[C19fan]

Jefferts Schori said "heretical and individualistic understanding" contributes to problems like neglect for the environment and the current worldwide economic recession. "The sins of a few have wreaked havoc with the lives of many, as greed and dishonesty have destroyed livelihoods, educational possibilities, care for the aged, and multiple forms of creativity," she said. "And that's just the aftermath of Ponzi schemes for which a handful will go to jail."

According to this pagan witch if you are not part of the "Borg collective" you are a sinner. Notice there is no mention of Christ.

[carcraft]

Somebody much more theologically literate than I summed up the situation nicely and this is only a paraphrase With most homosexual issues in the Episcopal Church it is about I, me, my, (read one of Gene Robinson's statements) even to the point of threatening to destroy the Anglican community, now Bishop Schori tells us it is about being part of the collective. These folks can't have it both ways!

[r9etb]

According to this pagan witch if you are not part of the "Borg collective" you are a sinner. Notice there is no mention of Christ.

Well, no, that's untrue. If you really bother to look at it, she's espousing an almost Calvinist theology here. Look at what she said:

"It's caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus... That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy, at the center of existence, as the ground of being."

I disagree with Schori on a wide range of issues, but on this central point she is correct.

[Marysecretary]

No wonder the Episcopal Church is sliding towards hell. Too bad, too. She will rue the day she said this for God will not be mocked.