tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post7557201860714807975..comments2024-01-29T00:00:28.464+02:00Comments on MunteanUK: The slow but certain death of Anglicanism [Moartea lentă, dar sigură a anglicanismului]MunteanUKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-67147227474597161902010-10-17T15:18:10.243+03:002010-10-17T15:18:10.243+03:00Some links to add...
[11] A former Anglican '...Some links to add...<br /><br />[11] A former Anglican 'bishop' who accepted the Pope's offer to leave the CoE, accuses Anglican hierarchs of being 'fascist' and 'vindictive':<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8068694/Church-of-England-is-fascist-and-vindictive-says-bishop-defecting-to-Rome.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[12] Other Anglican 'bishops' who have turned papists in the past months:<br />http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100026435/church-of-england-bishop-converts-to-rome/<br />http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100059134/earthquake-in-anglo-catholicism-bishop-of-fulham-to-convert-to-rome-forward-in-faith-no-longer-anglican/<br /><br />***<br /><br />[13] A 'civil war' inside the worldwide Anglican Communuion?<br />http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jonathanwynne-jones/100005924/americans-planning-to-start-civil-war-in-church-of-england/<br /><br />***<br /><br />[14] This pathetic CoE is trying to broaden its appeal with songs by U2 and prayers for Google and Wal-Mart:<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5523904/Church-of-England-attempts-to-broaden-appeal-with-songs-by-U2-and-prayers-for-Google.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[15] Only 23% of those born after 1982 could be see as 'traditional believers':<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/8045388/God-isnt-dead-he-has-just-turned-green.html<br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/oct/17/christianity-religion<br /><br />...and I'm still inviting my readers to post other relevant links here!MunteanUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-43851059135811755342010-02-12T16:01:20.806+02:002010-02-12T16:01:20.806+02:00Other 'SIGNS OF DEATH' shown by the Church...Other 'SIGNS OF DEATH' shown by the Church of England (CoE)<br /><br />For anyone interesed in the CoE's ongoing demise, and happening to land on this blog page, here I am giving links to stories which prove how desperate is the situation within this so-called 'church':<br /><br />[1] Lay workers accuse the CoE of having frozen their pay:<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7213448/Church-of-England-staff-could-picket-Archbishop-of-Canterburys-residence.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[2] CoE backs equal pension rights for gay clergy partners:<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7216466/General-Synod-Church-of-England-backs-equal-pension-rights-for-gay-clergy-partners.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[3] It declared that although sex is best kept for marriage, couples who live together and have children without a wedding will no longer be regarded as living in sin<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201551/Now-children-baptised-marry-says-Church-England.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[4] Women overtook men as new CoE clergy in 2007:<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493367/Women-overtake-men-new-Church-England-clergy.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[5] A first woman should become CoE 'bishop' in a couple of years:<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1102907/Compromise-Church-England-proposes-bring-women-bishops-years.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[6] Something about the cost of maintaining the lavish lifestyles of the bishops, who need chaffeurs, gardeners & all kinds of personnel:<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-449214/The-lavish-lifestyles-Church-England-bishops-spending-increases-4-million.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[7] Ridiculous attempts to bring younger people to church:<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213514/Listen-rappin-crew-come-pew--church-tries-appeal-young.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[8] CoE officials issued apologies to Charles Darwin for having 'misunderstood' his theory:<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055597/Church-makes--8216-ludicrous-8217-apology-Charles-Darwin--126-years-death.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[9] A CoE 'bishop' says that the high financial cost of keeping desperately ill babies alive should be a factor in life or death decisions:<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-416003/Outrage-Church-backs-calls-severely-disabled-babies-killed-birth.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />[10] The irrational (and certainly not Christian!) fear swine flu led to the CoE leaders ban on passing round the chalice at communion to avoid spreading of the virus:<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201736/Dont-use-chalice-communion-avoid-spread-swine-flu-says-Church-England.html<br /><br />***<br /><br />Anyone's welcome to post more of these 'signs of death', as I seriosuly doubt that any of my readers could forward examples of some signs of 'revival'.MunteanUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-65408583576791689422010-02-03T15:06:34.484+02:002010-02-03T15:06:34.484+02:00In relation to what I was writing above at 2), it ...In relation to what I was writing above at 2), it seems that Big Brother is backing down...<br /><br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7012842.ece<br /><br />...at least for the time being.MunteanUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-13130245720789503172010-02-02T18:28:25.271+02:002010-02-02T18:28:25.271+02:00Dear Gregor,
First of all, I must say I'm cur...Dear Gregor,<br /><br />First of all, I must say I'm curious about what you have been doing lately, because it's the third time (if I remember well) when you say "I wish I had more time to write on this" :-)<br /><br />I hope you are 'busy' in the most positive meaning; that is you are doing interesting & useful things.<br /><br />Then, here are some of my comments to your comment:<br /><br />*** <br /><br />1) I didn't exactly understood what you meant by describing the Anglican belief that "wealth and power should separate the congregation" - do you want to say that the Church of England (CoE) has always been some kind of 'exclusivist' club?<br /><br />Was this 'church' - founded by not quite a virtuous king, let us never forget this! - more a political instrument of the English upper class than anything which had to do with Christ?<br /><br />Did this CoE became irrelevant in the past decades as the English aristocracy became irrelevant?<br /><br />Wasn't it doomed to reach the final stages of moral putrefaction (reached these days) from the very beginning? <br /><br />***<br /><br />2) I'm at least partially aware of this controversed 'Equality Bill', as it became known outside Britain because of Pope Benedict's stance against it.<br /><br />The way I see it, this law is not about 'protecting' homosexuals; it really makes a 'privileged class' of them, it puts the abnormal about the normal, it seriously undermines the freedom of normal people... <br /><br />Therefore, I can only agree with the Pope that this law is against the antural law, and also agree with you that is yet another sign of the British democracy's utter failure. <br /><br />***<br /><br />3) As long as Big Brother's state - or any state for that matter! - has no right to interfere with gay people's lives, it shouldn't interfere with normal people's beliefs. <br /><br />Any harrasment, humiliation, assault against homosexuals should be forbidden and punished, not because they are gay, but because they are human beings! <br /><br />But why are we being forcibly fed with their abnormality? Why are we suppossed to accept their sin as an 'alternative' and perfectly legitimate way of life?<br /><br />Of course, we shouldn't throw stones at sinners, but we should be allowed to call sins by their names, and homosexuality is a grave sin!<br /><br />***<br /><br />4) These so-called 'bishops' & 'archbishops' of the CoE don't lack 'crowds' to stand by them - they lack Christ & the Holy Spirit to guide them. <br /><br />They are in charge of a sinking ship, some genuinely trying to save what they imagine it could still be saved, others making one compromise after another, sinking deeper & deeper into a filthy swamp.<br /><br />The CoE has no future because it's just a corrupted earthly institution, pretending to speak on Christ's behalf, but actually not knowing Him.<br /><br />I imagine how 'politically incorect' my statement sounds, yet I don't doubt that this is the truth.MunteanUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-27456285085236253832010-02-02T16:01:01.919+02:002010-02-02T16:01:01.919+02:00Dear Bogdan
I wish I had more time to write on thi...Dear Bogdan<br />I wish I had more time to write on this, but I think one point to be made is that there is a strong spiritual heresy in the Anglican Church: the belief that wealth and power should separate the congregation and that 'the people' is a derogatory term. <br /><br />Now there is some legislation that I don't fully understand but which seems to be telling the churches in Britain that they have to marry gay people. <br /><br />If this is the case (the wording is very convoluted) then I find it a sign we are no longer a liberal democracy. <br /><br />Ironically enough, the gays should realise that they have a shared interest with Christians in having a state that doesn't snoop on people. <br /><br />There was a gifted homosexual pianist called Yuri Yegorov who fled the anti-Christian USSR for the free Christian West (as it was then). <br /><br />Whilst, as a Christian, I see these people's lifestyles as incompatible with the Gospels, and the laws concerning marriage found therein, I don't feel superior to them and as a citizen I think that the state should generally mind its own business. <br /><br />Yet in the two atheist dictatorships, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, homosexuals were sent to death camps.<br /><br />However, we come back to the Anglican church's social heresy: it is the church of the respectable and wealthy. If these laws were introduced to Greece or Romania then there would be demonstrations against the state tampering with the Church. <br /><br />Who have the Anglican Bishops to blame but themselves, if they have no 'crowds' to support them?Gregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729641571904025752noreply@blogger.com