Posted on 10/11/2021 7:05:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two stories in today’s news—one about my state’s new Episcopalian bishop and the other about Pope Francis—impressed me because neither article had anything to do with bringing people closer to God. Instead, both were entirely concerned with issues near and dear to the leftist agenda: Racism and climate change. Perhaps both these faith leaders believe that their obligation to bring God to their parishioners goes without saying, but I thought His failure to be central to their thinking was telling.
The first story was about South Carolina’s new Episcopalian bishop, a woman named Ruth Woodliff-Stanley. She is notable for being South Carolina’s first female Episcopalian bishop in the state’s long history. She will lead 31 churches in the eastern half of South Carolina.
What’s so striking to me is that there isn’t a single mention in the article about Woodliff-Stanley’s role as a spiritual leader. Instead, the entire essay is about her plan to address racism.
The article opens by saying that her office has a large picture of Nelson Mandela. True, he fought against South Africa’s morally wrong apartheid system, but he was also a communist, which makes him an odd figure to be in a bishop’s office. Martin Luther King, after all, also fought against America’s apartheid system but he did so based upon his deeply held belief that all humans are children of God and are equal in His eyes.
But for Woodliff-Stanley, that picture embodies what she sees as her primary mission as bishop: “promoting justice and racial reconciliation in a state where many African American Episcopal congregations are still working to overcome legacies of discrimination. [snip] Her vision is to make the church more inclusive. She wants to uplift the voices of the diocese’s Black congregations and begin reaching out to Native American communities.”
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Anyone who looks to the Episcopal Church for spiritual guidance is too stupid to be helped. It was a church founded to legitimize depravity and hedonism. It remains loyal to the values of its founder, the hedonistic heretic Henry VIII. The Episcopalians are known in some Christian circles as “Lucifer’s Own”. Most of their “priests” are miserable lesbians.
Seems like just about every female clergy of the Episcopalian or Anglican denominations are purveyors of leftism. Her hyphenated name for one. Pope Frankie seems to serve his Argentina grown leftism in far greater measure than matters of the Christian faith.
Peoples souls became less important to religious leaders when those leaders became more concerned with managing a church as a For Profit type of business.
This is far from anything new. In the past century, it was not uncommon to hear of small, storefront churches. Even those tiny houses of faith have to pay rent or property tax.
It’s easy to become completely focused on bottom line issues.
What must be done to keep the money flowing in so that the church can be maintained, at least in a material sense?
2 Timothy 4.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
“Ministers” now want to be “liked” too much to be true ministers.
The same thing happened in 1517, and we know how that ends up.
Public schooled journalism hacks
Its hasn’t been important for almost 1500 years.
Bringing in the most amount of $$$ has been the most important since the 1400’s.
Leaders in most religions have been told to bring in more people, they need to “broaden their base”.
The end result is they are driving people away.
Which is the real goal of those advisors.
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