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Brian Stuckey of Denver writes:

Jean Torkelson’s column in the Rocky Mountain News is stirring reminder that the Episcopal Church is making little headway in averting the schisms that have devastated the denomination in recent years. The Church of the Holy Comforter in Broomfield is a case in point. The Episcopal Church, according to Torkelson, defines its mission on the basis of culture. That is true. Yet, as Fr. Chuck Reeder rightly contends, “God defines what sin is, not the culture.” Many of us remember when the church defined morality for society. Sadly, that is no longer the case. It is now the culture that dictates what is acceptable for the church. Unless the Episcopal Church reverts to its traditional teachings, it is unrealistic to believe that such schisms will not continue. As the proverb goes, “the way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.”

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READER COMMENTS

Substitute the word "Voodoo" for stuckeys' choice of "episcopal" and the word "cult" for the stuckeys choice of "culture" and you'd have a more accurate picture.

I agree, we need to start stoning adulterers to death, killing children who are disobedient & executing those who eat shellfish. Get back to the bible, people, this immorality is out of hand!

yes it is sad that we cannot go back to the days of the Spanish Inquisition. It was so nice to be able to kill non-believers

Notice "TheChurch of the Holy Comforter"?

So that is what they mean by "Bed, Bath, and Beyond".

Plunging membership , a changing membership mix away from traditional families and moral relativism have all spelled DOOM for this hyper-liberal political organization. Don't let the collars and incense fool you, this is a political organization with stained-glass windows.

Hank, everything you say might be true except the word organized. As a former Anglican Catholic, I know these people can seldom organize anything. They are a church, in the loosest sense, more of a social group of very wealthy people.

The wonderful thing about the Je$u$ Bu$ine$$ is, simply, if you don't like what the entrepreneur running the franchse peddling Brand A is doing, there's always another book-banging bullshitter just a few blocks down the street, peddling Brand B, and so on, and on, and on, and . . . ad infinitum ad nauseam.

And, there's always the Nigerian 419 JuJu Archbishop, waiting in the wings to take his cut of the swag, for those of that ilk.

Why in hell should anyone else be bothered about where you choose to be entertained - or take a nap - on Sunday Morning? Go buy season tickets, and pray to Saint Broncos, for all the difference it makes.

Or, for that matter, go start your own. That's what it's all about anyway. Any damn fool in America can be a Protestant Preacher. And they are.

Stuckey has been STUCK on this issue for months.

What's odd is he had yet to state or even imply that he is an episcopalian himself.
He's always ranting about what the church should and shouldn't do but he never explains what, if anything, any of this has to do with HIM.

Stuckey is well-known malcontent who is always griping about something. If he woke up tomorrow and the world was exactly the way he is always saying it should be to make HIM happy, you know damn well, he would find something else to whine about.

Thomas, as they say out West, he would complain if they hung him with a new rope.

Now that I see that old saying in print, I see how dumb it really is.

I would hardly let a newspaper columnist define what a religion's mission is. I'm tired of conservatives who are totally obsessed with gay people. I realize the African bishops pine for the good old days when gay people were burned at the stake, or were used as part of the pyre to burn witches (hence the term "faggot"), but I for one am glad that the Episcopal Church would rather rely on a person's character than such trivialities as sexual orientation.
Has Mr. Stuckey actually talked to Gene Robinson or a gay or lesbian priest?

"God chooses to bless America," while defining sin. Ah! Such idiocy overwhelms me; however, I used to think the same except the pope defined sin for me: Venial, Cardinal, and Mortal; the pope's holy trinity of unholy. Harken unto counsel, Starky, planet earth is not flat.

Deicide Corner: “There are a score of great religions in the world. . . and each is a mighty fortress of graft.” -- Upton Sinclair's Magazine

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