Today, most people think that Christianity is a collection of antique superstitions no longer fit to be taken seriously by anyone whose reasoning faculties are intact.
This is not true, of course. Christianity is perfectly rational: it has its own set of presuppositions, none of which are less plausible than an atheist’s presumption that God does not exist. The Anglican Church of Canada has its heart set on changing all that: it is busy polluting the elegant inner coherence of Christian belief with vacuous rites whose meaning would stretch the credulity of anyone but an ACoC priest beyond the breaking point.
From here:
As we gathered in the chapel to celebrate Eucharist, our friend and colleague Barbara was preparing to smudge the altar. In attempting to light her sweetgrass braid from the altar candle, she held it too close to the flame and for a moment too long, and the flame sputtered and died.
Well, one of the very best things about extinguishing beeswax candles, as many of us know, is the rich honey scent that the smoke carries across a space as it disperses from the tiny flame into the wide world and then vanishes.
It turns out that at the moment that Barbara’s sweetgrass braid put out the flame, an ember appeared on its tip. Its smoldering smoke joined that of the spreading honey-scented beeswax as Barbara slowly circled the altar. The blending of smoke from sweetgrass and smoke from beeswax filled the space with what you might call a providential aroma; both sweetgrass and beeswax were there, but so was something else, something at once brand new and ancient, the aroma of encounter, partnership, hope.
More like the stink of nonsense.
No, friend, the ACoC has already exchanged Christian principles and worldview, so tripe like this comes as no surprise.
There is no longer any need to prove the ACoC has abandoned any allegiance to our Lord. Led by apostate so-called bishops, including the primate, it worships whatever seems right at the moment. Our Lord is nothing more than a curse word to them but they will “put on the dog” to deceive the laity.
Show me an article where a cleric is brought up short for preaching Christianity, and I’ll say you have something newsworthy.
You must be fully aware of the actions of the Dioceses of New Westminster and Niagara against orthodox believers by not only evicting them from buildings they had paid for but also legally stealing properties. If that does not convince you take a look at the intention to reform the marriage canon to accept and “bless” unions that are totally against the teaching of Scripture.
Same story here in the US; again, once Scripture is questioned, anything goes. If a church can ordain women, it can perform same-sex “marriage.” The time to have intervened was when the libs questioned Genesis.
My only comment is the reference to “libs”, the correct terminology is apostates. One can indeed be liberal or conservative in their style of worship but one must be orthodox in his beliefs if he is to be truly Christian. Once you reject either the authority of Scripture of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ you can only be classed as an apostate. Tragically many, if not most of the so-called bishops within the ACoC and the TEC fall into that camp.
I used the term “lib” with reference to JG Machen’s /Christianity and Liberalism/, in which he (successfully) arguec that Liberalism was a separate religion to Christianity, so basically we’re on the same sheet of music.
However, I suspect we differ on the style issue, because I reject the motion that style is neutral.