Another sign of the madness afflicting the West.

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(The Christian Post) – A United Church of Canada minister who declared that she doesn’t believe in God will be allowed to keep her position after reaching an agreement with church officials.

The Canadian Press reported last week that the settlement reached with the Rev. Gretta Vosper of Toronto is confidential, though both sides stated they are pleased with it.

The Right Rev. Richard Bott, who has led the United Church in Canada since July, pointed to the core values of faith in God and inclusiveness as part of the reason why Vosper will be allowed to continue her service.

"The dance between these core values, how they interact with and inform each other, is one that we continue to explore as followers of Jesus and children of the creator," he said. "As a Christian church, we continue to expect that ministers in the United Church of Canada will offer their leadership in accordance with our shared and agreed upon statements of faith."

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Some Canadian commentators have criticized the agreement, however, including The Star columnist Rosie DiManno.

DiManno argued in an op-ed on Sunday that the United Church has shown how "irrelevant" it is by allowing a minister who doesn't believe in God to continue leading one of its congregations.

"Carry on deleting all reference to God or a supernatural being in all sermons and rewritten hymns. Carry on expunging the Lord's Prayer.

Carry on with a fundamentally humanist dogma. Carry on conducting services as a community-centred attestation where everybody gets a shot at the microphone," she wrote, referring to the outcome stemming from canceling the ecclesiastical trial.

"But what a cross to bear that gigantic wooden crucifix at the front of the Church of the Master must be, constant reminder of everything this parish rejects," she added.

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https://www.christianpost.com/news/athei...-canada-228480/

Apparently this Church's "core values" don't include what it supposedly stands for ("as followers of Jesus and children of the creator,")