Posted on 07/12/2022 8:37:30 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring,
That the 80th General Convention denounces the work of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, also known as Pregnancy Resource Centers; and be it further
Resolved, that the 80th General Convention apologizes for the Church's previous support of Crisis Pregnancy Centers as detailed in Resolution 1994-D105.
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It should be pointed put this book was not included in the Bible. It is literature. But, I do believe in hell and that 9ne suffers horribly.
It started in earnest during the 1980s when yuppies flooded into the church because Episcopalians supposedly had a reputation for being “old money” folks and they wanted that cachet (and business contacts), same reason they named their babies things like “Stone” and “Grey” and “Brooke” (thought those names sounded “old money”).
Well, we did have “old money” habits and rules, if not all had the old money itself. First Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Be Tacky. You never wore new clothing to church, especially not on Easter. You especially did not wear new shoes (those telltale brandy-new soles would show when you knelt at the altar rail and scandalize the entire congregation). Even kids were sent walking around in new Sunday School shoes before being allowed to wear them to church. Etc., etc, etc.
Back then, we joked that the only difference between us and the Catholics across the street was “they have the Pope and we have The Pill.” Women and girls had to wear hats or small lace head coverings (and if you forgot, you had to wear one of those “chapel caps” available in the vestibule that looked like doll-sized nurse caps).
The yuppies never quite caught on. They did exert lots of energy further liberalizing the church (which had already begun in the 1970s with Spong & Co.). And in the end they won. I felt so sad for the elderly parishioners who felt their church had been yanked out from under them. They had been faithful all their lives, donated, etc., and ended up out in the cold.
Now their First Commandment appears to be “Thou Shalt Be Woke and Politically Correct at All Times and in All Places.”
Like you, I was brought up in the Episcopal church, long ago - before the beginning of the downslide.
I got suspicious back in Bishop Pike’s day. After a while, I also realized that something very wrong was happening, and quit.
Since then, this “virus” has slowly spread to so many other Mainline churches.
We badly need a major “Reformation” back to the truth of Bible.
The episcopal church abandoned using the bible as its guide and replaced it with the Democratic talking points. I pray the leaders, the bishops, the priests, the wardens repent and return to biblical principles.
We had one in my hometown - it was what we called the “snobs” church.
I just checked on their website. This was a resolution that failed in the House of Bishops by a vote of 70-40. Someone on FB must be playing games.
My grandfather used to refer to this denomination as the “Pish Teppel” Church. If you understand Yiddish or German, you’ll know the English translation and how far ahead of his time my grandfather apparently was.
(Okay, emigrating from Russia at age 17 in the early 20th Century, he had some trouble with English, but still!)
Jesus knew a woman when he saw one. But I guess he wasn’t woke enough for modern Christians.
I am so deeply sad, CatHerd. I am one of those elderly parishioners left out in the cold.
Your description is perfect, right down to the chapel caps, and knowing whether the Host was at the altar or not by the color of the candle.
If it makes you feel better, Deformed, er, Reformed “synagogues” are just as bad, maybe worse.
The “pro-choice” crowd certainly seem to believe the only correct choice is death.
I swear it has to be the “Bee”.
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; Revelation 18:4
I think this will apply to many churches.
You can say the same thing about pretty much all the major denominations.
This is the downside of a world religion that was adapted by monarchs. As long as the major institutions are promoting this religion, the people will follow it.
But once these institutions start denigrating or perverting this religion, the people will go along with the denigration and perversion. And the infrastructure will remain in place, as long as there are people who can comfortably grift off of it.
I can’t think of a single institution that the left hasn’t taken over. Even what used to be right wingers strongholds like sports, the military and churches.
Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions” has been an unmitigated success.
We have been laid to waste in this culture war... and they ain’t done.
You are correct. If a church I'm attending stops teaching or preaching the Bible, I find a new church. I've had to do it several times.
“Wow. It’s one thing to support abortion, but something else to denounce people for trying to provide an alternative to it! But then, what do you expect from a church founded by the King of England?”
Yepper! I would prefer to be in a Church founded by the Big Guy himself.
I reckon every town had at least one “snob church”. The church very close to our house when I was growing up was a real snob church so we drove clear across town to another Episcopal church that wasn’t snobby at all. It was the last to be infiltrated by the libs, but eventually went down, too. I felt so bad for my elderly Dad when he finally resigned from that church with a heavy heart and swam the Tiber, too.
Now that church’s congregation mainly consists a die-hard sockless* men in their 60s who never got over their frat boy days and their plastic ex-wives teetering about in their red-soled Christian Louboutins. “Potluck” dinners are no longer potluck (with the obligatory Episcopalian broccoli-and-rice casserole), but always catered by some overpriced trendy little restaurant. The “Our Solemn Coffee Hour” after church is no longer coffee and donuts/muffins — oh no, it’s oat lattes and whole grain scones with sunflower butter. Go figure.
*It was a thing among frat boys back in the 70s and 80s to wear Bass Weejuns with no socks. These old guys still do — even at their daughters’ weddings! Yuck!
Forty of them voted in FAVOR???
That's as appalling as the 30% (or whatever) of US voters who still approve of Gropin' Joe. It should be ZERO.
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