Posted on 04/28/2007 2:30:05 PM PDT by fgoodwin
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Interesting choice of words: Bellwether. A wether is a castrated ram, and a bellwether is a wether who leads the rest of the flock (and who therefore wears a bell).
I find this rather hard to believe.
How many colonies had, as their official church, the Episcopal church?
Didn’t the Episcopalians eventually comprise most of the Federalist Party, and weren’t they, for the most part, opposed to the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson prior to and during his presidency?
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There has been a long and often close relationship between
the Anglican and Catholic Churches. In certain situations
there remains a mutual recognition of the validity of key
doctrines, liturgies, and practices. And the Catholic
Church continues to hold the faith and moral teachings as
taught by the Apostles.
I understand that there is also an Anglican Use liturgy
within the Catholic Church, wherein the Book of Common Prayer
is used for the Mass (with minor updates). So there is no need
to lose the liturgy Anglicans may be familiar with.
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posted on 08/05/2003 5:19 PM PDT by polemikos
FYI
Polite speech for a homosexual seminarians' conspiracy to overthrow the church.
Politically active homosexuals have worked for 50 years to obtain by fraud the moral endorsement of a mainline church for their paraphilia. They're after the Presbyterians, Methodists, and Lutherans, too. They know they won't get Rome.
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Does that number include President Davis, who was Episcopal?
Virginia did, and it remained established after ratification of the Constitution. (And disestablishment was a slug in the financial guts.) Mind you, my impression is that one could believe a lot (or a little) and still be an Episcopalian. It wasn't a very theologically specific church.
Then you get that weirdness like the Church funeral for Versace.
“America once an Episcopalian nation”
And the West was once Orthodox Christian!!!!
http://www.orthodoxdetroit.com/
And the Southwest was Catholic. ;-)
Most Churches opposed Jefferson, because he denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. He was not a Christian.
Demography is destiny.
To populate is to govern.
The decline of the Episcopal Church (and the similar decline of the Congregationalists in New England) is a radical example of what happens to those who practice birth control.
It just goes to show that there's more to conservatism than adhering to the religion of one's founders! Look where we'd all be today if we were still an Episcopalian nation!
As an Episcopalian, can I receive the Eucharist if I attend Catholic Mass?
But so many other denominations arose and grew because ordinary people didn't feel the Anglican/Episcopalian establishment spoke for them. It looked distant, unconcerned, and tepid about religious faith, so people became Baptists or Methodists or joined another, more evangelical church.
Right now, there's some controversy among historians over which tradition was more important in American history: the older, more established churches like the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists, or more evangelical, enthusiastic, and proselytizing denominations.
Codswallop. The problem of the Episcopal Church today is the problem of America's schools, colleges and universities. All of these are administered by leftists. In college students get indoctrinated in deconstructionism, Lacanianism, feminism, queer theory, multiculturalism, and identity politics. Students take these ideas with them when then enroll in seminaries. Theology then reflects this nonsense.
Until the schools are reformed, the moral relativism of the educationists will continue to infect every institution in America, whether secular of religious.
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