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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

Today's Picture: Church of Sweden Embraces Gay Marriage

October 26, 2009 01:04 PM ET | Dan Gilgoff | Permanent Link | Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

 

(AP Photo/Scanpix, Staffan Claesson)

Delegates of Sweden's Lutheran Church vote to allow church-sanctioned gay marriages at its annual meeting last week. Sweden legalized gay marriage five months ago. Roughly 3 in 4 Swedes are members of the Lutheran Church, which until 2000 was Sweden's state church, according to AFP.

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Holy spirit directed me

i'm so impressed holy spirit directed my to search for your church on net. i didn't know that i can see a church that holy spirit is in the church in sweden. i thank God almight for your church. and holy spirit told me that on sunday you should pray for you country.

Yours faithfully

pastor faji

Nigeria

Come to the Catholic Church and Leave all this behind!

Just another way God is telling all Christian to join the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation the churches it created is obviously no longer God's answer to anything. However, Christ has never departed the Church of Rome as He has so obviously left the Lutheran Church.

I Didn"t Know....

that God was a "progressive relativist" - Hey! In that case let's start another religion that invents a God who reflects our ideas and perceptions.... Kinda like little kids do with dress up dolls. We can have our God talk and think like us and everything! There is no sin because our God wouldn't believe in sin - Oh, what a wonderful, inclusive, tolerant, non judgmental world! I wish Tiny Tim had lived to see it... I'm just so giddy - I feel like clapping and singing...

Maybe we can make "auradawn" our Goddess - she knows so much about religion and God and all... But if she makes us all Kool-Aid we probably shouldn't drink it - should we?.

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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