It's Finished (for now)

Well after three days of talks and another couple spent shopping engaging in high-level dialogue and fellowship, the members of the GAFCON Primates Council and their coterie of impressively sycophantic laymen have gone home – or at least they’ve gone to somebody’s home. Hopefully it isn’t any of your homes, my dearly beloved sinners.

Naturally they managed to accomplish a tremendous amount during the course of this recent little junket. News is thin on the ground, but little George Conger tells us that they’ve “endorsed” the formation of little Bobby Duncan’s ACNA sect-pretending-to-be-a-province, and that they’re less than enthusiastic about the proposed Anglican Covenant.

Now I know that the David Virtues of our Communion never guessed GAFCON’s biggest monkeys would feel this way about either issue, and are currently finding both of these conclusions a wonderful surprise, but those of us who haven’t neglected to take our medication on the grounds that it “was probably developed by sodomites and people who don’t believe Noah’s Ark has been found on a mountain in Turkey” can’t help thinking that pretty much anyone could have predicted the Council’s findings for a fraction of what this show cost. And with as much smoke and as many mirrors as Big Pete and the lads used, little David, Matt, George and all the rest of them would be just as excited by the "startling" pronouncement.

Next thing you know the usual suspects will be breathlessly posting blogs with headings like “Pope endorses Roman Catholicism!”, “Mormon boy feels guilty about Masturbation!”, and “Scientologist pays $$$ for worthless course!” Although given that I’ve just finished reading a charming thread at Viagraville in which one of the faithful (#95 – “Katherine”) emphatically insists “they HAVE (the prisoners) been treated humanely at Guantanamo” I’m beginning to suspect that point might have been have passed long ago.

I’m Father Christian and I teach the Bible.