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I’ve commented on the recent madness from the ECUSA and the Presbyterians from an ecclesiastical perspective on American Orthodox. But even if you take the trumpeting elephant out of the room, it’s still madness.
As I said in a comment on Orthodixie, this is insane even if you take “church” entirely out of the equation. So let’s do that, forget that we’re talking about an ecclesiastical body, and look at it from a purely organizational perspective.
For the last twenty years or more, the ECUSA has been pushing the envelope, and in so doing, has strained the Anglican Communion almost to the breaking point. Gay priests. Women priests. Women bishops. Gay bishops. All this along with an affection for heretical clergy has pushed the Anglicans almost to the point of schism.
So at the convention, they decided to first elect a female bishop as the primate, and refused to put even a temporary moratorium on consecrating gay bishops. This was their response to the other Anglican bodies.
What was the purpose of this insane behavior? Are they trying really hard to force a schism? What other explanation is there for this organizationally self-destructive behavior? What are they trying to accomplish?
And it isn’t only the effect on the Anglican Communion, either. The ECUSA has been obsessed with ecumenism, possibly more than any other church I can think of, for twenty years. So why would they essentially cut their own throats with respect to any possible intercommunion with the Roman Catholic or Orthodox churches? Again, what are they doing?
I really don’t get it. It’s surely the most irrational behavior I’ve seen in a long time (and yes, that includes the Kos Kidz and liberals in general).
tony:
Greetings from South America where, like Africa and elsewhere there are still faithful anglicans, faithful that is to the Bible, Creeds and the Reformation 39 Articles of Faith that distinguish us from other christians.
July 24, 2006, 4:21 pmMy liitle grain of sand would be to say that when any church or believer for that matter ’shelves’ the Scriptures and decides they know better, not heeding the loving warnings of their fellow believers, then they get what they deserve!
p.s. for your “twenty years”, read 30 I would say, even 40, with the swinging sixties being the start of theis liberal trend, ending up with the universalist, ‘ecumenical’ (with other religions that is now) spineless christianity!