Trouble in the Anglican Communion
I haven’t written much about the problems within the Episcopal Church USA in recent months mainly because it’s one of those discussions that generates a lot heat but very little light.
With the ordination of a gay bishop last year, the ECUSA has diverted from centuries of church tradition, the consensus of Biblical interpretation, and the will of a large number of its members. Further, the ECUSA is using its power and wealth as a club to beat other Anglican provinces into submission. They are essentially telling African, Latin American, and Asian provinces to fall into line when it comes to accepting the ordination of gay clergy or suffer the consequences.
In addition, conservative American Episcopalians are reaching a boiling point. They are on the verge of walking out of the communion, which is a HUGE deal if you know anything about Anglicans. However, it seems like one response has been to form a network of conservative clergy within the ECUSA that would circumvent the more liberal establishement.
Quite frankly, I think ECUSA is on the verge of becoming irrelevant. When you begin trying to bully other provinces with your money, you’ve lost sight of what it means to be the church. Americans will find ways to remain part of the Anglican communion, even if that means leaving the ECUSA.
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COME ON, IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN PARTICULAR IT STARTED WITH THE BEGINNING OF “SO-CALLED ANGLICANISM”. IT (ANGLICANISM) IS BY IT’S HISTORY A SCHISMATIC SECT THAT DECENDED LIKE MOST SCHISMS INTO AN HERETICAL CULT. IT’S FOUNDER AND POPE WAS HENRY TUDOR AKA HENRY 8TH A NARCISSISTIC BUTCHER AND DICTATOR. SINCE HE COULDN’T LEGITIMIZE HIS ABUSE OF HIS FIRST WIFE AND GET A DIVORCE HE SIMPLE DESTROYED THE MOTHER CHURCH (IN THIS CASE)CELTIC-CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND, A FAITH OF THE MASSES GOING BACK TO THE 3TH CENTURY IN BRITAIN. HE DID THIS BY 1ST DESTROYING CATHOLIC MONASTICISM (THE ONLY REFUGE FOR THE OPPRESSED POOR OF BRITAIN) HE THEN WHEN ON TO SLAUGHTER LITERALLY MILLIONS OF CATHOLIC PRIESTS, NUNS BISHOPS AND LAITY TO ESTABLISH HIS CULT CALLED ANGLICANISM. THE SAME WAS OCCURRING IN SCOTLAND AT THE SAME TIME UNDER THE SOCIO-PATH EX-PRIEST JOHN KNOX A CALVINIST. ANGLICANISM IN ENGLAND AND PRESBYTERIANISM IN SCOTLAND WERE STILL BORN DEGENERATE CULTS TO BEGIN WITH AND THEIR SURVIVAL INTO THE 21ST CENTURY IS PROBABLY THE ONLY MIRACLE THESE TWO CULTS CAN CLAIM.