Methodist Church Goes Muslim

British Methodist Church Goes Islamic (The Christian Post)

Reflective of larger European trends, in which Islamic populations are burgeoning while Christians recede, an old Methodist church in Britain is now becoming a mosque.

Significantly, the local Methodists supported the Islamization of the former Mt. Zion Methodist Church, which was preceded by a heated debate by the town planning committee over the zoning approval. Decades ago, the dwindling congregation abandoned the church, which afterwards became a factory for scarves exported to the Middle East.

"This is a basic issue of human rights," said the Rev. Christopher Cheeseman, superintendent minister of the Clitheroe Methodist Circuit, as quoted in the United Methodist News Service. "These are people of faith who wish to find a place to worship." Cheeseman urged the zoning commissioners to approve the mosque's permit, which they did by a vote of 7-5.

Opposition to the mosque in the small city of Clitheroe, in northern England, was portrayed as bigoted by some church officials. Clitheroe's population of 14,000 has 300 Muslims who plan to worship in the former Methodist Church.

By some estimates, there are now 1.6 million Muslims in Britain, though it's not certain how many of them are active mosque goers. The Methodist Church of Great Britain has declined to fewer 300,000 members. Regular church attendance in Britain is believed to be about only about 6 percent among the nominally Christian majority. [snip]

And do Christian leaders who celebrate the removal of the cross from a church in favor of the Islamic crescent really honor their own faith? Or have they succombed to a new religion in which politically correct multiculturalism has displaced the Deity?

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[Rosemary]

Thank you. This is fantastic! Do you know what time Saturday (and today)? 37th District is MY district! I was sad about Juanita, even though she was a Democrat. Those things should not matter at those times. And they don't. Thanks.

[Debbie]

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[Rosemary]

What time is that radio show? I just love Atlas Shruggs. She is great, eh? Just like you are. *blush*

BTW, WTH?! (For the record, that means what the heck.) I am angry. I was raised in a Protestant/methodist Church. I did not capitalize the methodist because they are no longer Christians. Not the kind I would recognize anymore...This has been going on for a long time.

Some may disagree with me, but I do not believe women are to be pastors. Neither does the Bible! I do not believe adultorers, homosexuals, pedaphiles, thieves, (all practicing, of course) should be made the top person. If that is what they want, they are not following God.

Do you think I enjoy this? NO! I would love to become a Paster. IT IS NOT MY PLACE, therefore I try to please GOD the way HE wants me to. Period.

The only difference being, I don't walk around calling people names for their beliefs...A little telling, eh?

[John Kaiser]

This is what happens when you preach "social justice" and zero doctrine from the pulpit.