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I am a latent Episcopalian – America’s church in the Anglican Communion. I refuse to go to church. I refuse to give money to the Church. Until Anglicans can get their act together on what is right and wrong, and recognize what is good and evil I refuse to be a part of their mess. I know many that have been driven from the church by queers, political correctness, and fuzziness on right and wrong. I have no doubt about the reason why a minority (Muslims) can out-pace the majority in the UK. Same is true in the US. At one time the Episcopal Church was the dominant church in America. Stray from the truth, and the flock will stray.

Ditto. I'm keeping an eye on the conservative dissidents (the ones with traditional Anglican beliefs). Know anything about the Reformed Episcopal Church?

>> Ditto. I'm keeping an eye on the conservative dissidents (the ones with traditional Anglican beliefs). Know anything about the Reformed Episcopal Church?

There have been some meetings recently. There is a bishop from Pittsburgh that is active in this, and another from Texas. The talk I have heard is something along the lines of a church within a church. I will have to see how the money flows on that one. If my local bishop (Harrisburg, PA) gets the money, I will still be out of a church. I sometimes feel that I should be in church, fighting the battle from the inside, but I can't have my kids exposed to this crap. Just before 9/11, our church added two part-time priests. The one in charge of the youth program is divorced, and he brings his ex-wife to church with him. He holds this out as, "Hey, look at me, I'm such a good guy, I got a divorce, and I'm still good friends with my wife." Forget that crap. My wife was on the selection committee (by the way, prior to this, my entire family was very active) for the two priests, and it seemed to the majority on the committee saw no problem that a priest was divorced, or that his favorite past-time was fantasy football (it was all he could talk about.) Sorry, I don’t worry about football until after church.

After 9/11, the Presiding Bishop did me in when he could not differentiate between good and evil when it came to the war on terror. My family came to America for religious freedom, and they fought for their freedoms some 227 years ago. Personally, I have no problem saying that Muslims want one and only one religion in the world. They have spread it by the sword in the past, and now they are spreading by terror. What I needed from the Church after 9/11 was not there – simply put, how to be the best Christian as possible during a time of war. The two are not incongruous.