Great, now I am a bad steward!!!
You can't make this stuff up. The new head of the Episcopal Church USA has made herself clear (in a New York Times interview). The reason why there are so few episcopalians these days is because their educated, stewards of the Earth and all around better people than us dirty stupid Catholics, Mormons, and Evangelicals. If you aren't registered to NYT I'll just cut and paste part of the interview.
Q. How many members of the Episcopal Church are there in this country?
A. About 2.2 million. It used to be larger percentagewise, but Episcopalians tend to be better-educated and tend to reproduce at lower rates than some other denominations. Roman Catholics and Mormons both have theological reasons for producing lots of children.
Q. Episcopalians aren’t interested in replenishing their ranks by having children?
A. No. It’s probably the opposite. We encourage people to pay attention to the stewardship of the earth and not use more than their portion.
Q. How many members of the Episcopal Church are there in this country?
A. About 2.2 million. It used to be larger percentagewise, but Episcopalians tend to be better-educated and tend to reproduce at lower rates than some other denominations. Roman Catholics and Mormons both have theological reasons for producing lots of children.
Q. Episcopalians aren’t interested in replenishing their ranks by having children?
A. No. It’s probably the opposite. We encourage people to pay attention to the stewardship of the earth and not use more than their portion.
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Oh those silly Episcopals. I do have hopes that this woman election will split the Anglican Communion into liberal and conservative churches. If this happened, there could be some hopee in the future of a reconciliation betweeen the Catholic Church and the more conservative elements of the Anglican Communion.
Dude, that's already happened, several times over...there's a new traditional Anglican group formed every time the Episcopal Church takes another blithe leap closer to Unitarianism. But the thing is, groups that formed by splitting from a larger and less-hardcore group will almost never turn around and join a different big mainstream group. Pretty much, split-offs tend to just keep on splitting. As witness the myriad radTrad and Russian Orthodox Way-Outside-Russa groups -- they divide like just shrill little amoebae.
haha. "Shrill Amoebae". I like it.
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