The Anti War Song, "When Will They Ever Learn" Heard Again


Week after week there are articles in the Christian press about the breakup of the United Methodist Church. Anyone following Christian events knows this splintering off in denominations has happened to several others, both with foreign branches and within the U.S. The latest headline was about the Asian Methodist branch cutting itself off from the original organization, the United Methodist Church. 

People in the pews have been shoveling out money to fund missionaries for some centuries. There have been two of them in my own family's history. Even though churches marketing themselves as Christian still remain all over the world, the end of missionaries seems not far off. As some younger policy oriented preachers in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod point out frequently the U.S. needs to start new churches and stop its decline more than other countries. 

As the Methodist Church breaks up world wide we see the impact of culture. Instead of Western religious culture changing in these countries, the countries are changing the Western religions are being redesigned to fit nonwestern cultures. It amuses me to see the Catholic Church brag about its expansion into African cultures. Some of the countries have laws demanding death to gay people. Is it an accomplishment to have Jesus advocating this? 

As denominations find the countries they spend millions to Christianize fall into the world of the weird what are they doing about it. The Methodists are doing the right thing by saying goodbye to these countries. Will other Christian groups like Catholics and Baptists ever learn? 

Collecting money from the gullible in the pews to send to countries that do not need Christianity is disgusting.  

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