Mike Rasberry who blogs at Ponderings discusses the National Council of Churches in National Council of Churches–A leftist Group of Individual Denominations.

Mr. Rasberry indicts each and every member of the organization, from the Orthodox and PNCC to the Quakers. He paints each and every Church as grossly liberal and supportive of every sort of evil, including abortion, although he does give a bye to American Conference of Catholic Bishops calling it a “rare exception to this group.”

The problems here are obvious and really enlightening as to the ignorance among certain Christians. Some Christians know nothing of their brothers and sisters. That ignorance starts in a refusal to study the policies and theologies of other Churches. Couple that with this mix of personal politics and religion and you get just this sort of diatribe. Of course Mr. Rasberry sees Roman Catholics as ok because they happen to have a good PR team which focuses almost solely on one or two hot issues — at least he’s read that in the MSM. If he really went deeper and understood the Roman Church’s anti-war, anti-death penalty, justice for immigrants, and pro-labor stances he would equally tar them as leftist whack jobs.

Lesson to be learned – if you are going to criticize thirty-five of thirty-six different Churches and encourage people to refuse their support, all based on personal politics – you will find yourself in a very lonely place. If you are going to deny Christian fellowship with the vast majority of those who still identify as Christians in this country then you might as well join the Westboro Baptist Church — Fred Phelps will welcome you.

Rather, I highly suggest study so you at least know what you’re criticizing. Learn what Churches really stand for. They just might agree with you on most things (or not). Then again, its easier to pick at the speck your perceive in someone else’s eye (Matthew 7:3-5).