Well I guess I have been out of touch. I haven’t been what you would call a practicing Episcopalian for who knows how many years.
I had no idea that the National Bishop was a woman and the Church had a made a huge Left Turn in it’s thinking.
Almost wish I could “Resign” from this organization. My Mother, if she were still alive, would not only be Shocked but Appalled as well.
The Left is slowly destroying Religion from within and trying to make as irrelevant and secular as possible, we have truly lost our way.
See #44 for her choice of hat.
One problems with Lefties is that they see any group and they want to immediately harness them to some political cause. It is a waste of time, in their minds, to have people gathering every week if they cannot be used to accomplish something “useful”.
The problem is that the Episcopal Church is having a difficult time getting them to gather in the first place.
I have tried to explain to my Vestry what I call “The Law of 90s”.
Say you have a bunch of political issues, each of which is a 90/10 prospect, which is to say it is supported by 90% of the population. These are things that “everybody” agrees on. Any politician would be crazy not to jump on the “right” side of all of these issues. It is a no-brainer.
Buy say you are trying to run a church. If you adopt five 90/10 positions, one after the other, you have angered 10%, then 19%, then 27%, then 34%, and finally 41% of your congregation. Furthermore, if somebody is so committed to an idea that he is willing to hold it even when it is a 10% proposition, it is probably something that he will quit a Parish over.
So by becoming polically activist, a church will drive people out the door, a little at a time. For most Episcopal parishes, if they lose 41% of their parishioners, they will close within a year.