Although I am not an avid fan of Donald Trump, I am very much enjoying the reaction of elitist liberals whose disdain for and aloofness from the common herd helped propel Trump to victory.
Such is the “shock, grief and confusion” of Bishop Melissa Skelton, that she felt moved to write a pastoral letter to calm the disquiet of her flock over the results of democracy in action in her homeland:
Dear People of the Diocese of New Westminster
I awoke this morning, as many of you did, in shock, grief and confusion as the elections in the US concluded. While, as a person born in the US, I could offer my own analysis of what happened, I’m more interested in saying just a few things to you in the face of these events in the life of our neighbour to the south, a neighbour who deeply influences us and the rest of the world.
Stay a while with your uncomfortable feelings and the things you may now be curious about. One piece I read this morning talked about our own urge to get past the uncomfortable feelings that many of us may be feeling today. I encourage you to stay in touch with both the feelings and the questions that are coming up for you out of what has occurred over these many months. It may be that God is working in you as you experience your own response and as you discern how you may wish to respond.
Democracy is so burdensome and the world should really be run by sensitive and wonderful people like Bishop Skelton and not the great unwashed. Hurt feelings abound in the A C of C, I am sure, and surely the very least the Bishop could do is to provide individual grief counselling for her stricken flock.
Yup….
Auguring the end of ‘free trade’ in Baal worship and its abominable practices always is disconcerting:
to its TEC false prophets who come North to do so.
“Shock, grief and confusion” is a great way to describe my state upon the conclusion of just about every Synod the past 20 years or so.
Good one, Andrew. You speak for many of us.
Vox populi, vox Dei.
Yup…that’s what happened when same-sex marriage was approved during the last synod.
“Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.”
Which certainly applies to a tiny sub-educated subculture such as that. Two-thirds of those voters must have believed one or more of these falsehoods: That the Holy Scriptures are ambiguous about same-sex physical intimacy; that we may not know what were the convictions and practice of the Lord Jesus; that the phenomenon was different in the ancient world; that the behaviour of those with same-sex leanings is genetically pre-determined; that Christian love requires us to ‘bless’ same-sex ‘unions’; that people of the same sex can consummate sexually; and that all love may legitim¬ately find an intimate physical expression. It is important to note that none of these positions is held by serious biblical and theological professionals: for instance, even those very few scholars who hold that the Scriptures are mistaken acknowledge that they are wholly adverse to same-sex practice. For none of these positions has the case ever been made outside advocacy scholarship, for the very sound reason that such a case cannot be made, and the most positive thing that may be said of such views is that they are less than informed.
The real populus (David, we do need italics here!) has been voting with its feet for decades now.
The media has made much of the results of the U.S. election and have generally painted Hillary Clinton as a saint. However, the facts are that neither candidate is worthy of such an important position. One is very rough in language and actions while the other favours the murder of babies right up to the moment of birth – the polite term for this is abortion – and both have been shown to be dishonest. Each candidate is virtually as bad as the other. I believe the results could be a sign of judgement on North America for virtually spitting in God’s face which is exactly what the ACoC has done to orthodox Christians by legally stealing properties and/or evicting orthodox Christians from their buildings.
Brandon Washington, Pastor of the Embassy Church in Denver, Colorado, wrote: “Despair and optimism are both inappropriate because hope hinges on the temporary holder of a temporal office. Our hope is in the Christ who is divinely appointed as eternal King” (Christianity Today, November 12, 2016). God is still the Ruler of the universe. Christians have nothing to fear.