Where would we be without the sheer beauty of wymxn bishop figures? Just imagine, if you can, an Anglican world without them, in which no one, I repeat no one, would take us seriously. Uh huh, that was one of the, ahem, debating points in favor of the wymxn legislation in the Church of England's Synod and beyond. Think about it, if you don't have women bishops everyone will think you're some kind of joke. God, let the reader understand, most definitely has a sense of humor.
Others are far more serious. An ordained priesthood and episcopate which doesn't include women is exclusionary, bigoted and misogynist; in other words it's evil. So much, dear readers, for the ordained ministry from the age of the Apostles until 1976 in the US. Deficiently evil up until then, pure and whole ever after. Excuse me, the Apostles, who knew Christ, got it wrong? Apparently so, and grievously so. You see where that's going, punters, Christ Himself got it wrong, which hardly makes Him divine. Do the math, I dare you.
Again, some proponents of wymxn clergypersynnes wax biblical in their defense. Ordaining them, they claim, is a "scriptural imperative." Then they quote St. Paul, telling you with solemn evangelical conviction that there's no "male or female" in Christ. They might even throw in that bit about a net in which clean and unclean animals are gathered up, implying that even Gentiles are allowed into the Kingdom of Heaven. If them, so too wymxn priests and pontiffs. "Prayer," they tell you in all sanctimonious, ill-fitting suit condescension has "guided this scriptural discovery of unfolding truth."
Far out. So St. Paul, who famously forbade wymxn from teaching in church, a presbyteral role, didn't understand his own epistles? Really? And ordaining wymxn is scripturally led? Surely you mean Marxist/Boshevik/19thC radical led. Where, you ask our evangelical friend, did the ordination of women come from, the Bible or Sangerite Feminism. He'll splutter and change the subject.
And on and on. Long story short, what we're dealing with here is people pretending to be something they don't even believe in anyway. Call them dupes, best instance, of cultural Marxism, and wonder askance as the denominations and institutions which that movement's parasitically subverted collapse into hollowed out shells of their former selves.
Well that's miserable, you say, and it is, but take heart. When the wrecking's over the true will stand, as we do today. God will not be mocked.
Reconquista,
LSP
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Mustering all my non-judgmental “so unto others” grace…but it ain’t working…what the bejeebers is going on there? Oy vey.
*do unto… (face palm)
Yeah... something something Revelations something Fall of Society under Satan's Spawn something something.
Saying that we misinterpret one or two lines from the bible and interpreting those lines to be something else completely, like priestesses being allowed instead of disallowed, well, what next? Jesus is just a concept? God is just a concept? There is no real evil nor real good? Sin isn't?
Wait.
That's what several episcopalian, anglican and catholic leaders have said.
End of Christianity is their goal. And they're gaining steam.
I'm not Catholic but Protestants have the same problem - there's something about female preachers I simply don't care for but I can't put my finger on just why that's so. A husband & wife pair is even worse. I guess they win; I don't go to a structured "church" anymore.
According to St. John's report in the back of the book, they lose in the end. Oooopsie!
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
They'd seem to share a talent - they can eat corn off the cob without opening their mouths. I expect that they all eat carpet too.
Check out the Sunday Sermonette on VM for breaking news from the Church in England. It's big, I tell you.
Another excellent LSP post.
I didn't leave Holy Mother Church. She beat me, stole from me, kicked me to the curb and then said I was the problem. The problem being retaining traditional values.
I pray that a conservative reformer takes St. Peter's spot and brings the fire down upon the lavender mafia jokingly called the college of cardinals. And maybe bring back the militant orders too.
My dear Paul, nothing good. Some might call it apostasy, but it's too milquetoast blasphemous even for that.
Exactly, Beans. They're those iniquitous tenants of the vineyard upon which Christ passed sentence, and they're not even aware of it, mostly.
Anon, husband and wife teams are something else again. We get them in the Anglican world too. My diocese isn't in sacramental communion with them, and neither am I.
Wild, sin, rebellion against God, is a kind of lunacy. To what extent do any of these people, viz. St. John the Divine, know the end and keep doing it anyway? A good if terrifying question.
Beans, I've been in this fight ever since I was old enough to think about it, which was pretty young. We must never give up. Maybe you could find a suitably ChetsterBolloc setup? The Ordinariate's pretty good, albeit niche -- look it up. That said, I pray the same thing too.
Anon, on point! Well done.
RHSM, you're a keen judge of character, I know this.
Will do, LL, just catching up on the blog thing. It's been a bit hectic here with one thing and another.
My dear Anon, you're kind. But you know how it is, sometimes you just want to strike out against the risible apostate inanity of wymxn priestesses.
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