[Dagwood]

Sadly??? No, it's a good thing. People are able to read and decipher for themselves what God's word says and what it will take to get to Heaven.

So many preachers have taken the Bible, meant to be a foundation for Christian living, and have gone ahead and built the house, walls and all. The UPC is nothing but a generational cycle of traditions passed down from one person to another without even the remote possibility of cross-examining what's being passed down.

So, to those who keep their traditions without the subliminal message "you're going to Hell if you don't abide by these rules," you have my respect. For the others, like OPII, who continue their over-religious, ultra-traditional, non-Biblical, and quite frankly poor judgemental non-sense, see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya 'cause I've already been down that road since it was so narrow and off balance. The more people wake up and realize all the rules, regulations, and standards are totally not of God, and will actually experience grace as it was meant to be in the Bible, then I think we'll hear of more stories of redemption and grace coming from people who have either never experienced God before or those who've been cast to the curb since they didn't measure up to a man's ridiculous rule the first time around...