A while back I posted here about Saint James United Church of Christ in Limerick, Pennsylvania, which had on its website the motto: “If you will but worship me, all will be yours” (Luke 4:7). You will note, of course, that these are the words of Satan during the wilderness temptations of Jesus.
I removed the post after a commenter proposed that hackers had put the motto up on the poor church’s site. Apparently not, since the church has now posted the following on its site:
For those of you who were kind enough to inform us about ourpreviously inaccurate quote…we thank you! We were recently made aware that the former quote we had posted in the header on our site was actually not based on the word of Jesus but was a quote posed to him during his temptation. As soon as we were made aware of this we removed the quote from our site. We removed it…not hackers as some ill-informed bloggers would have you believe. This lesson is a demonstration why when using tools online to identify quotes that you think deliver the honest and sincere message you intended you should always view the quotes in their whole context.
Inaccurate? Who said it was inaccurate? A United Church of Christ (UCC) hears Satan speaking and mistakes it for God.
This is all right above the “God Is Still Speaking” campaign logo, advertising the UCC’s trendy social and sexual liberalism.
It seems perfectly accurate to me, except perhaps that the word “god” shouldn’t be capitalized (2 Cor 4:4).
