Monday, September 17, 2007

Ephraim Radner on the Committee document Prepared for the House of Bishops Meeting

http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/5950/

[TitusOneNine] 17 Sep 2007--From here and there:

It is impossible to respond to this sad piece, except to say that is so filled with error, special (and false) pleading, misreading and misunderstanding, pretence and posturing, perversion and malice, as to defy coherent reply....

Will any one, in the days ahead, pay attention to the sorry production of these miguided bishops? I pray God that they will not.

I have always suspected that the HoB March Statement was drafted before the meeting ever took place, by people like Sauls and others. (Whether Prof. Grieb was in the loop, I don’t know; but she certainly didn’t miss a step in blending in.) The success of this strategy in March, which “framed” the outcome then rather slickly, may have over-emboldened the same group to adopt a more public pre-meeting profile. Obviously, given the embarrassing nature of the quality and content of this “report”, the strategy is proving a profound mistake on their part. It has deep-sixed any credibility that Henderson might have (if ever he would) to stand as a Primatial Vicar nominee, it has publicly nailed the character of the bishops in question to a caricature of American arrogance and “Christian” idiocy, and it has dug a hole for their cause, before the Communion, whose only fit filling is the ordure of their arguments.

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