So, I’m here, and I have no church in my town. Which sucks.
And it is really showing me the importance of community. I have absolutely no one in this town, who is Christian, like me, that I know of. I stress the last part, that I know of. Of course there are Christians like me in this town, I just haven’t met them. I stress “like me” as well. The Church of Sweden is all for gay marriage, and the majority of its members don’t believe in Jesus, according to a news article published last year (and who knows where their sources came from, but still, it made some sort of news). The worst part about that article though, is that, according to the article, an analyst with the Church of Sweden doesn’t really think that’s a problem *insert epic face palm*
The church is also apparently giving out “sex diplomas” as the newspaper would also have us believe.
Regardless of the sources, the fact that this can be published, and not later retracted, is worrisome enough. Continue reading →