Cop lives matter

So, on the one year anniversary of the Michael Brown shooting a bunch of folks decide that the best way to celebrate is to shoot at cops, really?

Since this time last year about 60 police officers have been killed in the line of duty.  Shot, Assaulted, Hit by a car, Killed during pursuit.

Where are the folks out in the streets protesting this?

For that matter, where are the folks protesting the hundreds of young black men shot, stabbed, or otherwise killed in Chicago, by people who aren't white and aren't police.

The rank hypocrisy shown by a bunch of people gathering to protest against a narrative that has been proven to be false, (especially after the riots, looting, and burning) and the fact that at least some of them thought shooting cops is the way to celebrate is just appalling.

Why is this a problem?

TORONTO – An ordained United Church of Canada minister who believes in neither God nor Bible said Wednesday she is prepared to fight an unprecedented attempt to boot her from the pulpit for her beliefs. 

In an interview at her West Hill church, Rev. Gretta Vosper said congregants support her view that how you live is more important than what you believe in. 

“I don’t believe in…the god called God,” Vosper said. “Using the word gets in the way of sharing what I want to share.” 

Vosper, 57, who was ordained in 1993 and joined her east-end church in 1997, said the idea of an interventionist, supernatural being on which so much church doctrine is based belongs to an outdated world view. 

What’s important, she says, is that her views hearken to Christianity’s beginnings, before the focus shifted from how one lived to doctrinal belief in God, Jesus and the Bible.
“Is the Bible really the word of God? Was Jesus a person?” she said. 

“It’s mythology. We build a faith tradition upon it which shifted to find belief more important than how we lived.” 

In response, Nora Sanders, general secretary of the church’s General Council, issued a ruling in May laying out a review process that could ultimately lead to Vosper’s defrocking.

Essentially, Sanders said, the review should determine whether she was being faithful to her ordination vows, which included affirming a belief in “God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”

What we have is a pastor who openly admits she is an atheist, and argues that the Bible is "myth", being evaluated by her denomination to determine if she should be employed as a pastor in said denomination.   To be clear, she voluntarily affirmed a belief in God as a part of her ordination.  But hey, what's in a vow, right.   This is one more example of the direction that progressive christians are heading, and the fact that there are some who believe that it is perfectly fine to lie when taking ordination vows ( they wouldn't admit to lying, they just redefine the words so they can answer affirmatively without an overt lie) and to actively work to undermine the tenets of the group they lied to get in to.    

It seems as though atheist christian is a contradictory term.