I'm not sure if it's the money that they want, although that does figure into the equation.
I believe that TEC's national leadership has such an intense hatred for us for challenging their authority that they want to grind us into the ground, homeless, mired in litigation. This fight is personal now...remember that Lee threatened to go after the individual clergy and vestry members of the parishes and hold them PERSONALLY responsible.
The spirit in control of TEC is not of our God.
TEC is a dead church now.
That is up to you - I am a catholic, around the corner at St. James.
I'm not sure if it's the money that they want, although that does figure into the equation.
Well, the property is one thing and the $14 million a year tithers are another. If (God forbid!) ECUSA can take the property the vast majority of tithers won't go with it.
And I agree, rabscuttle385, about the degree of hatred and fury TEC's leadership has for the dissenters. After all, the rank and file had put up with so much from the 1960s on that they weren't supposed to be rebelling; they were expected to sit down and shut up as usual. It always blew over before, y'know.
BTW, rab, I've read your impressive home page and if nobody has welcomed you to FR, I'd like to be the first.
Of course, you should have been doing the normal newbie services; bringing the coffee and the doughnuts every day for a while. But at the end of your probation period, you will be expected to pass the FR final exam: that is, you will stand naked in front of your computer screen and sing "I'm a little teapot". Your performance will be graded against all past ones and after all the votes are in, management will let you know how well you did. Good luck!