Religion

I do searches regarding religion on Google from time to time. Just today, I searched for Atheists in Churches. One of the most interesting thing I found was several stories about an atheist minister at a United Church. After proceedings designed to decide whether she could continue serving as a minister, a positive decision was reached.

The surprise was that the United Church leadership decided that she could. Now, there's some good news that never found its way into the Religion Group. Since it's from late last year, I won't post any of the stories, but I have to wonder why they didn't find their way here.

Several putative Christians post regularly in the Religion Group. I use the word "putative," because at least one of those is always hesitant to describe beliefs in any detail at all, leaving me to wonder what they actually are.

There are positive stories with a religious emphasis. We don't see them, though, except as a poke in the eyes of the atheist members of the Group or with the obvious message that only religious people do good things. That's why I suggested to that person that he or she post some positive stories that demonstrate tolerance and acceptance by religious organizations.

I will wait to see if such stories appear.