Anglican Church of Canada bishop looks to Shamanism and Confucianism for inspiration

From here (page 6):

The church needs to recognize that God is already at work through, for example, first nations spirituality, shamanism in various traditions and Confucianism, Bishop Mark MacDonald, national indigenous bishop, said.

“When a Christian person goes to a new place they find God already there.”

There is a sense in which Bishop Mark MacDonald is correct: God is omnipresent, so he must indeed be “already there”. That is not what MacDonald is getting at, though. What he means is Christians should look for enlightenment in the manner that God expresses himself through Shamanism and Confucianism; this is utter tripe.

A Shaman purports to contact the spirit world in an attempt to gain occult insights, a practice – whether it works or not – that is expressly forbidden in the Bible.

Confucianism teaches that people can perfect themselves through their own efforts – a contention whose falsehood is blindingly obvious to anyone who has made an honest effort to do so.

It is hard to believe that any Christian who is not non compos mentis could fall for either – yet Mark MacDonald, a bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada, clearly has.

Why is he still a bishop? Because the Anglican Church of Canada, while still trying to maintain the fiction that it is a Christian denomination, actually ceased to be one a few decades ago.