Monday, October 26, 2009

People who angrily storm out of churches

We've all had seen the dramatic exit from church by somebody. ("I'll have you know I've been running the membership committee for FIFTEEN YEARS. If everyone really wants someone else to run it this year, well, I can certainly see when I'm not wanted!," "I can't be a UU because the UUA is full of theists," "I can't be a UU because the UUA is full of atheists") Etc, etc, and soforth.

But rarely has a church been exited with the verbal panache displayed by Screenwriter and Movie Director Paul Haggis who writes a two-page letter so succinct and thoughtful to the leaders of the church of Scientology that it is frankly amazing that it came from the same dude who wrote "Million Dollar Baby."

CC

3 comments:

ogre said...

Wow. Now that's a stellar, gonna-leave-marks good-bye.

kimc said...

It's sad that there is so much dishonesty and discrimination in this world.

Robin Edgar said...

It's sad that there is so much dishonesty and discrimination in the U*U World Kim.

I could write a very siomilar letter to top level UUA leaders and it would be just as valid and damning. I could preserve whole sentences and possibly even some paragraphs completely intact, or almost intact. . .

How`s this just for starters?

The church's refusal to denounce the actions of these bigots, hypocrites and theophobes is cowardly. I can think of no other word. Silence is consent, Bill.

http://emersonavenger.blogspot.com/2006/12/complicit-silence-of-uua-president-bill.html

I refuse to consent.