Lots of political and media stories, so let’s jump right in… To avoid a budget crunch in Chicago, one genius recommends running red lights. Christie Todd Whitman begins the one game all politicians are good at… Cover Your Ass… Episcopalians……

In those “fondly remembered” days of the Inquisition, these two idiots would have been burned at the stake, alive, without benefit first being strangled, but only after days of scourging and torture. Lucky, only Islam MURDERS its apostates these days.

georgej on June 18, 2007 at 9:02 PM

Gee,

That sounds exciting, and like a lot of fun!

Where do I sign up? /sarcasm off /humor off.

William

Next on the Episcopalian agenda: Finding a priest who’s Christian, Muslim, gay, straight, Zoroastrian, Hindu and a practicioner of transcendental meditation while claiming to channel Vanuatu, a sixth-century alien who lived on Saturn (but was actually an illegal immigrant from the planet Xanadu). Won’t that be exciting too!

Yes, that would be exciting, but for good measure perhaps there should be sacrifices of poodles to Zorpan the Space God as well.

At this rate the President of Iran should be the new Episcopalian Pope as that church (loosely called) fully embraces apostasy.

This silly twit and her fecal-instead-of-gray-matter idiot boss, the so-called “Rt. Rev.” Vincent Warner cannot be considered to be Christians any more.

In those “fondly remembered” days of the Inquisition, these two idiots would have been burned at the stake, alive, without benefit first being strangled, but only after days of scourging and torture. Lucky, only Islam MURDERS its apostates these days.

Being Muslim has given her insights into Christianity, she said. For instance, because Islam regards Jesus as human, not divine, it reinforces for her that “we can be like Jesus. There are no excuses.”

If she believes that Jesus was not not divine, then she’s not a Christian. Strong delusion, indeed.

Black Female Appostate

This ‘tard is black, too? Just great. Almost makes me want to turn in my sistah card.

No, Bryan is right Vanuatu was from the sixth century, Velsigal was from the fifth.

Troy Rasmussen on June 18, 2007 at 7:03 PM

Actually Vanuata is from the 21st century and the blog MyDD.

She does both, she says, because she’s Christian and Muslim.

That must make for an exiting week. On Fridays Jesus was a prophet who didn’t really die on the cross but played a first class switch-a-roo thus avoiding the cross. Saturdays must be this nitwit’s day off. Come Sunday Jesus is the Son of God who’s death on the cross and subsiquent resurrection frees mankind from all sin for all time if they’ll accept it. Riiiiight… Talk about your cognititve dissonance!

C’mon Bryan, everyone knows Vanuatu was from the 5th century…

Dunno.

Bad Candy on June 18, 2007 at 2:52 PM

No, Bryan is right Vanuatu was from the sixth century, Velsigal was from the fifth.

Well, she’s just following in the footsteps of Prince Charles…

Steve LLamabutcher on June 18, 2007 at 3:25 PM

Shouldn’t that Prince Charles – who is to be ‘Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith’?

This is a classic example of doublethink – the belief of two completely contradictory beliefs at the same time.

Islam (and the Islamic ‘god’) is nothing like the christian God – they are opposites. Where Jesus said ‘Love your enemy’ Mo says ‘Kill your enemy and do not make friends with them’. Christianity is based on Salvation and love (from/of God) while Islam is based on condemnation, fear, and hatred (of/from Allah). Christians do things for their love of God while Muslims do things for fear of Allah and/or hatred of non-muslims.

I wonder what Redding’s bishop, the Rt. Rev. Vincent Warner, would say if one of his priests announced an intention to convert to Judaism – not that a sincere Jewish convert would ever consider remaining a Christian clergy.

I’ve known a few former Christian clergy who have become Jews, including Asher Wade (Methodist), Amos Wittenberg (Mennonite), and John David Scalamonti (Catholic). All of them realized that they had no future in their churches and left their pulpits. While Redding is embraced by her church, Asher Wade’s experience is about what I’d expect of a liberal protestant denomination today, particularly because Wade lives in Jerusalem and is an Israeli citizen.

Born in Danville, Virginia (May 31, 1949) as Wallace Spencer Wade, Rabbi Wade studied at several liberal arts colleges and graduated Averett College with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy (June, 1971).

Afterwards, he traveled to Scotland, where he earned a Master’s degree in philosophical theology at New College, Edinburgh University (June, 1974).

Thereafter, he took a sabbatical from university studies and moved to Berlin, Germany (Oct., 1974) where he attended the “Goethe Institut” for language and cultural studies. While in Berlin, he also did an internship as an adolescent & marriage counselor at the U.S. Army chaplaincy center.

After his stay in Berlin, he moved to northern Germany and enrolled at the University of Hamburg (March, 1975) where he worked toward his first doctorate in the field of Metaphysics and Special Theory of Relativity. Nearing completion of his dissertation, Rabbi Wade was offered a post-doctoral teaching fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge University in England.

Rabbi Wade is also a convert to Judaism. His background is that of a religious Christian. While in Hamburg, he was ordained a pastor in the Methodist Church (Aug., 1975). For three & a half years during his doctoral studies, he was employed as a minister of an English speaking Protestant congregation (June, 1976 to Dec., 1979). During this time, he met his wife (Jan., 1978) whose father and grandfather were very pious Lutheran German pastors.

Several months after their marriage (Sept. 15, 1978), he and his wife began to investigate Judaism (Sunday, Nov. 5, 1978 – on the 40th anniversary of Kristallnacht). It took about a year and a half for both of them to reach the conclusion that Torah Judaism fulfilled all the intellectual, academic, spiritual and emotional truths for which they had been searching. After withdrawing themselves from the church and leaving the ministry, both husband and wife began their conversion procedure which took three & a half years and finally culminated with them traveling to Frankfurt-am-Main and converting to Orthodox Judaism (May, 1983).

During their conversion process, Rabbi Wade suffered the hardship of not being allowed to finish his first doctorate at the hands of his supervising professor, who, it turned out, had been a chaplain in one of Hitler’s tank divisions which rolled into Poland during World War II (and pastor of the biggest cathedral in Hamburg). He and his wife nevertheless stayed on in Hamburg as he pursued a second doctorate on Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and the Orthodox-Reform Schism. More than two years later, with controversy growing about his Jewish status, he withdrew from the university and together with his wife moved to the United States (Aug., 1983).

Somehow I get the feeling that the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and The Tooth Fairy are off in the distance snickering at us stupid “realists”:…

Well, every journey starts with one step….there it is…

I have heard that St. Marks is losing its congregation as it slides towards apostacy. I can’t imagine a dual muslim/christian priest will help that situation.