Clergy at several hundred US churches on Sunday risked hellfire and damnation by suggesting that Charles Darwin is not the AntiChrist and the theory of evolution is not apostasy.
The churches (including at least three here in Kentucky) were participating in Evolution Sunday, an effort by moderate Christian churches to counter the anti-Darwin, anti-evolution diatribes by more conservative Christian groups.
From The New York Times article today:
At St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church, a small contemporary structure among the pricey homes of north Atlanta, the Rev. Patricia Templeton told the 85 worshipers gathered yesterday, “A faith that requires you to close your mind in order to believe is not much of a faith at all.”
I could not have said it better. Read the rest of the article here.
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