SCREWTAPE Proposes an Episcopal Toast (14)
SCREWTAPE Proposes an Episcopal Toast (14)
With apologies to C.S. Lewis
A Satirical Essay
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
Sept. 25, 2010
My Dear Wormwood,
The Anglican Communion is slowly but surely coming unglued while Dr. Rowan Williams' shadowboxes, placing form over substance. While this is sweet music to our ears, it is not playing out as we had hoped or anticipated.
The Global South archbishops and bishops are not buying his soft shoe approach to doctrine (Williams' private views on sodomy should not be confused with his public stance). They are beginning to see through him. While they are endlessly polite, their patience is running out. That must not be allowed to continue, Wormwood. Nip it in the bud. Keep everybody at the table. Make sure Williams keeps singing the song of unity at all and any cost.
We were particularly concerned about Archbishop Henry Orombi's blunt statement that "diplomacy is dead" uttered recently in Uganda. Those are not words we want to hear. They highlight differences and negate all that talk made famous by Mrs. Jefferts Schori about the "other", a term that refers to anyone who no longer perceives themselves as White, Anglo-Saxon and vaguely Protestant. The guilt-ridden angst of effete white liberals bemoaning the plight of the "other" must continue to play itself out until it has run its course.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
With apologies to C.S. Lewis
A Satirical Essay
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
Sept. 25, 2010
My Dear Wormwood,
The Anglican Communion is slowly but surely coming unglued while Dr. Rowan Williams' shadowboxes, placing form over substance. While this is sweet music to our ears, it is not playing out as we had hoped or anticipated.The Global South archbishops and bishops are not buying his soft shoe approach to doctrine (Williams' private views on sodomy should not be confused with his public stance). They are beginning to see through him. While they are endlessly polite, their patience is running out. That must not be allowed to continue, Wormwood. Nip it in the bud. Keep everybody at the table. Make sure Williams keeps singing the song of unity at all and any cost.
We were particularly concerned about Archbishop Henry Orombi's blunt statement that "diplomacy is dead" uttered recently in Uganda. Those are not words we want to hear. They highlight differences and negate all that talk made famous by Mrs. Jefferts Schori about the "other", a term that refers to anyone who no longer perceives themselves as White, Anglo-Saxon and vaguely Protestant. The guilt-ridden angst of effete white liberals bemoaning the plight of the "other" must continue to play itself out until it has run its course.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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