New York’s non-denominational Union Theological Seminary (UTS) held a ceremony Tuesday where members of the community placed plants in the center of the chapel and confessed their sins to them.
“Today in chapel, we confessed to plants,” UTS tweeted, together with a picture of the ritual. “Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.”
On Wednesday, after receiving a fair amount of derisive feedback, the seminary sent out a flurry of tweets defending its actions.
“When Robin Wall Kimmerer spoke at Union last year, she concluded her lecture by tasking us—and all faith communities—to develop new liturgies by which to mourn, grieve, heal and change in response to our climate emergency,” one UTS tweet said. “We couldn’t be prouder to participate in this work.”
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What the....
ReplyDeleteWhat a mockery of something that people gold dear.
ReplyDeleteIdol worship....
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit plants have a great non-disclosure policy.
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact that they found people who thought this was a good idea?
ReplyDeleteI suppose when Jesus said, "many will come in my name, but know them by their works and not their words"...he forgot to include those pesky plants who just won't leave us alone....
especially those prickly cacti....
More evidence that Americans are insane and the Left wing nuts are trying to normalize it.
ReplyDeleteMore proof we need to have a IQ test before you can be allowed vote!
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ReplyDeleteJust a glimpse of what is going on in our seminaries these days... Like the universities, things ran off the tracks long ago.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils --1 Tim 4:1
I don't get are they guilt ridden vegans or something. Oh well there are far worse things they could be doing.
ReplyDelete10:59---EXACTLY --THIS IS INSANE
ReplyDeleteHow many plants died for those sins?
ReplyDeleteThere used to be places for people like this.
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