Tim Walz's Church Doesn't Call God 'Him.' And It Gets Weirder.

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Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz has called Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance 'weird.'

Let's talk about that word, 'weird.'

Would it be weird to claim to go to a Christian church that appears to prioritize political concerns like gender and racial identity over scripture? A church that promoted reparations for slavery?

A church that doesn't like to call God 'Him?'

Because Tim Walz is apparently into all of this and more.

And it gets worse. From The Daily Caller, "Walz, who is the governor of Minnesota, identified Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul as his parish during a 2020 briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials published by Pilgrim Lutheran Church instruct parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, push congregants to support reparation funds, encourage them to celebrate Ramadan, and include a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord’s Prayer, among other liberal practices."

The Daily Caller noted, "Pilgrim Lutheran Church is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a mainline protestant denomination that has been criticized by some conservative Christians for ordaining transgender and lesbian bishops as well as for its embrace of LGBT ideology."

Need to know more? Let's get weirder.

"Pilgrim Lutheran Church in 2015 approved 'guidelines for language in worship' wherein the congregation asserted that 'a patriarchal culture gave birth to the writing of scripture and the selection of the canon' and, to rectify the purported injustice, committed to using gender-neutral language to describe God," the story reported. "Members of the church, for instance, are encouraged to 'choose non-anthropomorphic language' like 'hen' or 'baker' to refer to God, and urged 'not to limit these by following them with male or female pronouns.'”

There's more but we will spare the gory details.

In America, we have freedom of religion, where every man can worship according to his own faith.

But that doesn't mean Americans can't have opinions about what that man chooses. It certainly doesn't mean Christians can't have opinions about those choices too.

Tim Walz's church is certainly outside the bounds of what most Americans and Christians would look at as a normal house of worship.

It's weird. Really weird. There's no other way to put it.

So... Tim Walz should probably be careful in using that word again in the future.

Don't expect to see any of this info in Harris-Walz campaign material.