6 Responses for "Church Reviews"

1. bob hyatt September 12th, 2005 at 1:39 pm 1

   hey man-
   looks good so far! I enetered our church…
   a couple of questions, though…

   Unitarians? perhaps just there for the purpose of reviewing?

   also- no space to enter your church’s website! :)

2. James Paul September 13th, 2005 at 12:28 am 2

   Great idea! The WWW should offer subjective info helping people find great churches in their area. I’m in the car business and it’s amazing to me how much information is available to people before they call me for a car. Cheers!

3. pete wmson September 20th, 2005 at 5:09 pm 3

   Hey Drew…as you know, I’ve thrown up a link and some comments on my site about this. The first comment I received had to do with a concern that this would degenerate into a sort of flame session where the bulk of the site was taken up with tearing down ministries rather than promoting the good ones. Would you mind swinging by and handling that or maybe you could write something on your blog about that that the rest of us could point to?

   pete

4. George Holcomb June 13th, 2007 at 5:38 pm 4

   On the way to the Middle East, the Christians decided that only one of their goals was to wrest control of Jerusalem from the Muslims. A secondary task was to rid the world of as many non-Christians as possible - both Muslims and Jews. The Crusaders gave the Jews two choices in their slogan: “Christ-killers, embrace the Cross or die!” 12,000 Jews in the Rhine Valley alone were killed as the first Crusade passed through. Some Jewish writers refer to these events as the “first holocaust.” Once the army reached Jerusalem and broke through the city walls, they slaughtered all the inhabitants that they could find (men, women, children, newborns). After locating about 6,000 Jews holed up in the synagogue, they set the building on fire; the Jews were burned alive. The Crusaders found that about 30,000 Muslims had fled to the al Aqsa Mosque. The Muslim were also slaughtered without mercy. The Roman Catholic church taught that going to war against the “Infidels” was an act of Christian penance. If a believer was killed during a crusade, he would bypass purgatory, and be taken directly to heaven. By eliminating what might be many millennia of torture in Purgatory, many Christians were strongly motivated to volunteer for the crusades. “After pronouncing a solemn vow, each warrior received a cross from the hands of the pope or his legates, and was thenceforth considered a soldier of the Church.” 3

   These mass killings were repeated during each of the 8 additional crusades until the final, 9th, crusade in 1272 CE. Both Christians and Muslims believed that they were fighting on God’s side against Satan; they believed that if they died on the battlefield they would be given preferential treatment in the Christian Heaven or the Muslim Paradise. Battles were fought with a terrible fierceness and a massive loss of life. Over a 200 year period, perhaps 200,000 people were killed. The Muslim warrior Salah a-Din subsequently recaptured Jerusalem from the Christians.
   Christians hate witches that why the burnt them.
   What they eventually ended up with was a collection of numbers far lower that originally suspected. In fact, modern scholars place the actual Burning Times death toll at between 40,000 and 200,000

5. Pat May 9th, 2008 at 7:02 pm 5

   I’m wondering why Westerly Road Church has an ad at the top of this page. Is it just that Google is recognizing that it’s near where I live? I’ve had a really abusive experience there and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

6. Melissa July 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm 6

   Hi great idea, a hugely needed service. Our family just moved to Keller TX and we have gone months now visiting different churches but the process is so slow because none of te churches have been reviewed and we can only visit one church a week. I wish we could tell each church why they were not the church for us. You have a great start on the website, if I could suggest a couple of things, perhaps you could include a simple church search engine that searches based on distance from zipcode, denomination, and size. And perhaps a place to put reviews. Thanks and good work