A Stitch in Haste

Another data point defending my longstanding thesis that the two main authoritarian branches of Christianity — Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism — set their policies based solely on a drive to pander to their third-world congregations even if it comes at the expense of membership in the developed West:

An international panel of Anglican bishops called upon a gathering of their conservative American counterparts Friday to split from the rest of the U.S. Episcopal Church.
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The seven bishops from Africa, the West Indies, and Asia spoke at the Hope and a Future Conference organized by the Anglican Communion Network.

The network is headed by Pittsburgh’s Episcopal Bishop Robert W. Duncan. He helped form the group in 2003 after the Episcopal Church in the United States consecrated an openly gay priest, Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire and gave tacit approval to blessing services for same-sex couples.

So the bishops of the third-world would rather see the U.S. Episcopal Church break into two, and lose perhaps millions of members, just because of one gay bishop. And all “in God’s name.”

Perhaps a schism would be for the best. And for the next hundred years or so, when someone says that they’re “Episcopalian,” people will have to follow-up with “Which kind of Episcopalian: the bigot kind or the Christian kind?”

Slowly but surely, Christians are increasingly going to start taking back Christ from the hateful authoritarians.