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In the process of fileting this “pastoral letter” on how much white Americans suck, Jackie Bruchi made an amazing discovery. Seems that most of us, the Editor included, completely misjudged Katharine Jefferts Schori.
As Jackie demonstrates, the Presiding Bishop actually has a long way to go before she attains the status of intellectual and theological lightweight. Since you really need to read Jackie’s masterful beatdown, I’ll just limit myself to a few observations on Mrs. Schori’s…whatever this is:
The first biblical creation story tells of the creation of earth, sky, waters, creatures, and gives human beings dominion over the rest. God pronounces what has been created good. At the end of the original week of creation, with the advent of human beings, God blesses all of it, and pronounces the work very good.
So far, so good.
The second creation story tells of what goes wrong – the first two earth creatures eat what they have been forbidden to eat, and are then expelled from the garden.
The very first turn of the very first lap of the Daytona 500 and Mrs. Schori drives her Dodge straight into the wall; I guess NASCAR’s just not her thing. “First two earth creatures?” Not so much, if you’ve actually read Genesis or take evolution seriously.
There are lots of “earth creatures,” Presiding Bishop. But only one of those “earth creatures” was created in the image of God. And why were those “earth creatures” really expelled from the Garden anyway? FOOD AND DRINK WARNING: Before proceeding, immediately swallow anything you may currently be eating or drinking and move any and all snacks and/or drinks a safe distance away from your computer.
They have misunderstood what it means to exercise dominion toward life in the garden.
Click on the link. The woman actually wrote that.
Let me get this straight. God tells Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil or they’ll die. Satan tempts Eve, Eve eats the fruit, she hands some to Adam, he eats it, a bunch of other stuff happens and then both are expelled from the Garden.
Somehow, according to Katharine Jefferts Schori, that means that Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden because they misunderstood what “dominion” means. If Mrs. Schori is correct, that seems a trifle unfair. If Adam and Even just “misunderstood” dominion, God should have explained exactly what dominion means, let Adam and Eve stay in the Garden and saved us all a lot of trouble.
Of course, the Presiding Bishop is inconsistent here (yeah, I know, sun rises in east, dog bites man, MSNBC’s lips are sore from kissing the presidential behind, etc). Two “bishops” in her “church” regularly have sexual relations with people whom God says that they’re not supposed to have sexual relations with. According to Schorian “logic,” that means that neither one understands sexuality. Yet Mrs. Schori had no problem with TEO giving pointy hats to both of them.
Through the millennia, many of their offspring have continued to misunderstand dominion, or to willfully twist the divine intent of dominion toward the conceit of domination. Through the ages, human beings have too often insisted that what exists has been made for their individual use, and that force may be used against anyone who seems to compete for a particular created resource. The result has been enormous destruction, death, despair, and downright evil – what is more commonly called “sin.”
So much blithering idiocy, so little time. We have too often insisted that anything that exists is there for our personal use, have we? I guess we should only use things that don’t exist which means that I can finally take all my excess weight off. Boy howdy, will I look good in the brief period before I die.
The liberal theological mind par excellence. “Human beings have too often insisted that what exists has been made for their individual use, and that force may be used against anyone who seems to compete for a particular created resource.” The result is “what is more commonly called ‘sin.’”
Is anything else “commonly called ‘sin,’” Presiding Bishop? It’s a sin to use force to take somebody else’s stuff. Fine. But if my best friend’s wife and I use no force whatsoever to bump uglies whenever my best friend’s not around, is that a sin too? Or does it depend on the size of my pledge check? One more and then I’m done.
The blessings of creation are meant to be stewarded, in the way of husbanding and housekeeping, for the true meaning of dominion is tied to the constellation of meanings around house and household. There have been strands of the biblical tradition which have kept this sacred understanding alive, but the unholy quest for domination has sought to quench it, in favor of wanton accumulation and exclusive possession of the goods of creation for an individual or a small part of the blessed family of God.
Says the woman whose pseudo-spiritual debating society with floor show has uncounted millions of dollars sunk into kicking actual Christians out of their meeting houses in order to keep buildings that will never again house viable Episcopal congregations. The kid who murdered his parents and then begged for mercy from the court because he was an orphan thinks that’s messed up, Presiding Bishop.
As Jackie demonstrates, the Presiding Bishop actually has a long way to go before she attains the status of intellectual and theological lightweight. Since you really need to read Jackie’s masterful beatdown, I’ll just limit myself to a few observations on Mrs. Schori’s…whatever this is:
The first biblical creation story tells of the creation of earth, sky, waters, creatures, and gives human beings dominion over the rest. God pronounces what has been created good. At the end of the original week of creation, with the advent of human beings, God blesses all of it, and pronounces the work very good.
So far, so good.
The second creation story tells of what goes wrong – the first two earth creatures eat what they have been forbidden to eat, and are then expelled from the garden.
The very first turn of the very first lap of the Daytona 500 and Mrs. Schori drives her Dodge straight into the wall; I guess NASCAR’s just not her thing. “First two earth creatures?” Not so much, if you’ve actually read Genesis or take evolution seriously.
There are lots of “earth creatures,” Presiding Bishop. But only one of those “earth creatures” was created in the image of God. And why were those “earth creatures” really expelled from the Garden anyway? FOOD AND DRINK WARNING: Before proceeding, immediately swallow anything you may currently be eating or drinking and move any and all snacks and/or drinks a safe distance away from your computer.
They have misunderstood what it means to exercise dominion toward life in the garden.
Click on the link. The woman actually wrote that.
Let me get this straight. God tells Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil or they’ll die. Satan tempts Eve, Eve eats the fruit, she hands some to Adam, he eats it, a bunch of other stuff happens and then both are expelled from the Garden.
Somehow, according to Katharine Jefferts Schori, that means that Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden because they misunderstood what “dominion” means. If Mrs. Schori is correct, that seems a trifle unfair. If Adam and Even just “misunderstood” dominion, God should have explained exactly what dominion means, let Adam and Eve stay in the Garden and saved us all a lot of trouble.
Of course, the Presiding Bishop is inconsistent here (yeah, I know, sun rises in east, dog bites man, MSNBC’s lips are sore from kissing the presidential behind, etc). Two “bishops” in her “church” regularly have sexual relations with people whom God says that they’re not supposed to have sexual relations with. According to Schorian “logic,” that means that neither one understands sexuality. Yet Mrs. Schori had no problem with TEO giving pointy hats to both of them.
Through the millennia, many of their offspring have continued to misunderstand dominion, or to willfully twist the divine intent of dominion toward the conceit of domination. Through the ages, human beings have too often insisted that what exists has been made for their individual use, and that force may be used against anyone who seems to compete for a particular created resource. The result has been enormous destruction, death, despair, and downright evil – what is more commonly called “sin.”
So much blithering idiocy, so little time. We have too often insisted that anything that exists is there for our personal use, have we? I guess we should only use things that don’t exist which means that I can finally take all my excess weight off. Boy howdy, will I look good in the brief period before I die.
The liberal theological mind par excellence. “Human beings have too often insisted that what exists has been made for their individual use, and that force may be used against anyone who seems to compete for a particular created resource.” The result is “what is more commonly called ‘sin.’”
Is anything else “commonly called ‘sin,’” Presiding Bishop? It’s a sin to use force to take somebody else’s stuff. Fine. But if my best friend’s wife and I use no force whatsoever to bump uglies whenever my best friend’s not around, is that a sin too? Or does it depend on the size of my pledge check? One more and then I’m done.
The blessings of creation are meant to be stewarded, in the way of husbanding and housekeeping, for the true meaning of dominion is tied to the constellation of meanings around house and household. There have been strands of the biblical tradition which have kept this sacred understanding alive, but the unholy quest for domination has sought to quench it, in favor of wanton accumulation and exclusive possession of the goods of creation for an individual or a small part of the blessed family of God.
Says the woman whose pseudo-spiritual debating society with floor show has uncounted millions of dollars sunk into kicking actual Christians out of their meeting houses in order to keep buildings that will never again house viable Episcopal congregations. The kid who murdered his parents and then begged for mercy from the court because he was an orphan thinks that’s messed up, Presiding Bishop.
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