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>"pyotr filipivich" mindspring.com> wrote in message
>news:foga241vbpdvfqj08v7dangt4m27v2r37n@4ax.com...

>>I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that "Trent Howard"
>> Howard.com> wrote on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:55:27 GMT in
>> alt.religion.christian.episcopal :

>>>On 16-Jul-2006, "Fred Goodwin, CMA" yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>> It was with great joy that religious members of the progressive
>>>> movement received, late last month, news of the election of Bishop
>>>> Katharine Jefferts Schori to the top leadership position in the U.S.
>>>> Episcopal Church. For one, the fact of the bishop's gender heralded
>>>> an important first for Episcopalians, whose rites and rituals cling
>>>> closely to those of the Roman Catholic Church. Furthermore, the
>>>> inclusive position taken by Jefferts Schori with regard to the full
>>>> participation of gays and lesbians in the church sent a powerful
>>>> message to Christian churches around the globe.

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>>>Thank you Fred.
>>>Wonderful strides were made at General Convention. The mementum is headed
>>>toward to inclusive, Christful way of life. The many desenters only call
>>>attention and affirm it.

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>> Inclusive. That's the buzz word. The Episcopal Church has
>> become so inclusive, it can't exclude anyone. Gnostics, syncretistic,
>> nestorians, apostates - there is room for all of them in the New
>> Contemporary Episcopal Church. You don't have to be trapped by
>> antiquated forms of beliefs, what was good enough for the Apostles was
>> just their own cultural expression of the loving one another.
>> Feh, the Anglican churches of the north (US, Canada and the UK) no
>> longer see a need to be bound by such ancient restrictions as Hooker's
>> famous three legged stool of Scripture supported by Tradition and
>> Reason. That's now considered so Ancient History.
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>> So the momentum in the Episcopal Church in the US is towards a
>> more inclusive way of life. Inclusive of everyone who doesn't hold to
>> Tradition, it appears. But hey, that's what is important, accepting
>> all people who believe as they will, right? None of that "Christ is
>> risen" mythology, it is so exclusionary, isn't it.
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>> Well,have fun worshipping your god.

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>Most Church of England Christians believe in the three historic Creeds.