely if religion were an effective counterbalance to what is probably a characteristic of the behavior of human organizations instead of being a shaper and motivator of it.
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Frog's first semester Uni results are in!
by Frog ini realise this is probably quite a dull subject for all my friends here, but this frog can't help but to share her happy moment, cause she's just bursting at the seams with self-congratulatory praise!.
i just logged on to the uni website to get my long awaited semester one results.
i knew i had done well with my essays, pop quizzes etc throughout the semester, but i attributed that to the fact that i had weeks to fine tune my writing and research.
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Congratulations! What's most important, of course, is what you have learned and how confident you feel about your knowledge and abilities, but isn't it wonderful to get that affirmation from your profs!
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Google earth.........freaking sweet!!!!
by Heatmiser inhttp://earth.google.com/
i have been playing with this for a couple of hours.
it is sweeeeeeeeeeeet.. glenn
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No fair. Windows only.
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My brother wants to talk to me about why I left the org. He is JW.
by avengers inas many of you know i live in holland.. i'm visiting the us now and my brother who is now at the convention.
in tacoma wa wants to talk to me about the reason why i left the org.. actually i'd like to, but what i'm afraid of is that it will turn into an argument,.
he and his wife are really gung ho dubbies and .
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I agree with Frog--he doesn't want to hear why you left the organization. He wants to tell you why you shouldn't have left and why you should return.
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S*its about to hit the fan with my in-laws
by pratt1 inbrief history:.
both my wife and i have faded from the borg for about 10 years.
we still maintain close relationhips with the dubs in our family on both sides.. my wife's sister has not only faded, but she has become an ordained minster, thus my mother in law calls her an "apostate" and refuses to have any contact with her.. her 4 year old daughter will stay with my family for about 2 weeks in august.
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Coming at it from an entirely different angle, perhaps your wife could tell her sister that she's reconsidering having her niece visit since their mother is putting increasing pressure on her to arrange a visit and she (your wife) is having a terrible time being in the middle?
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Conduct Unbecoming Missionaries!
by Kenneson in"in netanya {israel} last night, missionaries from the jehovah's witnesses sect beat up two activists from the yad l'achim organization...".
"after the assault on the yad l'achim members, the members of the building's residents' committee decided on the spot to put an end to the jehovah's witnesses study sessions in their property.".
looks like the witnesses have lost their meeting place.. see "missionaries physically attacked anti-missionaries in netanya".
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Ah, yes. The peace that passeth all understanding.
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Intro/Is it ok for me to be here?
by Sad emo inis it ok for me to be part of your 'gang'?
you see i'm not a jw and never have been and a bit of of me feels like i'm gatecrashing.. i was raised in a strong roman catholic family - i was expected to believe everything the church taught without question and i did.
when i left school, i found myself working with an evangelical christian who, because she questioned my beliefs slowly made me look into them for myself - i truly hated her at the time for doing that and admit that i made her life a misery in revenge - but eventually i began to see that some of the stuff she was saying was right, we became very good friends and my real journey out of the rc church began.. i was too scared to leave straight away because of the doctrines i'd grown up with - no salvation outside the church and you can only really communicate with god through the priest (big issue here was how do i get my sins forgiven cos if i don't i'm gonna go to hell) - it was another 10 years before i finally plucked up the courage to leave and this was because of two things that happened:.
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Last night I was listening to This American Life (http://www.thislife.org/ it's episode 290) and I was struck once again by the fact that all religions are cults and all both help and harm their adherents. I was especially struck by Julia Sweeney's piece that ends the show. I greatly recommend it.
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Gerrit Loesch GB Speaker at KC convention
by stillajwexelder ingerritt loesch was the gb speaker today at the kc convention - and what a boring old fart he was - i fell asleep and so did my wife
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Do you think most people there reacted much differently than you did?
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And what, pray tell, might this be: Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses?
Also, does it look to anyone else as if that young woman is desperately trying to get her hand out of Carey Barbour's grasp?