Heretics Leave a Moral Foundation of Quicksand

By Rich Kozlovich 

Susan Quinn over a American Thinker posted this article, People are returning to church, on May 15,  and I posted the following comment.  

While I’m a firm believer that a return to the Judaic/Christian principles and practices is essential to turning the nation around, I have misgivings. I have to wonder if the leaders of these churches a capable of doing that. What are they’re teaching? What do they believe? Do they even believe in the Bible and God?

Churches across all of Western civilization are twisting themselves into shapes no apostle would recognize — bending like pretzels to please a secular society. "They update doctrines, rewrite homilies, and water down long-held beliefs, all in hopes of attracting people who rarely show up anyway".

Now the Church of England has chosen its new leader: Dame Sarah Mullally, "hailed as a “theological liberal” and celebrated for her progressive stances. But it raises a fair question: Does the Archbishop believe in the Christianity she is meant to lead, or only in a softened imitation of it?"  Since it's clear they don't believe the Bible is God's word, perhaps they should be asked if they believe there is a God? If people are what they do, then their actions say ... no!

Catholics aren’t the only ones hedging on leftist heresy such as abortion, the United Church of Christ called abortion health care. One rabbi claimed his religion made him pro-abortion. M. B. Mathews says, American Churches are Killing Christianity. There’s a reason why public trust in churches has fallen. 

 

As for me, I hate throwing a wet towel on this very positive article, but I consider myself optimistically pessimistic at the outcome, and these articles lend credibility to my view.  

1.  Young Adults Are Returning to Faith, but Will It Last?
2.  Clergy Are Engaging in Marxist Politics Under the Guise of Pastoral Care
3.  Vatican Excommunicates Traditionalist Catholic Group After Years of Failed Negotiations 
4. The Fallout from Archbishop Vigano’s Message to Pope Leo
5.  Why a Forgetful Church Produces an Ungrateful Nation
6.  The Unexplained Constants of Physics That Keep Pointing Straight to God
7.  Episcopal Church Ordains First Openly Lesbian Bishop in Southern United Statese
8.  U.S., Christianity, fundamentally transformed 
9.  Justice, social justice, and Catholicism  

What follows is from an article I originally published on Monday, January 6, 2020, it's being hit for some reason, and perhaps it's because of what we're seeing from these leaders of their religions, and as I've demonstrated, it's not pretty.   

 

On January 5, 2020 Andrew Harrod posted the article, "The Episcopal Church's Fruits of Heresy" saying:

“This church has about 30 more years before it is dead,” stated one young man at a 2016 forum at the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in Alexandria, Virginia, as quoted in the recent book The Seduction of the Episcopal Church.  Therein Anglican author David Virtue, a longtime critical observer of worldwide Anglicanism, reviews the Episcopal Church’s decades-long fall from grace in an exposé of Christian folly in accommodating a secularized, sexualized modernity.

He goes on to say:

“Spiritual and ecclesiastical death marks the present and future state of this denomination” today as Episcopal Church membership has cratered from a 1966 peak of 3,647,297, to 1,676,349 in 2018.  Particularly the 2003 consecration of noncelibate homosexual V. Gene Robinson as an Episcopal bishop unleashed an “ecclesiastical tsunami wave” and the “worst single outflow of Episcopalians in modern history,” over 100,000......Largely due to his lobbyist “inglorious victory for one man,” the “Church had gone from thoroughly heterosexual to pansexual in one generation,” Virtue notes, a “feat that present day cultural Marxists could only stand back and admire.”...........

The article goes on to describe the depth of heresy to which these Bishops have plunged this church.  The article ends with saying this church will pretty much cease to exist with-in two generations.  That's being optimistic in my opinion, and demographics are going to play a huge, huge, role in the demise of these religions.  He goes on to say:

"now other Christians must heed this writing on the wall."

That's not going to happen, and this church isn't alone in its heresy, it's part of the herd of heretic secularists who infest these religions, as demonstrated in this article, Methodists propose split over LGBTQ impasse, and this article, Pope is a Heretic Because of Views on Homosexuality and Abortion, Catholic Group Says, and here, Now I Know What's Wrong With Sweden!, and that's a mere token representation of what's going on.  This article, Meet God’s Communists, demonstrates how this occurred saying: 

The United States is a deeply religious country. Very early on, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) realized that if the United States was ever to be brought to socialism, religion would have to be harnessed to the task. 

Enter the CPUSA’s Religion Commission, where socialist pastors, religious academics, and laypeople network to spread Marxist ideas through their churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. 

As the United States is primarily a Christian country, the communists began to infiltrate churches, seminaries, and theological colleges even before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

Those so-called "mainstream Christian churches" have been co-opted, at the highest levels, by left wing atheists determined to destroy the foundation for Western culture, Bible based Judaic/Christian values and principles, going back to the beginning of the 20th century by Stalinist agents. What has been the result after all these decades of heretical implementation of politically correct leftist thought?

“We can see how many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization,” he said at a conference in 2013. “They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious, and even sexual … They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex partnerships, belief in God with the belief in Satan.” By succumbing to secularism, he noted on another occasion, the West was trending toward “chaotic darkness” and a “return to a primitive state.”

How do I know these "religionists" are atheists? Because people are what they do.

They've worked diligently to destroy Biblical authority and credibility by siding with "higher critics" of the Bible.  Criticism that's easily overcome by ardent students of history and the Bible, which is what they're supposed to be.  They don't study the Bible, their Seminaries mostly don't teach the Bible, they don't defend the Bible, they don't understand the Bible and they don't believe the Bible. Ask any one of them to intelligently defend against the Theory of Evolution.  It won't happen,  Yet a mere bug man can make a rational, intelligent and science based argument against Evolution that an atheist scientist friend called "brilliant'. 

If they work so hard to undermine that which is supposed to be the moral, intellectual, and philosophical foundation of their faith, it simply means they don't believe in their faith, which has to mean they're lying about being believers.  No matter what they publicly proclaim, they're functionally atheists.

Atheists who then claim they do good work! Well, here's the reality of their so-called good works as outlined in Matthew Chapter 7, starting with verse 15:

• 15: “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
• 16. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
• 17. Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
• 18. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
• 19. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
• 20. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
• 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• 22.  Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’
• 23. Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Whether you are a believer or a non-believer, it can't be disputed these wolves have been devouring their flocks of faithful sheep.  Everything they do undermines everything that's foundational to Western civilization.  Stalin would be proud!

But I have no doubt society is now taking, and will continue take, this emotional and intellectual stand: "If this is what you stand for, who needs you?"

Definition leads to clarity! What we need is a good dose of clarity. It's clear, if allowed to continue, they've doomed their religions, Western Civilization and society as a whole to whatever left wing philosophical flavor of the day that becomes the popular narrative.

They will leave in their wake of heresy a foundation of quicksand.