tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205805.post115302686454711155..comments2023-10-09T10:54:03.005-05:00Comments on Whitehall: Ten calls from GC06 for direct political advocacyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205805.post-1153487485750288512006-07-21T08:11:00.000-05:002006-07-21T08:11:00.000-05:00Dear Father:You stated: "What concerns me, though,...Dear Father:<BR/><BR/>You stated: "What concerns me, though, and drives me to post these, is that I've heard Episcopalians often speak in the harshest terms of the alliance between church and state on the political/theological right (e.g. the Christian Coalition) and whine about how the US under Bush is one step from a becoming an evango-fundie theocracy; but they often fail to see how political their own Christianity is, and at its most fundamental levels. Again, to be clear, I don't necessrily oppose the marriage between church and state -- much good Gospel work has been done through that kind of alliance, in the grand scheme of Christian history. The church certainly has a responsibility to speak up about political issues that concern it from time to time (e.g. MLK, jr. on civil rights, Roman Catholicism on abortion). But let's have no imbalance in the criticism. All sides are political, and all sides have a right, perhaps a responsibility, to be so."<BR/><BR/>Umm, ok. Pot calling kettle, come in kettle! <BR/><BR/>How can you in one breath castigate protestant sectarians, and outright heretics (dispensational fundamentalism is merely Bogomilism or Chiliasm warmed over- lol) and at the same time equate GOOD politicking with adulterous fornicating plaigarizers like MLK, Jr.?<BR/><BR/>Are you not substituting a form of racial patriarchalism, if you don't hold non-Europeans to the same levels of decency and standards as we are told to be held to, via the Decalogue, and the British Common law tradition? Please see my comments to Christian Challenge that I could not even get through to, to put what I am saying in proper perspective! <BR/><BR/>http://newnidaros.blogspot.com/2006/06/colonial-continuers.html<BR/><BR/>Good day, and God Bless.Fr. Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12276375407068388235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10205805.post-1153160932753424872006-07-17T13:28:00.000-05:002006-07-17T13:28:00.000-05:00Missed one: D020Resolved, That the 75th General Co...Missed one: D020<BR/><BR/>Resolved, That the 75th General Convention call upon all Episcopalians as an act of penitence, to oppose and resist through advocacy, protest and electoral action the continuation of the war in Iraq, and encourage the President and Congress to take proactive steps to end our participation as soon as possible.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00347789123483096164noreply@blogger.com