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When I first became an Episcopalian years ago, a friend facetiously told me that I had joined the best church that money could buy.”  In fact, another wag observed that the Episcopal Church is the Cadillac of American Christianity’’ and the ‘‘Chevis Regal of Protestantism.’’
 
These attempts at humor, based on social and intellectual snobbery, have grown a bit stale in the ensuing years, as the stately and venerable American version of the Church of England has experienced wide-spread decline in numbers, theological conviction, and social and political influence.  The church that once was called “the Republican Party at prayer” has now become little more than a coalition of special interests and would probably be more accurately termed the “Democratic Convention in 1988 at prayer.”
 
[b]With bishops who declare the Bible to be little more than the prejudices of a group of  misogynist,  homophobic males, the A[/b]postle Paul to have been nothing but a frustrated homosexual, and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ to be nothing but the rattling of old bones, it is little wonder that the Episcopal Church in the United States has lost over a million members since 1970. As if these “profound theological insights” were not enough, the American branch of Anglicanism now has liturgies for the marriage of two persons of the same gender and refuses to expect clergy to live morally pure lives.

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By "bishops" you mean Spong, who was so far outside Episcopal theology that he had to step down from his post.

I'm sorry you find the Eoiscopal Church's inclusion of women and gays to be "Democratic Convention of 1988." To me it represents Jesus' real message, Jesus' own inclusion of women and the pariahs of his time.[/quote]

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