A.S. Haley: The Episcopal Church-Adrift at Sea, with neither Rudder nor Compass

February 16, 2013

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...Today we have reached the point of both temporal and spiritual tyranny: the Church exercises and claims total control over every parish’s real and personal property, and the assembled Bishops ensure that no one who will not stomach their revisions to doctrine and worship shall remain for long among their number.

And now that same spiritual and temporal tyranny has decided to revise itself, out of whole cloth, with no guiding principles whatsoever. The clergy are dominating the process; the laity who participate will be invited to share in the power once they agree to concentrate it. The end result can only be a Church oligarchy—rule of the many by the few.

To which the guidance of “the Holy Spirit” will be but a fillip, a form of window dressing to justify the end reached by tyrannical means. After all, unlike Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit left behind no spoken and timeless words for the guidance of His Church. (Some in ECUSA’s current leadership think of the Holy Spirit as a “she”, anyway, and hence much more conducive to their need for authentication.)...
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