Posted on 07/23/2006 4:00:26 PM PDT by 1066AD
When I was a Choir Boy, the CoE/Episcopal Church was known among my Protestant friends as a "Catholic Wannabe".
Now it appears they are "Unitarian Wannbe's".
If even that.
Bloody partypooper.
Seriously I hate travel. I haven't been more than 30 miles from Pittsburgh in the past 6 years.
But now I feel like flying to Australia or Lebanon.
I take great exception here. Take a good Irish, British, German or (best of all!) Belgian ales and serve them at American near-freezing temperatures and they lose their taste.
Take an enjoyable American beer (Rolling Rock, for example, befor A-H wrecks it) and serve them "European warm" -- and they don't taste as good either. OTOH, some of the American microbrews taste best near the "European" temperature range.
OTOH, if *your* preferred beer is Schlitz (Schmaltz or something like that, I think there was something worse, and if drunk at all it had to be at freezing temps) then I am sorry -- that was only given to my frat's "pledges" as part of their hazing.
British bangers&mash, pasties and a few other items aren't bad at all. Agreed, on my visits the cuisine wasn't great overall but there's far more difficult for an American to encounter in the world. Chickens' feet "dim sum" style near Hong Kong -- amazingly delicious (and if there is a next time I might try them knowingly)!
Me too! I'm a proud practitioner of "The Flight Free Lifestyle." It allows me to one-up Prius owners who nevertheless fly. (When they close their eyes self-righteously, I'm tempted to smack 'em . . . have to remember this next time I go to confession.)
Prius?? PFFFFT!
I proudly drive the Buick Roadmaster, which BTW for the record, is the most gas efficient 4000 lb. automobile with a 350 V-8 on the road in America today.
I'd say I'm doing my part for the enviro-weinies.
Even the original 707-300's were more efficient than tha ocean liners they replaced. One 707 could carry more passengers than an ocean liner, used less fuel per passenger, and a cost tenth of the capital cost of a ship.
Learn something new every day.
You might want to take a look at the world-wide Anglican Communion.
Guess what? You'll find that "North America, Canada and Britain," for all they grab headlines in... "North America, Canada and Britain"... are a really small element, collectively a single-digit participant.
Of course, you didn't qualify your statement so it can also be interpreted in the sense of "I can't think of a single adverse impact to Christianity if [any group OTHER THAN MINE] was grounded." And we certainly see a lot of _that_ on Free Republic.
But then, most everyone on FR belongs to "The One Single True Church (and guess what? it's mine)."
It's standard routine on FR to cut everyone else down so YOUR church looks good. And that is my basis for saying I will NEVER to go the Roman Catholic church, much less the known Fundies' -- I have never seen such hatred and thorough ignorance expressed in this forum as I have by Catholics, even (surprisingly) over and above the Fundies', of (formerly) mainstream churches.
Keep it up folks! Jesus doen't shine on through the churches who obscure His message with your sectarian bias, hatred and ignorance. When I see any of these I see a "church" operating on thoroughly false pretenses -- I see a trap laid by Satan, offering hate of its "competition" as its raison d'etre, über alles in der Welt .
Granted I don't read everything in this forum, but the Catholics seem to be the worst haters I see in virulence, numbers and ignorance. (I will accept excuses from the last for poor and sectarian-biased education.)
limousine liberals.....now cruise ship anglicans
I have no idea how you took that article about the Anglican church that believes it is a sin to fly, and came up with a comment that Catholics are haters. The only hate I see on this thread is your hate for Catholics. Glass houses and all that.
Very Talibanesque of the Bishop.
OK, so let me get this straight:
Flying IS a sin, but...
Homosexuality (which is mentioned in the Bible explicitly) may or may not be a sin, and is at the very least an open topic worthy of discussion at the Bishop level.
So what is the pennance for skepticism?
Should I say seven hail GeenpeacesierraclubAlGorenutjobs?
When was the last time you had your eyes checked? I think you need a new prescription./s
Interesting. I'll take your advice, only if you admit I did not write the first statement to which you responded. It would be hard to follow your advice knowing that you were wrong on the author of that statement.
Bingo!
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)
LOL - My vehicles: Ford F-150, Lincoln Towncar, '74 CJ5, Ford-F350.
I think the enviroweinies are getting ready to firebomb my barn.
The great irony about all of the folks ripping the good Archbish apart by saying that he is for homo sex but against air pollution is that this reflects an ignorance of the current situation.
This statement by Williams is precisely to cover his left flank because he *has* made moves to essentially cut the liberal homo lobby (i.e. most of the American Episcopal Church) out of the world-wide Anglican communion by telling them that they have to choose between their homosexual bishops and being a part of the Anglican communion. They are very mad at him right now, so he is throwing them a green bone and telling them to chew on it.
Granted, this is all pretty goofy, but then, England is a pretty goofy place these days, all in all.
I won't make any further comments other than to say that most churches have an awful lot to clean up in their own back-yards before they start in on someone else's. If anyone wants a list of problems in their church, they can contact me and give me the name of their church, and I'll be happy to help out -- either by myself providing a "to-do" list for them, or directing them to someone who can.
Until then, I'll primarily be tending to my own back yard.
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