June 9, 2013

The Radicalization of the Church

By Fay Voshell
For decades, radical left theology has been making gradual inroads into the nation's churches. Inserting the God factor has granted a divine imprimatur to leftist tenets, something secularist political organizations can't match. Congregants who attend Main Line liberal houses of worship (Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Episcopalians) have been led to assume God has given the nod to policies endorsing political correctness, radical feminism, abortion, same-sex marriage, redistribution of wealth, multiculturalism and other leftist causes. Devoted churchgoers may have noted the politically-correct linguistic gymnastics which have been and still are bending scripture, liturgy, and hymnody to the left. The bible has been scrutinized for patriarchal heresies and changed to accommodate radical feminism. God is to be referred to only in gender neutral terms, never as "He." As the LA Times noted, the Episcopal hymnal of 1982 eliminated male imagery of God as Father, Son, and...(Read Full Article)