B. U. G. S.

Back in the 60s Episcopal Bishop Pike was a hard-core leftist, even lefter than the Marxist consensus among bishops of established Protestant churches. But he got into trouble when he OPENLY said the Trinity and other doctrines were nonsense. He was there to preach Social Progress, not some Afterlife rot.

Now here is the problem. If the government does not sponsor porn like “Piss Christ,” it is declared to be censorship. “Piss Moses” or “Piss Mohammed,” of course, would be off limits.

Any artist has the right to produce anything he wishes, all we ask is that WE not pay for it or take responsibility for it. The same rule came up with Bishop Pike and the Episcopal Church. Any American has the right to any religious belief he wishes so long as it does not go against interracial dating and marriage, but he has no right to get PAID for doing it.

Bishop Pike denied the doctrine, but he still insisted on getting paid and wearing his Episcopal regalia and preaching Social Progress at his congregation’s expense. So the Episcopal Church had its last heresy trial to determine whether someone who denounced the doctrines he was paid to preach could still get paid.

Needless to say, the media portrayed Bishop Pike as a hero of Free Speech, and the Episcopal Church backed down.

Now one black female bishop has declared that she is a Moslem. Another, I haven’t seen her picture, had become a Buddhist.

Well, hell, unlike Pike, at least they’re RELIGIOUS!

So the Anglican Communion is in a state of collapse. Whole dioceses are seceding. Notice that that is reported in the media, but very, very seldom. It is an example of the complete collapse of a fundamental historical institution by following the dictates of our KGB defector:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaoX_SgNO70

The Anglican Church in Britain is negotiating to join with Rome again. I doubt that Rome, even today, will accept crap like that. That is why I got baptized by the Melkites, who are related to Rome, though the Pope’s picture is not in their churches and they teach strict Orthodox except for the filioque. The Roman Church, for all its acceptance of fashionable crap, is still a CHURCH.

I am now a relapsed Catholic. But it beats the hell out of having any relationship whatsoever with mainline Protestants or Old Testament evangelicals. But the OT evangelicals are still, for now, a CHURCH.

A couple of years back, the Archbishop of Canterbury announced that, if you have trouble with this Resurrection stuff, he recommended you become a Jew. Everything is in the Old Testament anyway.

The old Calvinist Puritan Church at Plymouth is now Unitarian. Once you get fixated on the OT, this Jesus stuff goes.

But the Anglican Church bureaucracy, bishops, priests and all, is HUGE. They have to drop the faith, but they need their the checks. Rome would be a HARD row to hoe. The only problem is that there are no Unitarian bishops.