Posted on 06/21/2006 12:53:53 PM PDT by lightman
COLUMBUS, OH: Bishop Katherine celebrates transgender Jesus
By Hans Zeiger VirtueOnline Correspondent www.virtueonline.org
COLUMBUS, OHIO (6/21/06)-While addressing a morning Eucharist at the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop-elect Katherine Jefferts Schori declared, "Our mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation. And you and I are His children."
With Jefferts Schori as the leader-to-be of the Episcopal Chuch, it seems that the church will move beyond gender-inclusive language to transgender-inclusive language.
Yesterday however, the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops refused to even consider a resolution that would affirm the exclusive Lordship of Jesus Christ as "the only name by which any person may be saved." The Rev. Canon Eugene McDowell of the Diocese of North Carolina explained, "This type of language was used in 1920s and 1930s to alienate the type of people who were executed. It was called the Holocaust."
Perhaps Episcopalians would be more receptive of a resolution affirming the supreme transexuality of
Oh, I think "dumping on conservatives" is quite a propos. Here she is with Louie Crew (LC in bold, Source: The Witness):
What about those who seem bent and determined to leave or to wound the body if they don't get their own way?She sounds downright inclusive, no?I think they need to be challenged, more so than they have been. I see signs of hope in the House of Bishops, an unwillingness to continue to put up with bad behavior. We haven't seen any action yet, but I think it is coming.
Do you have any sense of what that action might be? Would a verbal rebuke be enough?
It won't be enough in some cases, I am sure. But I have the sense that there is some desire to hold each other accountable for actions that are not canonical, for actions that have the appearance of being downright schismatic.
The laity got lazy after WWII.
Lord have mercy.
Primal Scream Here!
Now that is an abomination.
She must have had several of those brownies the night before...
But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jez'ebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her immorality.
Behold, I will throw her on a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her doings; and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve.
Revelation 2:20-23
This is the kind of nonsense one might hear at the local Unitarian church on any given Sunday.
Perchance she was drinking mushroom soup?
Still, this ranks up there with that. Swap out the butterflies for this trans-gendered Jesus, and the message is similar.
*snicker*
Blasphemy.
I am just shaking my head...
To the traditional Anglican FReepers out there, my prayers are with you.
I taaaalllkkk to the buuunnnniiiees and they taaaaalllllkkk to meeeeeeeeeee....
This is what St. Paul had in mind when he bade women be silent in church.
ARRGGGHHHH! Sometimes I wish God was still into the fire and brimstone thing. or maybe just a wee bit of a plague?
Between the New Yorkers not allowing a skating rink to play Christian music on a skate night and these churches becoming touchy-feely social clubs...think my head's gonna bust open.
They fired all their hellfire and damnation preachers.
Now they preach an inclusive message, where sin is nonexistent and God is a fairy.
Outside our local ELCA church there is a cross with a large butterfly on it. A Monarch, I think.
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