Episcopalians for all intents and purposes are Anglicans. The schism was caused by the revolution and the early American government making taking oaths and praying for the crown a treasonous activity.
TooFineAPoint said:Buggery and upper class Brits go together like tea and crumpets, so really this is a very traditionalist statement from Father No-Theology.
stugatz said:I'm confused about Anglican vs. Episcopalian - as far as I know, the latter term is both an alternate term for Anglican, AND it also refers to a sub-church that came from the Anglicans.
That said, there are certainly conservative Anglican churches left. Episcopalians are the ones in the US ordaining tranny & dyke bishops and blessing abortion clinics.
I believe Anglicans were, at one point, just as badass as any other conservative denomination. Take this hymn, for example...
PapayaTapper said:TooFineAPoint said:Buggery and upper class Brits go together like tea and crumpets, so really this is a very traditionalist statement from Father No-Theology.
Leave it to the Brits to give ass-fucking an artsy name as if it's skilled endeavor one takes classes for at the Learning Annex like photography, pottery, archery, tapestry, etc.....
"Introduction to Buggery" Mondays and Thursdays at 6pm
Leonard D Neubache said:Surely the Bible contains some mechanism empowering the earthly followers of Christ to deal with blasphemers and subverters of God's house.
If so, what?
[The Church is] facing a crisis before [Christians] even think about reaching men who aren’t yet believers. The decline is pretty terminal. In 30 years time there could be zero men left in church communities in the UK.
PapayaTapper said:TooFineAPoint said:Buggery and upper class Brits go together like tea and crumpets, so really this is a very traditionalist statement from Father No-Theology.
Leave it to the Brits to give ass-fucking an artsy name as if it's skilled endeavor one takes classes for at the Learning Annex like photography, pottery, archery, tapestry, etc.....
"Introduction to Buggery" Mondays and Thursdays at 6pm
Leonard D Neubache said:Surely the Bible contains some mechanism empowering the earthly followers of Christ to deal with blasphemers and subverters of God's house.
If so, what?
9But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the Law, because these things are pointless and worthless. 10Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, 11knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.
1Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies that even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of the truth will be defamed. 3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with tales they have concocted. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them in chains to be held in gloomy darknessa until their judgment; 5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; 6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction,b reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;c 7and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
10Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, these men are unafraid to slander angelic majesties. 11Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.
12These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed. 13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness.
They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you. 14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickedness. 16But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. 18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice the ones who are just escaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corruption. For a man is a slave to whatever has overcome him.
20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through their knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,d only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. 21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and turned away from the holy commandment passed on to them. 22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”e and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
6I am astonished how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a divine curse! 9As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you embraced, let him be under a divine curse!
Paracelsus said:and As the catterpillar [sic] chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
Paracelsus said:Johnnyvee said:If only Henry the 8th was still around!
This fags head would have been chopped of before
he could even say same-sex marriage.
Um, Henry VIII was the original leftie degenerate. The very reason he founded the Anglican Church was because the Catholic Pope refused to let him divorce Catherine of Aragon, his wife, and thereby free himself to bang Anne Boleyn. Henry basically spat on the very church he'd been pronounced a defender of. This cleric is acting in precisely the spirit of the Anglican Church's origins.
Stanley Ntagali, the Archbishop of Uganda, has disclosed that he will not attend the next meeting of Anglican leaders citing the gradual acceptance of same-sex marriage by the church.
The 62-year-old who also doubles as Bishop of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, in an interview with the BBC said he was not prepared to engage with people who took ‘an unbiblical view of marriage.’
He made the comments after joining the global leader of the church, Justin Welby – Archbishop of Canterbury – to visit refugee camps in the country’s north. Welby is on an African tour that saw him visit Sudan where he declared the 39th province of the church in Khartoum.
The next meeting of the church’s global leadership is slated for October this year in England but Ntagali says he will not take part – a decision supported fully by senior clergy of the local church.
The Archbishop made an early exit from the last leaders meeting held in January 2016, citing the same issue as reason for his action. Two of the church’s main branches have elected to support same sex marriage in the recent past – the Scottish and Canadian Episcopal Churches.
Ugandan laws and the crackdown on same-sex relationships
Last year alone, Ugandan security forces cracked down on gay rights activists. First in August as police raided a night club where a gay pride event was underway and arrested at least 15 people, accusing them of staging an illegal gathering and promoting homosexuality.
A month later, a planned gay parade was stopped by police. Authorities argued that such gatherings were illegal under Uganda’s penal code.
The armed policemen blocked over 100 LGBT people from staging the annual event at two separate locations outside the capital, Kampala. Patrons were ordered into the vehicles and driven to Kampala for questioning. They were later set free without any charges.
In 2009, a Ugandan lawmaker introduced a bill that prescribed the death penalty for some homosexual acts, saying he wanted to protect Ugandan children.
The proposed bill prompted international condemnation. A less severe version of the bill passed by lawmakers was rejected by a Ugandan court as unconstitutional.