Posted on 02/13/2021 6:03:42 PM PST by marshmallow
A Savanta ComRes poll was published just over a week ago on the political affiliation of Church leaders, and it hasn’t had much coverage. In fact, it doesn’t appear to have any media coverage at all, which is a little odd given the nuggets of insight it offers, not least of which being the fact that ‘Church leaders’ mental health takes a knock during lockdown’. The number of church leaders who said they had poor mental health doubled during 2020, apparently jumped from 7% to 15%. This is very concerning in the Body of Christ: if the mind is sick, the arms and legs are invariably impaired. The main media usually leap on such things as incontrovertible evidence of how bad the Tories have been in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic; how damaging Brexit is for the health of the economy and the essential wellbeing of society; and how Mrs Thatcher’s evil policies still haunt the country.
But more revealing is something tucked away on Table 8: “Q4a. Thinking back to the General Election that took on the 12th December 2019, which of the following parties did you vote for, or did you vote for another party?”
Just 6% of Anglican clergy voted Conservative. None in the Church of Scotland voted Conservative, and none in the Church in Wales voted Conservative.
And yet.. (wait for it..)
A whopping 40% of Anglican clergy voted Labour (remember, this was Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party), and 26% voted for the Liberal Democrats.
(Excerpt) Read more at archbishopcranmer.com ...
Reminds me of when the father of one of my high school friends went through seminary and was ordained in the Episcopal Church. He said he and one other guy were the only Republicans in their class. This was in the 80’s in the South. I doubt it has gotten better. Not much has.
6%? I find that very hard to believe. I would think the percentage of Anglican clergy would be no more than 1%. 2% tops.
Hypothesis: the vitality of any Christian denomination is inversely proportional to the ratio of liberals/leftists among its clergy.
As such, I’d expect a moribund sect like Anglicans/Episcopalians to be approaching 100% liberal/leftist clergy.
… the vitality of any Christian denomination is inversely proportional to the ratio of liberals/leftists among its clerg
The vitality of any Christian organization is inversely proportional to its orthodoxy
Inversely? I don’t think so. It seems the me that vitality is is directly proportional to orthodoxy.
But, I was "informed" by numerous FReepers that it didn't matter one whit that Trump's guy Neil Gorsuch joined an ultra-liberal SJW Episcopalian church with a "womyn" pastor spewing leftist garbage from the pulpit every week. He would magically vote just like Scalia did, because the Federalist Society said he was an "originalist"
How's that one been working out lately?
Lesson learned. Don’t trust the Federalist Society or the Heritage Foundation when it comes to endorsing judges.
Most conservatives hold their cards close to the vest, let the devils reveal themselves and dance, all the easier to identify them.
I would hope the Anglican church in America would be quite different because they’re the ones who left the liberal Episcopal Church because they were conservatives.
I wouldn’t vote Conservative either because the Tories are Tyrants led by Boris Johnson.
Back in the 40’s and before the Episcopal Church was known as the “Republican Party at Prayer.” My, my, how the world changes!
Misphrased, you are correct
I’m not surprised. The last Episcopal church I drove by had the fag flag prominently displayed out front.
What do you expect from the followers of a denomination founded by the depraved and decadent Henry VIII? The Anglicans are satanic.
Most of the clergy has gone worldly on the church and really need to be removed from the ministry. In our small county in the hills of Kentucky the county Baptist association director has to hunt for an open church on Sunday morning and especially Sunday evening and Wednesday evenings. The governor and media have people scared to death and in many cases people are just using the rona as an excuse not to attend church.
We have stayed open except for 2 weeks when the pastor and deacons had the rona. We practice the social distancing, masks if you want and no hand shaking protocols. Other local churches pastors and members have declared us as crazy, like snake handlers-nope not happening ever!, rebellious, we are bad neighbors and our pastor would not be allowed in many churches in the area for preaching “hate”, He preaches salvation and getting people saved but will not hesitate to call out a sin, even PC protected sins and rails against pastors who are ear ticklers. This in the mountains of Kentucky...
Why is anyone surprised by this? The Church was founded so Henry the VIII could have another wife.
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