Posted on 10/05/2025 1:50:48 AM PDT by Morgana
There but for the grace of God go we...
For 100+ years the Anglicans and their various wings have been the canary in the coal mine of liberal Christianity. They were first out of the gate on contraception, first out of the gate on divorce, first out of the gate on embracing homosexuality, etc. etc. Mrs Mullaly is the ultimate endpoint of their silliness. But for us non-Anglicans it’s also a dire warning to resist and reject liberalism in our own churches.
Liberals in the Church Power Hierarchies are destroying all the protestant denominations. They are literally Pushing People Away from the Church! They are killing the Gospel.
Christianity Today said that 40% of the people leaving the mainline churches say they are leaving because of Liberals in Positions of Power.
Really?
I would say
first the unitarians
Then the congregationalists
Then the angelicans/Episcopalians
“a dire warning to resist and reject liberalism in our own churches.”
That’s difficult to do for those wanting to do goodness out of the kindness in their hearts. Such as financially support bringing into the Minneapolis/St Paul area thousands of America hating Somali’s. My understanding is the Lutheran church is responsible for this.
There are many areas where those wishing to be do-gooders follow the lead of progressives and actually feel good about it.
Okay, fair enough, perhaps the denominations that you cite were ahead of the Anglicans/Episcopalians on contraception and sexual morality by 10-15 years, embracing Margaret Sanger & Co from the get-go. But we’re talking about tiny churches with like 1 or 2 millions adherents worldwide. The Anglicans were and are 100x bigger, so how about we that they were the canary in the coal mine for liberalism in large Christian denominations?
More Anglicans will now join the Catholic Church under the Pope. Anglicans dogma has always been closer to Rome than other Protestant churches because they accept the virgin birth, etc. (The title “defender of the faith” was given to Henry VII by Pope X for his book defending the supremacy of the pope, and rejecting Marin Luther’s teachings.) Rome has been welcoming back Anglicans and Episcopalians since the 80s, and the movement is growing the more that these churches reject traditional values and go woke.
More Anglicans will now join the Catholic Church under the Pope. Anglicans dogma has always been closer to Rome than other Protestant churches because they accept the virgin birth, etc. (The title “defender of the faith” was given to Henry VII by Pope X for his book defending the supremacy of the pope, and rejecting Marin Luther’s teachings.) Rome has been welcoming back Anglicans and Episcopalians since the 80s, and the movement is growing the more that these churches reject traditional values and go woke.
“Liberals in the Church Power Hierarchies are destroying all the protestant denominations.”
They ain’t doing Catholics a heck of a lot of good either! Progressivism in all it’s forms is antithetical to orthodox Christian belief.
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“For 100+ years the Anglicans and their various wings have been the canary in the coal mine of liberal Christianity. They were first out of the gate on...”
That’s because it is centered in Perfidious Albion. The nutjobs who live there are leading the West to its death and destruction.
The Church is simply returning to its roots. The rest are walking away.
The bishops are chosen by some committee, who recommends two choices to the Labour Prime Minister, who recommends to King Charles. Way back, they were really chosen by the king. Anyway, the prime minister or king could both object to this nonsense.
There is the Anglican Church of North America with about 1/8 of the members of the Episcopal Church. It uses the prayer book with the older language and is conservative on social issues.
There is also a smaller high church group, which Pope Benedict agreed to be under the pope, with its own bishops, mostly married clergy mostly trained in Anglican seminaries, and using the old Anglican prayer book, which is close to the translation and revision of the mass under Edward VI.
Yeah, the Unitarians have been into liberal politics and not religion for 50-100 years.
Start? The Anglican church has been “pro-choice” for well over a decade.
Dulally 😁
Because they accept the virgin birth? What Protestant church doesn’t accept the virgin birth? While the Catholic and Anglican church doctrines include virgin birth, you’re *far* more likely to find a Catholic or Anglican denying that than any Protestant.
Check your own glass house.
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