Hard to believe I was raised in the Episcopal Church. Hard to believe anyone is sitting in the pews of this ghastly, God-mocking sect on a Sunday morning.
My son is an Episcopal priest, and I heartily agree with you. I pray he will open his eyes. He’s a lib and much of what we say is just not intellectual enough I’m afraid. - This woman is an old tussy craving attention and power over people. Disgusting.
>> Hard to believe anyone is sitting in the pews of this ghastly, God-mocking sect on a Sunday morning.
There are very few lately. Actually when you get further away from the big cities (especially on the east coast), things get somewhat better.
My ex-church in the mountains west of Denver had about 220 communicants when the new dimwitted priestess (with a set of brass ovaries the size of a dumptruck) arrived 10 years ago. The few remaining vestry harpies and sacristy rats just put her on 3/4 time pay (after reducing her salary several times). The joint is about to revert to mission status.
I'm still there, formerly on the vestry, praying for miracles to restore this once-Godly church to its former glory. Unfortunately, it moves farther to the left each year...there are cries now for same-sex marriage rites to be incorporated into the Book of Common Prayer as well as turning the whole Rite I and II liturgical orders on their heads for "stituations" such as the Rev. Ragsdale describes. Pray!
According to Virtueonline.org there are only about 775,000 in church nationwide on an average Sunday, most of them aged. Many churches with no youth at all. Entire "Dioceses" with a mere couple thousand members all told.
Deaths outnumbering births 2 or 3 to one, with few of those births realistically joining the church, ever. Loss of actual members, 50,000 a year.
And all the while, ever more bizarre deviancies and perversions in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the profile of a church in its death throes, right before our eyes. Ugly, but like a train wreck, hard to look away once you realize what is happening.