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Why LeavingUnited.com:

1. This site was created out of a pastoral concern for the faithful within UCC congregations where clergy regularly preach false things about Christianity, are openly hostile to the wider Christian church, or fail to teach people the wonderful truth about Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. While there are pockets of faithfulness in the UCC and lots of wonderfully faithful Christians in the UCC, communities and persons are increasingly being alientated by ulta-liberal and non-Christian forces within the denomination. By encouraging the faithful to leave now, we hope that they will be better spiritually prepared for the shift.
   
   
2. While doctrinally the UCC Articles of Faith express a faithful Christian doctrine, in practice the ethos and general practice of the United Church of Canada has allowed for a substantively different doctrinal expression to become accepted and dominant. The wonderful Methodist/Congregationalist/Presbyterian unity which gave rise to the UCC in the early 1900's was gradually squandered by leaders in the denomination who would seek doctrines which run contrary to the Articles of Faith, the wider Church and the Bible itself.
   
   
3. The dominant operating doctrine of the UCC has substituted an inclusive gospel for a redemptive one thereby denying the particularity of Christ's atonement in favour of a quasi-Hindu belief that all religions lead to God. The dominant leadership in the United Church of Canada has abandoned its trust in the Scriptures as our central authority in favour of personal experience and autonomy being the determining factor. Biblically centred Christians are label "fundamentalists", dismissed or marginalized.
   
   
4. Most new UCC clergy lie when asked whether they are "in essential agreement" with the denomination's formal doctrine. Lying is quietly encouraged by existing clergy OR the concept of being "in essential agreement" is refined to mean anything you want it to.
   
   
5. It is not uncommon to encounter UCC clergy who deny the divinity of Jesus, deny Jesus existed, deny the redemption of the cross, teach that there is no personal resurrection/afterlife, and deny the centrality of the Bible for the life of the church, amongst a host of other errors. With no evidence of any church discipline for these errors the denomination effectively gives affirmation to errors which clearly run contrary to the Basis of Union and the Articles of Faith.