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2006-06-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

Our Mother Jesus . . . an Episcopal sermon

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Posted by Fred 2006-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation and you and I are His children. If were going to keep on growing into Christ images for the world around us, were going to have to give up fear.

What does that statement have to do with: Jesus Christ? The Bible? Christianity?

Incredible how Satan has hijacked the Episcopal Church.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-06-22 01:13|| 2006-06-22 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I really think we need to report these people to the US Disease Control Center. These people MUST have some form of rabies. Appears like they have been bitten by Moonbats.

Posted by Gromosh Elminegum5705 2006-06-22 01:34|| 2006-06-22 01:34|| Front Page Top

#3 A virulent outbreak of Mad Episcopalian Disease - definitely a job for the Center for Disease Control. Have they done the Jesus Was Gay meme yet?

As for Satan, he is too busy laughing is firey red ass off.

Posted by SteveS 2006-06-22 01:59|| 2006-06-22 01:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Gay bishops, rewriting the classic Trinity, and now Jesus is our "Mother"?

Why don't they just formally declare themselves Unitarians and get it over with?

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-06-22 04:37|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-22 04:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I can't imagine that even Unitarians would get Jesus' sex that wrong. The ones I know are terribly, earnestly concerned with getting it all right.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-22 05:26|| 2006-06-22 05:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Our "Mother" Jesus? Has Dan Brown heard about this? Kinda puts some reverse English on the old DaVinci Code, no?

This is what happens when you shut down all the asylums....you get a proliferation of street winos, druggies and Episcopal preachers.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-06-22 08:52|| 2006-06-22 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 They must truly be Whiskeypaleons.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-06-22 09:03|| 2006-06-22 09:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Holy crap, WTF does "mother Jesus" mean? I don't care how any organized religion conducts it's ceremonies but damn, last time I checked Jesus wasn't gender confused.

*Side note - As for the Unitarians - you actually are referring to those Americans & Canadians who call themselves "Universalist Unitarians" - a far cry different then old school Unitarians. The early Unitarian church included folks like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Newton, Susan B. Anthony and Charles Dickens. They did not believe in the classical trinity as per the council of Nicea in 325 a.d. - the early Unitarians said the trinity was not in the bible. The early Unitarians were/are actually very close to Deists. Anyways, their church self destructed in the 1930s from a schism between humanists and theists thus mutating into it's present form as the "Universalist Unitarian Church" - at least on our side of the pond. This is the whole liberal touchy feely nothing to do w/God anymore sect, way far beyond the debate of tritinerian vs. unitarian thought wrt literal scripture interpretation. IIRC there are still old school Unitarian churches in eastern europe that have no connection to the UU's in the states.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-06-22 10:02|| 2006-06-22 10:02|| Front Page Top

#9 See, I told you it was coming. Here's the payoff when you completely discard the rules (Bible, and centuries of tradition, theology and scholarship) - you lose all grasp of reality. Now they can't even get the gender of Christ right.

They have become completely unmoored.

An good point BH6 - Call them UU's - they are real nutbags in that group, nothing at all to do with the Unitarians, who have a theological beef with the Trinity, but not with God, etc.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-06-22 10:53|| 2006-06-22 10:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Myself, I am waiting for the Manichaens to make a comeback. THERE is a sect you can sink your philosophical teeth into...

Posted by borgboy 2006-06-22 12:13|| 2006-06-22 12:13|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm very confused... Jesus, a mother?... But I thought he was an Archon? Was I somehow misled by theses nice gnostic guys?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-22 12:35|| 2006-06-22 12:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks, Broadhead & Oldspook, my bad! I forgot to type in "Universalist". That will teach me to post a reply before the sun comes up...
;)

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-06-22 12:51|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-22 12:51|| Front Page Top

#13 first "Mother Sheehan", now "Mother Jesus". ...next? "Mother Hillary"?

Gaaaaaccckkkk!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-22 14:01|| 2006-06-22 14:01|| Front Page Top

#14 There's a feminist group within the Episcopal Church - officially supported and sanctioned - that was working on an "alternate liturgy" to celebrate the "divine feminine." Their first draft was a direct importation of a rite (words and motions) to the goddess Brigid (IIRC). Subsequent drafts made the origins less obvious, but they still end it with the words "blessed be."

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-06-22 17:48|| 2006-06-22 17:48|| Front Page Top

#15 The Episcopalians have now officially stepped across the bounds and stopped being a "Christian" church. They are embracing things which are fundamentally non-Christian and even anti-Christian.

There is no retreat from such heresy. They have allied themselves with Satan himself.

Rev FOTSGreg, PhD,DD (yeah, it's from the ULC, but I grew up Lutheran and still believe)

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-06-22 19:08|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-06-22 19:08|| Front Page Top

#16 I know we shouldn't swear - this being a family blog and all - but these clowns give a whole new meaning to the term "FUCKING IDIOTS."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-06-22 19:09|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html ]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html ] 2006-06-22 19:09|| Front Page Top

#17 They just made themselves a gay church. It's a free country. Calling themselves Christians is as silly as Osama bin Laden calling himself a Christian.

To be a Christian - you have to follow Christ's teachings. I'm not a free market economist if I teach communism - no matter what I label it.

What's sad about it is that many people - including my family donated their hard earned money to acquire those buildings and bibles and these people basically embezzeled it to use for another purpose.

Posted by 2b 2006-06-22 19:30|| 2006-06-22 19:30|| Front Page Top

#18 X - you mean their using St. Brigid from Ireland? As the story goes she did have pagan origins but converted to christianity later on. Most of the early Irish clergy did as well - starting about 100 years or so after Nicea took place.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-06-22 20:19|| 2006-06-22 20:19|| Front Page Top

#19 I can see a sign on that church about a year from now:

The First United Pagan Episcopal Church of San Francisco.

Reverend-Mistress Silver Leaf Moonbeam Smith (presiding)

Services: Sundays at 11:00 and also whenever the new moon is. Please bring your goat-leggings and a dish to pass at our upcoming Beltane festival! Yours in the Goddess - Rev-Mis Smith

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-06-22 20:25|| 2006-06-22 20:25|| Front Page Top

#20 It's just the Beast gathering strength. Stay aware, well-armed and supplied.

Submit to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.

Admit that, sadly, our beloved USA is in decline because we won't do what is nesessary to win over evil. That said, please protect your loved ones and yourselves as we incrementally get sucked back to the Dark Ages. Lock and Load!

Posted by as">as 2006-06-22 21:29|| 2006-06-22 21:29|| Front Page Top

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