UNION SEMINARY EMBRACES ANIMISM, CONFESSES & MAKES OFFERINGS TO PLANTS

UNION SEMINARY EMBRACES ANIMISM, 

CONFESSES & MAKES OFFERINGS TO PLANTS 

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/union-seminary-embraces-animism-confesses-and-makes-offerings-to-plants/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Romans 1:25

Reformation Charlotte   September 18, 2019

If you want a glimpse of where the Southern Baptist Convention is heading barring a merciful hand-slap from God, just watch the liberal denominations. Recently, Reformation Charlotte reported on a liberal Presbyterian church that placed a pagan deity in their sanctuary. No doubt, idolatry and progressivism go hand-in-hand.

Union seminary — which was home to the father of modern Black Liberation Theology, James Cone — is by far one of the most downgraded seminaries in the US today. It has completely abandoned the gospel in favor of social justice. It comes, therefore, as no surprise that the seminary would abandon God in favor of idols.

What’s interesting, however, is the particular path they’ve chosen for their idolatry and their unique form of idol worship. It is peculiar, and not something we’ve seen in anything that claims Christianity — at least not in Western Civilization.

Plant and animal worship is typically unique to Eastern mysticism as well as Native American and other forms of animism. According to this definition, which I believe sums it up quite well,

Animism is the doctrine that every natural thing in the universe has a soul. If you believe in animism, you believe that ostriches, cactuses, mountains, and thunder are all spiritual beings.

This appears to be exactly what Union Seminary has embraced as they recently announced on Twitter that they “confessed to plants” and expressed “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.” Completely absurd.

“Today in chapel, we confessed to plants.  Together we held our grief, joy, regret, guilt, hope and sorrow in prayer; offer them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.”

Animism

Animism is the doctrine that every natural thing in the universe has a soul. If you believe in animism, you believe that ostriches, cactuses, mountains, and thunder are all spiritual beings.

Animism comes from the Latin word anima, meaning life, or soul. People often think of “primitive” beliefs when they think of animism, but you’ll find the belief in the spiritual life of natural objects in all major religions. If you have ever felt that a star is more profound than a cluster of hot rock or gas a long way away, then you have a sense of what animism is.

(Publisher’s comment:  As far left as the SBC leadership is heading, I don’t think Union Seminary in New York City is an SBC Institution.  According to Wikipedia it is a Non-denominational protestant seminary.  At one time it was an orthodox seminary, but obviously it is no longer.”)  

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