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To: NKP_Vet

The Episcopal Church was on life support long before it bought into the gay agenda. It got rid of any belief or requirement that made its parishoners uncomfortable. It turned into a “feel good” religion. I actually had an Episcopal minister tell me once that he wasn’t sure if he believed in the divinity of Christ — that is no lie. When a church — any church — simply turns into a social services organization, it dies because there are plenty of other social services organizations around.


12 posted on 04/29/2013 7:42:26 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
When a church — any church — simply turns into a social services organization, it dies

That is what is happening to the female religious orders in the US. Many of them half a century ago threw out their habits and became social service organizations and threw out theology at the same time so that they could help girls get safe abortions etc., Those orders now send out incessant requests for donations to support their retired members because there are few young members now to take care of the elderly ones. The orders that maintained tradition, especially the contemplatives are full of new blood. Young women do not take vows to do social work. They go to work for the government for that.
In my parish there are nuns from two different orders represented; One is contemplative and the sisters are under 30 and dress like nuns. The other is a modernist order. Those sisters are senior citizens and dress in "civvies" and are not much concerned with religious orthodoxy or intensity. They are essentially clerks for the parish, in sinecures of a sort.

21 posted on 04/29/2013 8:30:44 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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