Theocrat Rod Parsley Attacks Pastor Dan

Theocrat Rod Parsley Attacks Pastor Dan

Source: Street Prophets - http://www.streetprophets.com

Author: Pastor Dan

Date: 14 August, 2008

Schultz would be an obscure United Church of Christ pastor of a tiny congregation in rural Wisconsin if it were not for the power of the Internet and his own passion for new-media publicity. Under his pen name, pastordan, he has become ...

Here is pastordan’s reply, quoted at some length to preserve the context:

“This all sounds very nice, and I’m sure it’s well-intentioned. But it uses right-wing frames to build the discussion, then appeals to a center ground that’s actually skewed pretty badly...

Is It a Church if it is on the Internet?

Is It a Church if it is on the Internet?

Source: First United Church of Christ

Author: Pastor Sandy Johnson

Date: 7 August, 2008

Who “attends” i.ucc.org? Lots of different people: UCC members who want to widen their circle, UCC folk who don’t have a UCC congregation near by, and perhaps most importantly, people without a church connection who have somehow been drawn to the particular ministry of the United Church of Christ: No matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you’re welcome here.

The Politics and Religion of Fear

The Politics and Religion of Fear

Source: Healthy Liberal Christianity at Park Church, Elmira, NY

Author: Wayne E. Gustafson, D.Min.

Date: 7 August, 2008

My concern today is the totally inappropriate (dare I say, evil) use of Christian scriptures and beliefs to generate broad-based fear throughout the electorate ...

Some, if not all, of these statements find their way into the internet distribution system. One widely distributed post has a description of the antichrist that makes this ominous character sound just like Obama, including that he will be a Muslim. Of course, many people don’t seem to notice that the Islamic religion didn’t even come to being until several centuries after the biblical prophecies were written, or the fact that Obama belongs to the United Church of Christ and is not a Muslim at all...