Font Rants on Many Subjects

The ordained elite think that they've got some special relationship with Jesus because they went to Div School; and this entitles them to lord over us all (as if it were the only calling that mattered). If you ask me the problem with the Church is that the ministers have forgotten that they are the servants, Christ is the master, and the laypersons are the house guests who've come to the feast. I realize this view cuts in to their personal power trip. The real heresy that is killing the Church isn't ordaining gays; it's ordaining people who seek power over others instead of service to Christ. This is exactly the same attitude that lets a priest go from parish to parish raping children. Of course as soon as you call these jerks on this BS; they fall into this ridiculous self-pitying woe is me thing, where you'd think you'd nailed them to the cross. My attitude these days is, my boss is a carpenter; let me see if I can find the nails. How many lives and relationships have been destroyed over ordination of women and gays; compared to how many lives have been destroyed by clergy who abused their congregants. The longer we spend on this BS about the prayer book, the gays, and the women priests; the less time we spend on the real issues. The real issues are:

1. No one wants to go to your church because you spend all your time fighting about who can join.
2. No one wants to go to your church because they don't trust you to be alone with your children or spouses.
3. No one wants to go to your church because you offer nothing more compelling than pop-Christianity that they can get from CBN any time they turn on their TV.

I demand a spiritual community of peers. I demand a community where priests hear their calling as a servant of the community; not the lord and master. I demand that my priest stop trying to be my own personal Jesus Christ and instead just help me with the introduction to the real thing.

And another thing; I’m sick of these whiners who want some kind of conscience clause, or are afraid we are going to piss off the “African” Bishops. The conscience clause just legitimizes their heresy. They want us to recognize their orders, but they refuse to recognize those who we’ve ordained. I say we not only ordain the new Bishop of New Hampshire, but require that every member of the house of Bishops take his communion. Either we are one communion; or we are not.

As for the African Bishops; if I were in their shoes I think I’d realize that these windbags in the US are the worst kinds of allies for them. If you read closely what the old guard in the US believes that Africans are incapable of dealing with any intellectual sort of spirituality. They are saying that we can’t possibly vote for this because the African’s won’t understand it. They think the Africans are a bunch of uneducated savages incapable of having more then the most basic and simple of faiths. It’s time we gave up our 19th century notions of Africa; and start treating each other as adults. If these bishops in Africa want to go another way; then perhaps it’s for the best. I’m not going to belong to a church that preaches down to them. I’m going to work for a church that recognizes them as peers; and engages them in honest intellectual debate.