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Originally Posted by Russ D
Your last line is my contention. As long as those in the Union sign a statement professing their Christianity then I can see no problem. If someone was not willing to do so, I'd say their reasoning would need to be studied.
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There are plenty of people who are absolutely emphatic about their religion, even though they don't believe 50% of what their religion requires. To them, they are a Christian, here is a Christian Union, why shouldn't they be its president?
I don't think there's any chance that an atheist would want to be president of the CU (the members of the CU would still have to elect them), but there is a good chance that a 'liberal Christian' would. You might want to study their reasoning for this - and good luck to you if you do, I tried for three years and never understood how someone can accept the Bible to such an extent and yet disregard parts of it at random. We had an alternative Christian society at Lampeter called the 'Student Christian Movement', which is characterised by having no common statement of belief at all. They were affiliated to the Students Union because they had no interest in preserving a permanent set of beliefs.