The comment above is what got me labeled a troll and banned at Stand Firm back in December. Before it was deleted, I captured the comment in a screen shot. My words were in response to a post by Sarah Hey titled "Upper South Carolina Clergy; Lay Leaders Elect Revisionist As Bishop, Choose Further Decline" and the comments which followed. Sorry, no link. What remains instead of my comment is shown below, also from a screen shot.
The Bible verse cited below the comment box is Matthew 5:43-45
‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.Am I the only person who detects a bit of dissonance here? Mind you, I don't care about being banned from SF, because I registered only recently to comment about the election in the Diocese of Louisiana of Bishop-elect Morris Thompson, who was being dissed over there. I left a couple of comments saying something to the effect that we could give Bishop Thompson a chance, pray for him, that the Diocese of Louisiana is not in imminent danger of death, and that's it, after which Sarah Hey labeled me a "known raving revisionist".
Then, I went back when the author of the post and the commenters were trashing Bishop-elect Andrew Waldo of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, which is Sarah Hey's diocese, and I only got so far as the above comment. It's probably a good thing that I'm banned, because the atmosphere at SF feels toxic to me.
So why this post? I don't really know. For the record?
