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Sleo@lemmy.ca to World News@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

United Methodists lose one-fifth of US churches in schism driven by growing defiance of LGBTQ bans

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Sleo@lemmy.ca to World News@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people.
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    A lot of these pastors have to be looking at their steadily declining congregations and thinking maybe it’s not the kids who are wrong, after all.

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      That requires at least a mediocre amount of critical thinking skills and those are taboo in religious organizations, so doubt it.

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          Probably not. Atheistic fundamentalists are still fundamentalists. Their thinking is just as flawed

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