Apparently, TEC has decided it’s raison d’être is to resist fundamentalism. The good news is, at least it’s stopped pretending to be a Christian Church:
h/t Povey Prattle
Anglican Samizdat
Apparently, TEC has decided it’s raison d’être is to resist fundamentalism. The good news is, at least it’s stopped pretending to be a Christian Church:
h/t Povey Prattle
This is disgusting. I know the priest in the picture. I don’t know what prank you are trying to pull, but I consider it defamation of character. She done nothing to deserve your taunting. You should retract the photo.
I assure you that this is not a concoction of mine. It appeared first on Facebook apparently and, ostensibly, really is a TEC poster.
It’s hard to believe they could be that stupid – although every day it gets a little easier – but it seems they are. Maybe it will end up being proved bogus – we’ll see.
If you do a search on the title of the poster, you will find quite a few sites reporting on it – here
David,
I have to stand with Eph. on this one.
Here you go again using unsubstantiated images just because they are topical and in the public domain.
I bet you didn’t even have the subjects’ permission to use their images. They aren’t icons you know!
Hello Jim,
From what I have heard of certain goings on in the USA there is a lot of lobbying happening to prevent a bill that would make the internet subject to copyright laws (or at least sort of). Seems that sights like facebook and wikipedia don’t like the idea of having to monitor the content on their websites as this would cost them too much money. Anyway, for the time being it seems that copyright infringements and plagurism are ok on the internet.
As for the poster itself, I think that it is a perfectly acceptable from of protest. How many times has the socialists and left wing used images of people without their permission in order to make a point? Besides, can anyone point out to me anything in the pictures that is not true? TEC does have women ordination, does openly embrace homosexual lifestyle choices and everything that goes along with it, and is very open to the lifestyle suggested by the martini drinker (looks to me like a single guy hoping to pick up a girl at a bar in order to have a good time). The only thing that I would consider innacurate would be the “since 1784”, which perhaps would be more accurate as “since 1984”.
If people are offended by this than good. Sometimes the truth is not nice and people should be offended by it.
Except that the woman in question is an actually priest and the others appear to be staged or cherry picked for the poster. The priest is in the diocese of Toronto. She is being equated with an organization she is not a member of and the poster presents a theological opinion that is inaccurate. If there is a slight against TEC for ordaining women then this is shared with ANiC the ELCIC, the Prebyterians and so on. It is not a defining characteristic that sets them apart from other churches. We all know the poster is a sham. I feel sorry for the priest however.
If the priest is from the diocese of Toronto, it seems to lend some credence to the poster being bogus.
As someone pointed out elsewhere, a real TEC poster would not have left out the comma after “Jesus”.
Also, someone else said: “I’m suspicious. The “poster” is too devastatingly accurate to be anything but a parody.”
As I mentioned in my first comment, much as I would like to, I can’t take credit for the poster.
Hello Eph
As I indicated earlier, the left wing find nothing wrong with including things that are less than 100% accurate in their propoganda, so why should anyone have a problem with the woman in priests clothes being in the DoT and not currently in TEC? Besides, the fact does remain true that TEC does ordain women, and in this respect the image is factual.
That other denominations also ordain women does not in any way diminish the fact that woman ordination is something that people like me do not agree with and cannot support. The Roman Catholics do not do it. The Orthadox Churches do not do it. The majority of Anglicans around the world do not do it. These three make up the the three largest Christian denominations and account for the overwhelmingly huge majority of Christians in the world. So who do so many Christians not support woman ordination. The answer is simple. God does not accept women as his Priests.
What actually is being said here (by Eph., etc)? Is that: this is not a genuine TEC poster OR that it is genuine but TEC is defamed by the suggestion it’s no longer a Christian Church? Is the priest being defamed because 1 it says “I’m Episcopalian”, 2 because it claims she’s resisting fundamentalism 3 she’s been put into a poster that may be bogus or 4 David’s claim that her church is no longer Christian? Let’s be specific! If there are any authoritative experts around, on use/abuse of internet images in copyright law, there’d sure be lots of business for them …
Amp,
There are times when I make my sarcasm too subtle.(A result of my brain being too convoluted!) Apologies.