It’s time to take back the rainbow. It’s time to let the Liberals, out-there churches and the LGBTQIA2S community know that they do not have a trademark on God’s rainbow and that we hetero-normie Jews and Christians will be displaying, talking about and claiming rainbows on a go-forward basis. The LGBTQIA2S’s may mock God, but we will not be part of mocking God with any “Sparkle Creed”. Take your Devils and sulfur and go reap what you sow, blasphemers.
Part of the Liberal/Progressive stance on religion is erasing the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and replacing him with the State. Which is why both Obama and Biden left God out of calls for a National Day of Prayer. Liberals/Progressives worship the sacrament of abortion as performed by the Trans/Drag Queen priests. They have their own religious order, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Additionally, the Biblical rainbow is a promise from God (more on this later) and has seven colors. The LGBTQIA2S has eight colors or six colors or… oh Heck, who knows. The history of the “rainbow flag” takes many forms:
“A Rainbow Flag was a conscious choice, natural and necessary. The rainbow came from earliest recorded history as a symbol of hope,” Baker wrote. “In the Book of Genesis, it appeared as proof of a covenant between God and all living creatures. It was also found in Chinese, Egyptian and Native American history. A Rainbow Flag would be our modern alternative to the pink triangle. Now the rioters who claimed their freedom at the Stonewall Bar in 1969 would have their own symbol of liberation.”
That’s an interesting phrase “natural and necessary”, isn’t it. The rainbow is found in nature and it is “necessary” for the Gay community to coopt a Biblical symbol. Cogitate upon that for a while.
Now we have the Sparkle Creed. The Sparkle Creed is the Apostolic Creed rewritten to mock God, virtue signal all over Hell and half of Georgia, and amplify the sin of Pride. One would have to be very Prideful to mock God. And that is what “Reverend” Rachel Small Stokes was feeling when she wrote the Sparkle Creed
:I believe in the non-binary God whose pronouns are plural.
I believe in Jesus Christ, their child, who wore a fabulous tunic and had two dads, and who saw everyone as a sibling child of God.
I believe in the rainbow Spirit, who shatters our image of one white light and refracts it into a rainbow of gorgeous diversity.
I believe in the church of everyday saints, as numerous, creative, and resilient as patches on the AIDS quilt, whose feet are grounded in mud and whose eyes gaze at the stars in Wonder.
I believe in the calling to each of us, that love is love is love, so beloved, let us love.
I believe, glorious God. Help my unbelief.
Amen.
Close your mouth. It’s for real. Here is Pastor Anna Helgen of the Edina Lutheran Community Church of Minnesota reciting the Sparkle Creed along with the Congregation.
This is the funniest thing you'll see all day (and I swear it is 100 percent real). Pastor Anna Helgen of the Edina Community Lutheran Church leads her ultra-woke congregation in the "Sparkle Creed." Seriously, this is not a parody. pic.twitter.com/9yPwB0jWQg
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) June 28, 2023
These profane words were written by Reverend Rachel Small-Stokes, Pastor of the Immanuel United Church of Christ (UCC) in Louisville, Kentucky. All of the UCC facilities that I have ever heard of have always been Hippy Jesus, Do Your Thing, Cafeteria-style churches, so we shouldn’t be surprised that it came out of that, I hesitate to call it a, domination. Here is the demoniac inspiration for this Creed:
In a Facebook post, Rachel revealed that she came up with the version when she voice-texted the “Apostle’s Creed” to a colleague, and her device translated it to the “Sparkle Creed”.
Kenwood Baptist Church did a fine job with me at Sunday School, Baptist Youth, and Vacation Bible Camp, because if voice text translated Apostle to Sparkle, I wouldn’t think to blaspheme the Lord. The Evangelical Lutheran Church as been into the queering of the Bible and lots of Marxism forever. I like this answer from Exposing ELCA:
The Angel Gabriel told Mary that she would give birth to a SON. There are so many places in scripture to refer to Jesus as being a male, that you have absolutely no other alternative unless you are being completely dishonest.
Theologically, her argument is even worse. While we may perhaps think of the Trinitarian Godhead as being “genderless” given the some the Hebrew and Greek nouns used in scripture of the names of God in scripture, you cannot call God “non-binary”. God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is never referred to as a “she” or “her” but He is constantly referred to as being masculine. So the language of the names of God in scripture is not neutral enough to call Him non-binary.
Jesus had a “fabulous tunic”? He had the tunic of any middle class child of that time. Two Fathers? Well, technically, we all have two fathers. We have our Earthly Father and we have our Heavenly Father. But this blows up her whole argument, doesn’t it. Two fathers would imply male pronouns which would be offensive to the non-binary. The Rainbow Spirit shatters white light. I think she meant this to do with race. I reject this interpretation too. Prisms don’t shatter anything to convert it to a rainbow. The colors were ALWAYS in the white light, the prism distills them. Shatter that, evil one. Feet grounded in mud? Puh-leeze. Has that female ever read a Bible. Coming before God with clean feet is a sign of respect.
Look, I am a Christian. I am not a good Christian. I try, but I fail, all the time. These people can all themselves many things, but Godly or Christian are not two of those things. I think we need the Blood of Jesus to redeem us from this apostasy:
Hallelujah!
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There are sadly enough, very large numbers of people, that are going to find the afterlife uncomfortably warm.
To rephrase Scott’s statement:
There are an awful lot of people who will “wake” and wonder why they’re standing with all these goats.
(Matthew 25:31-46)
I’m very glad you called out the ELCA, Toni. Us Biblically-inclined Lutherans don’t accept them as fellow Lutherans.* I might disagree with some of my other Lutheran brethren about their doctrine, but I can discuss with them using Scripture. Not so much the ELCA.
It’s long been interesting to me that a month to celebrate perversion has the title “Pride Month,” as Pride is the first and chief sin. It was pride (“You’ll be like God”) that led Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. And it is Pride that leads one to put oneself at the head of all things.
There is only one way to Heaven, and it ain’t Progressivism. That way lies damnation and ruin. Christ alone – which requires humility. You can’t pull yourself up – you can only be pulled up.
Sola scriptura, Sola fide, Sola gratia.
(* There was a great ecumenicism going on in the 70s. All of the various Lutheran denominations were going to unite. But the folks leading that unification started stressing they would follow culture rather than God, and the Missouri Synod and some others – notably Wisconsin – pulled out. They tried with a hymnal** in the 80s, and Missouri and Wisconsin pulled out of that one, too. It’s been an ugly downhill slide to the “Sparkle Creed” but it’s got further still to go.)
(** One of the sticking points with the unified hymnal was a few hymn choices, and an occasional PC editing of lyrics. But the one that always got me was the insistence on keeping “holy catholic church” but changing “descended into hell” to “descended to the dead”. Changing “catholic” to “Christian” avoids confusion, but changing “hell” to “dead” changes theology.)
The English actor Laurence Fox has expressed similar sentiments in an apparently deliberate challenge to UK laws about ‘hate speech’ and posted pictures as he wore a faux Pride T-shirt and burned alphabet flags in his back yard:
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His shirt reads ‘Pride cometh before a fall’.
He won’t be able to do that in Michigan either very soon.
Isn’t it wonderful how freedom of speech, opinion and thought is restricted to the select favourites of the progressive Left.
It’s going to get to to where normal people won’t care and will push ahead anyways.
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