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To: BnBlFlag
Well, there are a ton of them in OUR parish, so they're not all going Evangelical, not by a long shot.

If you're a broad- or high-church Piskie, really the Catholics are the only alternative if you don't want to join one of the breakaway groups (and the Anglican Communion worldwide has got some serious systemic problems, just not as far down the funnel as the Americans). If a former Episcopalian is serious about the Real Presence and the Apostolic Succession, that is (and a surprising number are, even if they don't call themselves high-churchers).

Low-churchers are more likely to join an Evangelical body, but they are in the minority everywhere but in the South, where suspicion of Catholicism has been slow to die in some quarters.

23 posted on 09/04/2009 7:08:47 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

We attend a Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod Church at present. I get sick every time I get near an Episcopal Church. And I loved the Episcopal Church. It’s a shame.
The Episcopal Church was all I’d ever known except for some Southern Baptist and Charamatic Churches I would attend (as a child) while visiting my Dad’s relatives in Deep East Texas.
But there’s not a whole lot of difference between Conservative Low Chuch Episcopalians and Missouri Synod Lutherans. (Except for that pesky “Real Presence” thing.)


28 posted on 09/04/2009 8:07:59 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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