The Anglican Church of Canada self-destructs over 0.1%

Posted on February 17, 2012 by David

According to Statistics Canada there are 45,345 same-sex couples in Canada and about 7,500 of them are married – 0.1% of all married couples. 37,900 are same-sex common-law couples.

Heretical ideas have been allowed to roam unchecked in the Anglican Church of Canada for decades, but it was the blessing of same-sex couples that was the last straw that finally drove many orthodox parishes to separate from their dioceses.

The Anglican Church of Canada likes to claim that this is a “justice” issue; but is it really – the church has torn itself apart for the sake of 0.1% of married couples?

I am convinced that the percentage of same-sex partnered priests in the ACoC is higher – far higher – than the national average. The real reason for the church’s obsession with blessing same-sex couples is self-interest on the part of homosexual Anglican priests: they refuse to mend their ways and they seek justification for not doing so.

Here is a graphic from the CBC:

Being for the Anglican Covenant is anti-American, apparently

Posted on February 16, 2012 by David

From here:

For his part, the Rev. Malcolm French, the coalition’s [No Anglican Covenant Coalition] Regina-based Canadian convenor, points to an inherent anti-American bias at the heart of the covenant. “Certainly the venom level went up once the Episcopal church had a female presiding bishop and, oddly, this is why the covenant has appealed to some people in the U.K. who would otherwise be seen as perhaps politically on the left. It connects to a larger anti-Americanism that has nothing to do with church politics.”

This is rather an odd statement coming as it does from the political leftist and theological liberal, Rev. Malcolm French. Up until now, being anti-American was the sine qua non of the French id, it was what brightened his day, put a spring in his step and lent fuel to his rejoicing at living in the country of the sainted Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton rather than the land of the devil worshipping George Bush.

What Rev. French really means, of course, is that the Anglican Covenant is against the heretical theological meanderings which are afflicting American Anglicanism. The Covenant, even if adopted, is insufficiently potent to do much about that, but even a whiff of rebuke is enough to start Anglican liberals foaming at the mouth in indignation.

This almost makes me want to support the Covenant.

Homosexual priests in long-term committed relationships

Posted on February 15, 2012 by David

Here are two who were “close friends” in the Roman Catholic Church. Their relationship was long term, but the commitment was sufficiently loose to allow them to haunt “places frequented by gays” where one of them acquired AIDS and syphilis.

The pair decided to jump off a cliff together but, lacking the nerve, decided, after planning a list of hymns for their funerals, to hire hit men to finish them off instead.

This amalgam of comic pantomime and maudlin tragedy is brought to you courtesy of a church – the Roman Catholic Church this time – which turns a blind – or winking – eye to what used to be called sin.

Two gay Roman Catholic priests hired hitmen to kill themselves after one of them discovered he had Aids.

Rafael Reatiga, 35, and Richard Piffano, 37, who had been close friends since training, were discovered shot dead in a car in Southern Bogota, Colombia, in January last year.

Authorities initially suspected robbery but this week prosecutor Ana Patricia Larrota said investigators had determined that it was a case of suicide by hitmen.

The Anglican obsession with global warming continues

Posted on February 14, 2012 by David

Since it no longer believes in Hell in the next life, the Episcopal Church can’t very well preach fire and brimstone sermons, so on Sunday, it did the next best thing: it had “a national preach-in” (whatever that is) on global warming in this life.

I can’t help noticing that the participants in the photo have warm coats on.

From here:

On Sunday, Berkeley’s St. Mark’s Episcopal Church took part in a national preach-in on global warming which linked hundreds of congregations across the country together as they reflected on their responsibility towards the planet and social action.

The Reverend Arthur Boone linked the responsibility for Christians to act on the issue of global warming to Christ’s admonition to love one another. Citing Paul’s letter to the Corinthians “Love does not insist on its own way…,” the Reverend argued that the United States, with 3% of the world’s population, cannot in good conscience continue to consumer 25% of the world’s energy resources. “If we are to love our fellow humans, we cannot insist on our own way of consuming ever more energy,” he said.

Rowan Williams to debate Richard Dawkins at the Sheldonian

Posted on February 14, 2012 by David

Perhaps William Lane Craig should show up disguised as Rowan Williams.

Richard Dawkins forgets the full title of 'The Origin Of Species'

Posted on February 14, 2012 by David

Richard Dawkins is becoming an increasing embarrassment to his less strident atheist comrades. For my part, I am glad to see him doing his bit in inadvertently exposing the threadbare reasons for disbelieving in God’s existence.

It is purely speculation, of course, but I suspect that Richard Dawkins is now driving more people towards Christianity than Rowan Williams is away from it, so congratulations are in order.

From here:

Richard Dawkins has been labelled an “embarrassment to atheism” after clashing with a priest in a debate on BBC Radio 4.

The author of the God Delusion could not recall the full title of Charles Darwin’s ‘The Origin Of Species’ during a discussion with Giles Fraser, Former Canon Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, over a poll conducted for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK) which found that self-identified Christians didn’t go to Church, or read the bible.

Dawkins said an “astonishing number couldn’t identify the first book in the New Testament.” But his claim that this indicated self-identified Christians were “not really Christian at all” was challenged by Fraser, who said the poll asked “silly little questions” to “trip” people up.

Giles Fraser: Richard, if I said to you what is the full title of ‘The Origin Of Species’, I’m sure you could tell me that.

Richard Dawkins: Yes I could

Giles Fraser: Go on then.

Richard Dawkins: On The Origin Of Species.. Uh. With, Oh God. On The Origin Of Species. There is a sub title with respect to the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Giles Fraser: You’re the high pope of Darwinism… If you asked people who believed in evolution that question and you came back and said 2% got it right, it would be terribly easy for me to go ‘they don’t believe it after all.’ It’s just not fair to ask people these questions. They self-identify as Christians and I think you should respect that.

Boys in skirts

Posted on February 13, 2012 by David

From here:

Boys should be able to wear skirts to school because uniforms ‘should not discriminate’, a children’s adviser has claimed.

Tam Baillie, the Scottish parliament’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, has backed 13-year-old Luca Scarabello, who is fighting for a ban on ‘gender-specific uniforms’.

Mr Baillie said that Luca, a pupil at St Mungo’s High School in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, who lodged a petition with the Scottish Government in November, had ‘raised important rights issues’.

The public petitions committee (PPC) is considering Luca’s proposals.

In his response to the PPC, Mr Baillie claimed that forcing uniforms on children could cause ‘serious distress’ for those with gender variants.

The “serious distress” caused by not allowing boys to wear skirts won’t look so nearly so serious when compared to the distress that will come later from encouraging a mixed-up child to pretend he is a girl.

How many children are we prepared to sacrifice on the altar of gender equality political correctness?

Rev. Katherine Ragsdale still thinks abortion is a blessing

Posted on February 11, 2012 by David

Rev. Ragsdale is Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School, a seminary of the Episcopal Church. She is a lesbian and in 2011 married another woman. In 2009 she declared that abortion is a blessing.

She was recently interviewed by Laura Ingraham and apparently, she still thinks abortion is a blessing. Having an abortion – even a late term abortion – is “health care” and is to be regretted only in the same sense as a heart operation is to be regretted.

Is this woman mad, evil, deluded, possessed or a combination of all four? I have no idea – you decide. One thing is certain: she should not be an Anglican priest, let alone Dean of a seminary.

Diocese of Niagara performs the Vagina Monologues in cathedral

Posted on February 10, 2012 by David

Apparently the Diocese of Niagara will try just about anything except Christianity to entice people into its buildings: the place was full for the first time this century.

If you missed it, never fear, there will be a repeat of the fescennine folly at St. George’s Anglican Church, St. Catharines on Valentine’s day.

It’s all part of Living the Vision: coming soon to a church near you.

From here:

I was at the Christ’s Church Cathedral on Tuesday for a special performance of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler’s still controversial (not to mention funny) play about some defining things that make a woman a woman, and a girl a girl.

Throughout the evening words were spoken that presumably had never been heard before in this hallowed space. Four-letter words some of them, with hard consonants, resounding profanely in the Gothic-Revival splendour of vaulted ceilings, stained glass and fluted columns. The hundreds who filled the church on this night would frequently drown out the sound of those words, not with indignant protest but laughter.

I was shocked. You might imagine. A “mainstream” church, with its pews full!?

The cathedral on James North, the centrepiece of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara, was built 1852-1876. Back then they didn’t envision plays in the church, certainly not with such language and content, and certainly not with the lines being delivered by ordained Anglican priests.

Back then, they really would’ve been shocked. You might imagine. But mostly because those ordained priests were … worst outrage of all … women.

Eight of them — female Anglican priests, from Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Guelph, Cayuga, Hamilton. They dressed in black vestments and red scarves, and at least one in stiletto heels.

Some even now will find it offensive that something called The Vagina Monologues was staged in a church, a sacred place, that priests said the “f” word and worse.