Liberal “Tolerance”

 

Here’s another example of how liberals view tolerance.

As we noted yesterday, Pennsylvania State University has shut down Jewish student Joshua Stulman’s art exhibit about the effects of Palestinian terrorism, saying it “did not promote cultural diversity or opportunities for democratic dialogue.”

It should be pointed out that in 2003, Penn State paid for the Muslim Student Association (MSA) to hold an event called “Islam Awareness Week,” and the MSA used Penn State’s money to invite a blatant, long-discredited antisemite with ties to neo-Nazi groups to speak—the “Reverend” William W. Baker, former chairman of the hate group known as the Populist Party.

Anything that they agree with they tolerate and anything that they do not agree with gets some sort of label so they can dispense with it.  And what about the second pillar of the liberal religion, namely “diversity.”  Diversity means diversity of liberal ideas not ideas generally.

R.I.P. Barnaby

 

CLEVELAND — A Cleveland broadcasting legend passed away Sunday.

Linn Sheldon, the man known best as “Barnaby,” died at the age of 86.

Sheldon started at WEWS-TV in 1948, one month after the station signed on the air for the first time.

During that time he played a character known as uncle Leslie.

In 1977, he appeared on the station’s 30th anniversary special with Fred Griffith.

He died Sunday morning at his home after a long illness. His wife and three children were at his side.

As a child growing in Cleveland, Barnaby was one of voices who spoke with and for children on the TV.  I remember him saying something like “If anybody calls, tell them Barnaby sez “hello,” and I think that you’re the most special person in the whole world–just you.”  Another guy would dress as Woodrow the Woodsman as one of the characters on his show.  Sheldon was cut from the same cloth as Fred Rogers (aka Mr. Rogers) of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood.  Both of these men spoke gently to children and encouraged good character unlike much of what passes for children’s TV programing today.

Into Paradise
May the Angels lead him into Paradise.
May the Martyrs receive him at his coming
and take him to Jerusalem, the Holy City.
May the Choirs of the Angels receive him,
and may he, with the once poor Lazarus,
have rest everlasting.
Amen.
-The Roman Ritual

PCUSA’s Feminine Side

 

Here’s a follow-up to my recent post concerning alternate expressions of the Holy Trinity being considered by the Presbyterian Church USA at their upcoming 217th General Assembly.  It seems that the question developed from a working group of ten who will ask that their 40 page work entitled “The Trinity: God’s Love Overflowing.”  The committee states:

“In recent years new ways of speaking of the Trinity in the prayer and theology of the church have been proposed.”  “Some of these proposals are helpful; some are unsatisfactory. What must be clear is that we cannot distinguish the persons of the Trinity simply by assigning different attributes or acts to each of the persons. The divine attributes are held in common by all three persons: all are holy, all are loving, all are wise and powerful. Similarly, an action of God cannot be restricted to one of the three persons. All of the acts of the triune God are indivisible.”

Yet the committee goes on to state:

Female imagery of the Triune God has yet to be adequately explored,” the report says. “The overflowing love of God finds expression in the biblical depiction of God as compassionate mother (Isa 49:15; 66:13), beloved child (Mt 3:17), and life-giving womb (Isa 46:3). The divine wisdom (hochmah in Hebrew, Sophia in Greek) is portrayed in the Bible as a woman who preaches in the streets, gives instruction, advocates justice, builds houses, and acts as a gracious hostess (Prov 1,8,9).(Emphasis mine)

Given that “the divine attributes are held in common,” what are we to think about the human nature of Christ himself (?herself)?  Will PCUSA baptize in the name of the “Mother, Child and Holy Womb?”  Does the “Child” take the church as his (her) bridegroom?

As I have said, this is the foul, putrid fruit of radical feminist theology. 

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.    G.K. Chesterton