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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every thread about the Episcopal church turns ugly. Why? I understand that people disagree but why the bashing? Especially of Bishop Schori?[/quote]

[b]Because 1-2 of the frequent posters here were part of the schism a few years ago when some left the Episcopal Church over women’s ordination and gay marriage—they now refer to themselves as Anglicans. As evidenced by recent vitriolic posts on other threads, they’re still hopping mad that the Episcopal Church wouldn’t let them keep the church buildings after they left.[/quote][/b]

I don't think so.  It would be impossible to have a discussion about current affairs in the Catholic Church without a discussion about the Pope's tweets and messages.  Similarly, Schori was head of the Episcopal Church here in the USA and left it bankrupt and in shambles because she initiated all the lawsuits.  One can't really have a discussion about problems within an institution without talking about its heads and their positions[/quote]

The Episcopal Church itself and Schori are totally separable, and you’re not making sense. You can have a low opinion of Schori’s financial management skills and still think the Episcopal Church itself has much to offer.

So to return to pp’s question, why do you show up on every thread to trash the church itself? You’ve made it abundantly clear, on this thread and every related thread, that you don’t like gays and women ministers. So why can’t you let it drop now? Don’t put a rainbow bumper sticker on your car and don’t attend the Episcopal Church. Easy, done. Move on, spend your time worshipping and volunteering with the Anglican Church if that’s your think. However, your obsession with Schori makes me think this really is lasting bitterness over the buildings. [b]I’m not that familiar with her or when she was in charge[/b], but arguably all those lawsuits were just defending the church against the theft of its property and buildings, and the courts apparently agreed. So enough, move along, for your own sake if not ours.[/quote]

If you don't know who Schori is, or when she was in charge, or what the problematic issues were that caused her to be fired, then why are you here arguing at all?  You don't have a leg to stand on.[/quote]

pp has a point.  It's easy enough to find out about schori https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Jefferts_Schori and to defend her based on factual information.[/quote]

Schori-ignorant pp here. I’m not Episcopalian or Anglican but I want to learn more from unbiased and reasonable sources. Seriously, you think non-Episcopalians can’t participate or have opinions?  By telling me to leave, you’re just proving the point made by others, that your apparent goal here is to derail every thread about the ECUSA without revealing your actual motives: simply, it appears that that you left the ECUSA on doctrinal grounds, you’re po’d  they wouldn’t let you keep the church buildings, and ten years later you’re still filled with bitterness.

Why don’t you answer some of the questions about taking Paul literally that have been asked of you at 7:52? Elsewhere, you were asked whether you take all of Leviticus literally instead of just the OT stuff on sodomy—why not answer that? Pp showed you were wrong about Anglican women priests. If you can’t participate constructively and honestly, better that you pack up your lingering hatred and leave, for everybody else’s sake not to mention your own.[/quote]

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