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To: AnAmericanMother
it is ridiculous to compare a relatively powerless, mostly irrelevant and aging church of only 2 million (if that - that's THEIR number, which I know includes us even though we left 6 years ago) with a totalitarian national government that managed to murder 8-10 million people.

Yes. A bishop who leads his flock toward death and destruction has far more to answer for than someone who made sure the trains were running on time - even if they were running to Buchenwald.

16 posted on 01/24/2009 4:43:25 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Bishops -- skulls -- pavement -- Hell.

Point taken, however. I can't understand why anybody would WANT to be a bishop ('nolo episcopare') because of the overwhelming responsibility for the souls of other people. (The good news for Bishop Lee is that his ordination is invalid so he's really not a bishop at all).

But as for leading souls to perdition, anybody who is actually listening to a ECUSA bishop after all of the brouhaha of the past 10 years, let alone the past 50, is either a nonbeliever or simply a social member, in which case the bishop's apostasy is just another bucket of water to a drowning man -- or he is invincibly ignorant, in which case the bishop doesn't matter at all.

Most faithful Christians who are still in ECUSA are hunkering down in their individual parishes and ignoring whatever the bishops and the national church are up to.

17 posted on 01/24/2009 5:40:25 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
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