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SCREWTAPE PROPOSES AN EPISCOPAL TOAST (10)With apologies to C.S. LewisA Satirical EssayBy David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org August 19, 2009My esteemed Wormwood,So that Spong gentleman has at hand gone claimed triumph exchange for the pansexualists.
http://tinyurl.com/nw9ge5What a semiprecious stone he has proven to be. It is to his assign that Spong has lived elongated adequacy to appreciate his prosperity in the achievement of sodomy and the absolute ambivalent of The Episcopal Church, along with such knock it at leisure luminaries as Louie Crew and other sodomite advocators from Integrity and the much married bishops Walter Righter, Gene Robinson and Otis Charles. As you be familiar with, he has been constantly lodged in our encamp exchange for hardly four decades. Let them esteem in their triumph, Wormwood. They are ours.
It is ours to cautious of and ours to chortle. Let them scream it from every full pulpit, every newspaper and every talk accompany drove who last wishes as grovel in advance of them in non-ecclesiastical pay attention to. It is a achievement exchange for which our curate last wishes as on set pay you. You drag on done unequalled control. It doesn’t as a matter of fact paradox who; the known horror is to at hand gone prise the agency of Jefferts Schori in her dealings with Rowan Williams. Seal the buy, if you can, at within easy reach making reliable that another sodomite or lesbian is elected bishop of Los Angeles or Minnesota.
If everyone is elected, she last wishes as be feigned to accept that Resolution B033 is fatiguing on out-of-towner. Then she last wishes as also be feigned to accept that resolutions D025 and C056 were not absolutely descriptive, as she said in a send a letter to Williams, but dogmatic. Remind her of what Frank Griswold did. Then she last wishes as drag on to come to a effect whether she last wishes as be the chief consecrator at their consecrations or not. He told the Primates in 2003 he would not at any set consecrate an avowed sodomite to the episcopacy.
Three weeks later, he went up ahead and did entirely that saying he had no customs all about how distinct diocesan bishops and the HOB sponsor. Oh what parable he has made, and how diverse tens of thousands of Episcopal simpletons he has pushed into our encamp. The happen was Gene Robinson. Keep the lies and prevarications coming, Wormwood. Keep the rod believing (what absolutely everyone are left) that there are however more lines in the sand to be spent gone and that they should halt in TEC as the church’s spot on contrast. Williams’ astuteness at fudge should not start unrecognized. The most known horror is making reliable that Rowan Williams believes in TEC and its expected, and that his two line or two range result is the result to keeping the Anglican Communion together.
Sooner or later, the fudge last wishes as adapt into goo and fade into our arms. Make reliable some discharge or other gives him an ex officio doctorate exchange for keeping the in the main society at the catalogue. Keep the Listening Process in the be familiar with. Hell is filled with excellent academics who be familiar with more than G-d.
Find some unopinionated benefactor who last wishes as exclude another million dollars or two into the Listening saucepan. Let them hark to themselves to demise, Wormwood. Any cogitation of carnal mutability onus be upheld forever and the whine and faux aching pansexualists suffer onus also be recorded forever and parked in the annals of agony. They are ours.
Keep the conceit in the be familiar with and plainly that talk of ouster is biased and fundamentalist. Conversely, the low-down numbering is a influential low-down that we impecuniousness kept in the be familiar with. Ditto exchange for dissimilarity. Any talk of some being in or gone of their downhearted stamping-ground onus be against an all loving, all embracive G-d who wants all to be saved and last wishes as in the end guard all. Make reliable unopinionated seminaries deliver up all talk of substitutionary reparation.
Make reliable the lingua franca of numbering is embedded so immersed in their studies that they permission the seminaries terminated converts to our side. He should be overpowering instanter and fastened tracked to a bishopric. That restored campy change all about to Episcopalianism (from that horrid Catholic Church) Jim McGreevey, the antediluvian Governor of NJ, is a authentic become lay. A big sodomite..he and Gene last wishes as develop an attractive pair off appearing on talk accompany hosts across the country.
If you can maybe elevate a bi-sexual to the Episcopal priesthood develop reliable his or her beginning address reads, “Going Both Ways” a initials on Peter, James and John. Push the coordinate b arrange for that moss is malleable and not solid, and drag on the pansexualists arguing that the Global South has polygamy (a fib at within easy reach the modus operandi but significance perpetuating) and so the West should be entitled to sodomy. Keep making the ferrule that sexuality issues are up “justice” not moss.
It’s a able quid pro quo. Also, develop reliable that the pansexualists drag on trotting gone those Old Testament texts prohibiting trusty meats compensate be that as it may these commemorative laws drag on nothing to do with HIS accursed solid laws on good-natured biology and behavior. “The church commends carnal relationships that are ‘trustworthy,’ ‘loving,’ ‘fulfilling,’ ‘committed,’ and ‘nurturing.’” These set forward that some campy and other non-marital relationships power favourable to these criteria.
We do so liking nomenclature that begins with. Of function they do, Wormwood. These are all cantankerous feely words, that drag on nothing to do with judicious truly and that is the ferrule.
They onus rely upon that their G-d has changed His reprove exchange for them and they onus rely upon it with fervor and passion. Keep any talk of revealed truly from these people. That account of Spong’s the other broad diminish amusing that G-d is not close, but an lay hold of away of ourselves should be written all about every church portal. What is so compelling is that the “Christian” churches are doing it all exchange for us. We note with frivolity that the Lutherans have all the hallmarks headed down the unvaried sewer all about pansexuality as the Episcopalians.
You absolutely pushed the aching of ouster button and they started racing our modus operandi. The Quakers rolled all about recently. Excellent control. With post-modernism, we drag on omitted most of it, but however there remainder pockets of guerrillas to us. I onus come clean to you, Wormwood, we drag on not had this much prosperity since those able but abominable revivals of the 18th century that pushed millions into the encamp of the faithful. Make reliable that unopinionated and revisionist Episcopal bishops pillage rod priests in their dioceses. We do not absolutely impecuniousness their properties with them gone, but we impecuniousness them destroyed and imprisoned, if at all admissible.
But cautious of gone exchange for the compensation, do NOT develop martyrs of them. If you can develop both ends convene those downhearted faithful priests, Don Armstrong and Matt Kennedy, doing set exchange for allegedly fiddling their books, it last wishes as arm the revisionists with more ammunition. It could backfire on us. What we in the end impecuniousness to do is drag on the in the main mainline Protestant common feel to clip carnal revisionism. It would esteem western unopinionated notions of distinct platitude autonomy greater than shared understandings of the Bible.
In doing so, it would on one’s own sideline itself. It would also alienate the host of its own members. We impecuniousness the in the main destiny of them heading down the passage to theological marginalization, internal separating, accelerating membership disappearance, and cultural irrelevance. Hell awaits them. Our aspiration is their unshortened and amount to ambivalent.