Posted on 06/30/2008 4:48:33 AM PDT by moneyrunner
A dying newspaper industry views a Christian denomination that's growing, and breaking away from its colonial masters, and disapproves.
The NY Times is in critical condition and may soon be on life support, but as part of it's death struggle it has time to view an anti-colonial development with disdain.
JERUSALEM — Anglican conservatives, frustrated by the continuing stalemate over homosexuality in the Anglican Communion, declared Sunday that they would defy historic lines of authority and create a new power bloc within the communion led by a council predominantly of African archbishops.
The announcement came at the close of an unprecedented weeklong meeting in Jerusalem of Anglican conservatives who contend that they represent a majority of the 77 million members of the Anglican Communion.
The Times has two reporters on this story but note the use of the term "contend." It's used by the press to suggest that the claim is false without actually saying so. It should be fairly easy to determine how much of the Anglican church was represented at this conference, but that would spoil the pretense.
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Somebody please snip the plug off the life support system.
If Western decadents were not such a self-destructive bunch of slobs, you could almost feel sorry for them.
As it is, you can't help laughing as they sink deeper and deeper into the quicksand of their own making with their eyes squeezed shut and their hands over their ears.
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