Episcopal Bishop Issues Jihad Against Cartoon Depicting Jesus as "Son Of God" (Latest Parody News)

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[Apolitical]

EPISCOPAL BISHOP ISSUES JIHAD AGAINST CARTOON DEPICTING JESUS AS "SON OF GOD"



(Fire Island, NY) -- The Right Reverend Percy Dovetonsils III, Bishop Suffragan for the Diocese of Fire Island, Provincetown and San Francisco, today called for the beheading of the entire editorial staff of Catholic Monthly for publishing a cartoon in which Jesus of Nazareth is depicted as being the "Son of God."

The cartoon, published in the October 12, 2005 edition of the magazine, and titled "Jesus Raising Lazarus from the Dead," shows a halo-crowned Jesus miraculously bringing Lazarus back to life. In contemporary Episcopalian theology, all references to religion, miracles, holiness, God, and the Bible are considered to be blasphemous -- distracting believers from more important religious priorities such as promoting same-sex marriage and voting rights for illegal immigrants.

"The pictorial representation of the alleged divinity of the notorious Jewish political leader variously known as Jesus, the Son of Man, and the Son of God is deeply offensive to all progressive-minded Episcopalians," said Bishop Dovetonsils this morning at the annual Solidarity Breakfast of the anti-1st Amendment lobbying group, Episcopalians Against Christianity.......

[Apolitical]

Modern-day Christianity at its finest.....

[Apolitical]

Warning, this is satire.

[Moonmad27]

Percy Dovetonsils the THIRD? I'm just amazed that Ernie Kovacs' character Dovetonsils even had a child in the first place!

[GVnana]

Sad. But nearly true!

[Semper Paratus]

Leading Episcopals would be more upset at the 'Da Vinci Code' for potraying Christ as an active heterosexual.

[Grampa Dave]

Great! Thanks for posting this.

A little over a decade ago, a group of us interviewed some future priests at the local E seminary. It was amazing how many at that time were proud to say that they weren't Christians and were pushing Gay Sex and the liberal PC doxology.

Since then, some of us, have been saying only hire priests and assistant priests and select Bishops, who are Christians with the option to fire them if they lied about being Christians or lost the faith.

[drhogan]

does the Episcopal church hold to the belief that ordinations are sacraments? if so, it would seem that an ordination would automatically be invalid (in the sacramental sense, as opposed to the job-tenure sense) if the priest or bishop lied about his/her belief in Christianity.

[Louis Foxwell]

What we need is a jihad against non-Christian Christianity.

[Grampa Dave]

"Does the Episcopal church hold to the belief that ordinations are sacraments?"

It used to and many of E's like my wife and I still hold to those beliefs.

" If so, it would seem that an ordination would automatically be invalid (in the sacramental sense, as opposed to the job-tenure sense) if the priest or bishop lied about his/her belief in Christianity."

That makes sense to many of us. However, it is amazing how E's and others will say it is wrong not to hire or to fire a non believer. I caught flak on FR for advocating this standard a few years ago.

If we had demanded that all of our bishops, priests, and deacons reaffirm their beliefs as we state them in the Nicene Creed, the Baptism Orders and Reaffirmation of Baptism including the renouncement of evil, we would not be where we are today.

[Grampa Dave]

"What we need is a jihad against non-Christian Christianity."

You are right on target.

My poor Mother In Law was a life long Methodist. In her last few years, she didn't want to go to the church where she had been a member for over 80 years. In fact her will specifically said that her funeral services would not be at the M Church.

The insane liberalism of the Methodist Church started shortly after the Cuban Crisis with the decades long love affair for Castro. The members of a local Methodist Church have no choice or right of refusal re their ministers. They are selected by the Bishop. We know of former Methodists whose churches had raging lesbians or hostile gays so called ministers forced on them by their Bishops. When they and others complained, the Bishop told them to shut and to do whatever their Lesbian ministers told them to do. The smart ones left.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

"...all progressive-minded Episcopalians..."

And may Satan, himself, bow down to your worthy causes.

[BenLurkin]

"In contemporary Episcopalian theology, all references to religion, miracles, holiness, God, and the Bible are considered to be blasphemous -- distracting believers from more important religious priorities such as promoting same-sex marriage and voting rights for illegal immigrants."

[sitetest]

Ping!

[dangus]

Didn't they do that against Mel Gibson's depiction of Jesus?

[hdstmf]

Isn't Fire Island the resort of choice for the most extreme homosexual crowd?

[steve8714]

Will there be a split in the Communion?
Will traditional E's in the US go with the more orthodox Africans and Asians?
Will the ECUSA crumble under the weight of its godless hierarchy?

[Clint Williams]

ping

[Grampa Dave]

"Will there be a split in the Communion? "

I feel that we will have at least two churches before this decade is over.

The Catholic Church will probably welcome conservative married E Priests in this coming decade. Instead of a flow of ex Catholics to E churches, we will probably see the opposite happen.

"Will traditional E's in the US go with the more orthodox Africans and Asians?"

Yes. It is happening in a many places and will be happening even more when more open Gays become Bishops.

We will see the Left Wing Gay Bishops become the most intolerant leaders in the history of the Church. That will drive away more people, and more people will take the Church out of their wills. Many of our older parishes/dioceses have existed only because of their trust funds.

"Will the ECUSA crumble under the weight of its godless hierarchy?"

Yes. Like most liberal organizations, they will be short lived. Like all liberals, they are incapable of being prudent business people and leaders. They have to steal from the conservatives to keep their agendas going.

There is a lot of trust fund monies out there. The liberal Bishops need and want those trust funds. They will burn through any leftover trust money in a rapid fashion. Before this decade most of the liberal dioceses will be bankrupt, and the rest will go bankrupt early in the next decade. They will have zero tolerance for any parish that doesn't pay its assessment to the Gay Bishops. This will result in large scale closing of many borderline parishes re numbers of members and capability of funding the parish and the priest/priest without help.