Apparently this represents ~0.9% of the U.S. population:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_United_States
Fuck yeah. I can’t remember what the presbetarians are about specifically. But we often forget that near half of christians are not pieces of shit, even as they may not understand the world completely.
The Evangelicals and Calvinists are giving every protestant a bad name. What with the whole cheering on drowning the world in lakes of blood and fire talk.
The evangelicals are fucking nutjobs that blindly believe a <200 year old reinterpretation by a guy who was essentially a grifter. There’s been a massive evangelical push recently where they’re proselytizing their faith.
Who is this 200 year old grifter? I am unfamiliar. I do remember a douchebag that championed the end of o the world and gave a date, and it passed, and he made another date, which passed, but the faithful never abandoned his bullshit.
I think that was in the 19th century though. I know in the 1830’s, then in the 1850’s or so, there was an explosion of these guys, the so called great awakenings.
Don’t be deceived, this church is a “face” church, and provides a mask of sensibility and veneer of respectability for the Christian faith.
In reality, they’re fleecing their parishioners just like every other, and making a bloody fortune on it. They should at least be forced to pay taxes like the rest of us.
If you want to see their true face, look at what they are doing in Uganda, for just one example.
You can agree with their position without approving of the organization. Not everything needs to be a purity test.
Can you point out or link for us what specifically PCUSA (and not some other conservative denomination) is doing that is bad in Uganda?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_Uganda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord’s_Resistance_Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Homosexuality_Act,_2023
You can start here. I stopped investigating once I saw video of “witches” being burned alive. I won’t provide a link to that.
That’s not PCUSA doing that? They’re not even in the same organization with each other. PCUSA is a part of the World Communion of Reformed Fellowships while that Uganda church you linked is with churches more like PCA in the competing far more conservative World Reformed Fellowship.
Wow, an American church standing up for what’s right instead of what’s Republican?!
I did not have that on my bingo card for this century. Well done them.
PCUSA and other mainline Protestant churches (ex. United Methodists, Evangelical Lutherans, Episcopalians, United Church of Christ etc.) are fairly resistlib coded and have protested or rebuked Trump and his policies many many times through his presidencies. It comes at a cost because they’ve been hemorrhaging conservative leaning people offended by their positions on immigration abortion social justice etc. to conservative alternatives (ex. PCA rather than PCUSA) or to new and growing churches in the “Evangelical” movement, and don’t get replaced because people more on the left are more likely leave the faith entirely than to go to a left-leaning church. But they still do protests and whatnot anyway, you just don’t hear much of them because their share of the population is much lower and less loud than the very vocal Evangelical section.
Does you use of “ex.” above mean “example” or “except”?
As an example is what I intended, as there are other right-leaning Presbyterian alternatives than PCA such as Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Bible Presbyterian Church and so on so forth so I didn’t want to spell out PCA as the only one.
Gotcha. Might I recommend using “e.g.” instead to avoid confusion in the future?
Will consider for the future but in all honesty probably forget
There’s a lot of denominations under the “Presbyterian” name. Some of them are typical conservatives, but others are progressive, marrying gay couples, ordaining women and openly gay pastors.
