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The Insulting Language of Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
COMMENTARY
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
June 23, 2010
The ability to demean, downgrade, insult and scapegoat reached a new high this week when the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church played down current tensions in the Anglican Communion by describing world Anglican leaders as being little more than "a bunch of teenagers growing up".
She also said the Archbishop of Canterbury is little more than a "big parent" behaving in a way that does not allow his "siblings" the provinces over which he presides as Primus inter pares (first among equals) to grow up.
Continuing her predecessor Frank Griswold's habit of demeaning African Anglican leaders when he was Presiding Bishop, later highlighted by the loose-lipped Bishop Charles Bennison who likened the growth of the Anglican Church in Africa to the growth of the Nazi Party, Jefferts Schori has consistently proclaimed her belief that her understanding of the Christian Faith is far superior to everyone else's and is more than happy to preach her "gospel" to a spiritually famished world she thinks is dying to hear it.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
COMMENTARY
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
June 23, 2010
The ability to demean, downgrade, insult and scapegoat reached a new high this week when the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church played down current tensions in the Anglican Communion by describing world Anglican leaders as being little more than "a bunch of teenagers growing up".She also said the Archbishop of Canterbury is little more than a "big parent" behaving in a way that does not allow his "siblings" the provinces over which he presides as Primus inter pares (first among equals) to grow up.
Continuing her predecessor Frank Griswold's habit of demeaning African Anglican leaders when he was Presiding Bishop, later highlighted by the loose-lipped Bishop Charles Bennison who likened the growth of the Anglican Church in Africa to the growth of the Nazi Party, Jefferts Schori has consistently proclaimed her belief that her understanding of the Christian Faith is far superior to everyone else's and is more than happy to preach her "gospel" to a spiritually famished world she thinks is dying to hear it.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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