Episcopal Presiding Bishop, A Former Oceanographer, Makes Religious Case Against

[Ptarmigan]

Episcopal Presiding Bishop, A Former Oceanographer, Makes Religious Case Against Climate Denial
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/24/3638185/episcopal-church-head-denying-climate-change-immoral/

One of the most powerful women in American Christianity is condemning the path of the climate denier.

In an interview with the Guardian published Tuesday, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said people who reject climate science are turning their backs on one of God’s most generous gifts: knowledge.

“Episcopalians understand the life of the mind is a gift of God and to deny the best of current knowledge is not using the gifts God has given you,” she said. “I think it is a very blind position.”

Now, it is a religious issue with the Episcopalians. A church that is way on the left field. 

[obumazombie]

Episcopal Presiding Bishop, A Former Oceanographer, Makes Religious Case Against Climate Denial
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/24/3638185/episcopal-church-head-denying-climate-change-immoral/

Now, it is a religious issue with the Episcopalians. A church that is way on the left field. 

If the intent was to further remove their church from the spiritual realm and into the political realm, mission accomplished.

[FlaGator]

Bishop Shori is a heretic and doesn't know anything about the Bible. Instead of studying the book that she is supposed to understand, she has spent time and millions of dollars suing parishes and dioceses that have the gall to believe the property they paid for actually belongs to them and not her.

[SVPete]

With the same thing happening with the United Methodists, United Church of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and Presbyterian Church in America, theological liberals obviously are true-believers of whatever it is they believe. They're obviously driving (or have driven, in the case of the UCC) Christian believers out of their organizations and congregations.

Schori & Co. may end up with a lot of church properties, and the believers who left may have to resort to church-in-a-box using school cafeterias, storefronts, and empty business buildings. But those church buildings will be nearly empty, and a financial burden on the Episcopal denomination. OTOH, the congregations and believers who once used those buildings will be alive in Christ and in fellowship with each other.

Buildings are tools; a church is people.

[FlaGator]

Shori and the Episcopal revisionists are getting a lot of empty church property which they have to sell in order to pay the legal bills they are racking up. She says she wants the property to preserve it for future generations of Episcopalians but the further the church moves from the Gospel fewer people attend.

She is the heretic leader of an apostate church, may God have mercy on them.

[SVPete]

Shori and the Episcopal revisionists are getting a lot of empty church property which they have to sell in order to pay the legal bills they are racking up. She says she wants the property to preserve it for future generations of Episcopalians but the further the church moves from the Gospel fewer people attend.

She is the heretic leader of an apostate church, may God have mercy on them.

The Episcopalians Church has already had to sell several such properties - and they make sure the buyer isn't the former congregation, even when it means selling at a lower price than the formers offered.

Just as a church is not a building, neither is it an organization. Like buildings, organizations are tools. Both are hard lessons to learn, though, for folks who spent entire lifetimes with a particular denomination and a particular building. Schori and her counterparts in the other denominations I mentioned have been severe pedants (pun entirely intended).