Episcopal bishops in the US are complaining that politicians are calling for prayer after the murder of many in the congregation at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. In a pronouncement whose role-reversal irony evades the bishops – as we all know bishops are renowned for being politicians-manqué – the bishops want action not prayer. Prayer is the job of bishops because only bishops have the wisdom to deliver the carefully nuanced incense-laced leftist propaganda to the Almighty necessary for the bishops to attain their political ambitions.
The problem, the bishops intone, is not the obvious one of a church which has ceased to affirm and preach the principles of its founder and thus has encouraged evil to flourish, but the 2nd Amendment.
Having given up on the job of leading people to Christ in order for him to transform the evil present within all of us, our bishops busy themselves with affirming our fallen nature, gasping with horror at the inevitable result, and attempt to limit the unavoidable damage by demanding politicians remove the external means we use to do that damage.
From here:
The campaign group United Against Gun Violence, which brings together more than 70 bishops from the U.S.-based Episcopal Church, has challenged the country’s leaders to act following the November 5 shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, which resulted in the deaths of 26 people.
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In the U.S., efforts to limit widespread gun ownership have been repeatedly thwarted by a highly-financed and effective gun-lobby that promotes the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which grants a right to bear arms. The 2nd amendment was ratified in 1791—eight years after the American War of Independence, and states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Regardless of its original intent, it is seen today by the gun lobby as the right for U.S. citizens to own, possess and carry weapons—including assault rifles. And despite a very large number of mass-shooting incidents, politicians appear unable—or unwilling—to take action to limit the number of weapons in circulation.
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Now the bishops have criticized political leaders for being quick to call people to pray following such shootings, while being slow to take action to prevent them.
“In the wake of the heartbreaking shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, we find ourselves both calling people to prayer, and wishing that the word did not come so readily to the lips of elected leaders who are quick to speak, but take no action on behalf of public safety,” the bishops said.
“70 bishops”. So, TEC today has at least 70 members, then?
This has to be the ideological sequitur of the President of the previous Administration’s inveighing against their Republican opponents’ “religion” of “God and guns”;
the Democrat Party now quite devoid of both;
and the TEC Bishops closely following them with the Blessings of Canterbury.
Yet another example of wanna-be left wing-nut politicians and socialists lobbyists. They are killing the Church that Jesus created and they are too blind to see it.
The TEC bishops might as we be against prayer as they have turned to that detestable god of political expediency and no longer recognize the God of the Scriptures or respect the authority of the Scriptures. Tragically they persist in their apostasy which is the reason the Anglican Communion is collapsing in the pit of apostasy.
Aren’t churches that engage in political activity subject to being stripped of their tax exempt status?
Also, a lot of Americans view the 2nd Amendment as affirmation of their right to have firearms adequate to give them a level of protection against the government. But then again, the U.S. government would never do anything against the best interests of its own citizens, would it?
“The 2nd amendment was ratified in 1791 – eight years after the American War of Independence…”
Yes, and so was the First Amendment, but no one seems to think that one is old-fashioned.
Sorry, bishops, You don’t get to cherry-pick constitutional rights; that’s not how it works.