"By the time the dust had settled, Woodland Hills, which Boyd founded in 1992, had lost about 1,000 of its 5,000 members."

I find this heartening.  80% of the church stuck around, if the story is to be believed.  Perhaps all is not lost.  Of course, in Christianity, as is the case with Islam, it takes only a small percentage of the religious to give religion a terrible name.

It seems to me that religion, having "lig" as its stem, as in "ligature" and "ligament," ought to be about tying things together, rather than blowing things apart.

There is such a thing as separating the wheat from the chaff . . . but I'd like to believe that those 1,000 (20%) who left the church might reconsider.

I think we need to make a firm distinction between what we mean by "a Christian nation" and "a nation that has a lot of Christians in it."  I do not want my kids growing up in a theocratic state.

I salute the Reverand Boyd.

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