Kathleen LundquistDEATH SPIRAL
Robert Munday illustrates the complete moral bankruptcy of the Episcopal Organization:
You wrote, "I believe that the call of our Presiding Bishop to be compassionate toward these two bishops is genuine..." Let me state emphatically that I do not believe this to be the case. Bishop Cox had already been received into another province. He should have been spared this action. The PB was informed that Betty Cox is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and that the action against Bishop Cox was causing her severe mental distress. The PB was informed of this publicly by Kendall Harmon at the clergy day during her trip to the Diocese of South Carolina. [You can watch the video of Kendall Harmon speaking to the Presiding Bishop about Bishop Cox here. It is approximately 7:00 minutes into Part 5 of the series.] Bishop Cox has said that the PB never contacted him except for the letters pertaining to his deposition. If she did not show compassion toward Bishop Cox prior to his deposition, what reason is there to believe that she will do so now?
Today [3/13/08] it became public that charges are being brought against the Rt. Rev. Edward MacBurney for his visit to a non-Episcopal church in San Diego. (Bishop MacBurney is the bishop who ordained me to the diaconate and priesthood.) The Diocese of Quincy informed 815 some time ago that the MacBurneys are dealing with a son who is in hospice care with terminal cancer. If the PB wanted to demonstrate compassion, she could have waited until later to deal with this (if it had to be done at all).
What is going on right now is a cold, calculated show of force; and no amount of dressing it up with language about compassion is going to change that reality. Those who for decades spoke of tolerance, compassion, and inclusion are now running the Episcopal Church; and it is turning out just like George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Absolutely vile.
Submitted by AnnieCOA
at 3/28/2008 1:25:42 PM| The Animal Farm analogy is stunning in its accuracy. Ouch. |
Submitted by Gregg the obscure_
at 3/28/2008 1:41:26 PM| When I was a little boy, a man who lived up the street was a proud member of the John Birch Society, so his vehicles had bumper stickers reading "You Can Always Trust a Communist . . . To Be a Communist!" Regardless of what you think of the Birchers, the main point is basically valid: what you believe influences what you do, even if you don't attain perfect consistency in living your ideals. As such, it's also true that you can always trust a "reappraiser" to do something other than to show respect for God, let alone neighbor. |
Submitted by Truth Unites... and Divides
at 3/28/2008 2:05:08 PM| "Absolutely vile." Yes. That describes political and theological liberalism when carried to its logical conclusion. Jesus said to pray for one's enemies and to love one's enemies. In fact, He died and was crucified for His enemies. What do you do when the vile, heinous enemy of God is not outside the Church, but is actually within the Church?!! And not just within the Church, but within the top leadership of the Church?!! Pray for them, and biblically separate from them. P.S. My tentative hypothesis is that the sniveling Institutionalists who are bemoaning the quickening suicide of TEc, their beloved false idol, greatly exacerbated the problem by refusing to use the linguistically correct terminology to describe the situation and its players. By refusing to call liberal revisionists "heretics" or "apostates" or "the enemy" (because it's not nice), they were unable to frame a useful conceptual diagnosis. And if you can't diagnose the disease, then you can't cure the disease. Linguistic cowardice by craven Institutionalists who are too afraid to offend helped create this mess. Let the pansies eat the droppings that they helped manufacture. |