Saturday, October 30, 2010

MALCOLM+ ON THE COVENANT - A FABLE


Malcolm+ at Simple Massing Priest shares an Aesop fable with us, which works well as we consider the Anglican Daft Covenant.

Count me amongst the resisting frogs. I'm just saying.

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  1. I also read it, and love the sign.

    I think the Daft Covenant will be the most divisive thing since Oliver Cromwell rode into London.

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  2. Love the cartoon...

    (the vword is distra...)

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  3. Wow, that's a STUNNINGLY apt illustration to go w/ the story!

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  4. I think the Daft Covenant will be the most divisive thing since Oliver Cromwell rode into London.

    God damn, does any Anglican/Episcopalian anywhere know anything, any damn thing at all, about this period in history? Or is every blessed person out there just making it up as they go?!!!!

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  5. Whoa, Cathy! That got a rise out of you. I didn't say it!

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  6. It did. Sorry. I know you didn't, Mimi. I've calmed down now (a bit). It's all on the back of my long argument on OCICBW the other day on the same subject.

    I suppose I should acknowledge that I am Protestant to the core, really. Always have been. Always will be. :-)

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  7. I am Protestant to the core, really. Always have been. Always will be.

    No! And to think I never knew! ;-)

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  8. Obviously I've hidden it well then :-)

    I'll whisper this very quietly in case Mad Priest or others are listening: not sure I believe in a priest "class". I'm with Luther on that one. (It being the 493rd anniversary today of Martin Luther's decision to nail his grievances about the church to the church door in Wittenberg, it seems appropriate to say so.)

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  9. ... wot I'm saying is: Hurray for the resisting frogs. Civilisation needs them :-)

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  10. MadPriest knows already that I'm a tad, just a tad anti-clerical. At the same time, I have a large number of priest friends, and I love them all. My ambivalence baffles even me.

    I started to post on the anniversary of the 95 Theses, but when I read them, I found quite a few that I didn't much like, though I did like No. 27.

    There is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of the purgatory immediately the money clinks in the bottom of the chest.

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  11. There is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of the purgatory immediately the money clinks in the bottom of the chest.

    Preach it, brother!

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  12. Luther was by no means a perfect person and harboured quite a few worrying attitudes but he is still one of the heroes of western history.

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