tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224671339660011652.post7483305262596326375..comments2023-10-18T01:26:10.564-07:00Comments on GAFCON: Bananas don’t grow on trees (It Ain’t So Pt. 3).The Rev. Dr. Christian Trollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12036555999630488760noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224671339660011652.post-20619100535888343942009-05-17T21:13:00.000-07:002009-05-17T21:13:00.000-07:00"the people who gave him his job didn't do so in o..."the people who gave him his job didn't do so in order to be reduced to the same status as everyone else."<br /><br />From your keyboard to God's monitor! Yes indeed. <br /><br />At New Orleans, he showed up to instruct our HoB on how to be bishops! He actually had missed the little point that no one here (except Mr. Duncan and Mr. Mimms) wants English episcopate over-lords. Actually to be fair, they don't want to live <I>under</I> it, they want to <I>operate</I> the house of lords episcopate.<br /><br /> <br /><br />I suppose that the bigger item is the silly province idea. After all what our terrorist bishops want to do to us here is what the FIF sort want to do to the CoE. Buy one: own both.<br /><br />FWIW<br />jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224671339660011652.post-79659054847985725852009-05-17T19:08:00.000-07:002009-05-17T19:08:00.000-07:00My dear man - of course there'll be storms. I also...My dear man - <I>of course</I> there'll be storms. I also predict there'll be a fortune to be made by selling umbrellas, but that doesn't mean there's any reason to think Bobby Duncan's weather-girls are still going to be around when it finally clears up again.<br /><br />The Tufti will try to bully because that's what people in big hats do. He'll try all sorts of other tactics as well, including keeping everyone talking until they fall asleep, but at the end of the day the machine that is Canterbury will follow the money, because that's ultimately all machines know how to do.<br /><br />You're quite right about ++Rowan's dislike of democracy. Partly it's because he blames people with silly ideas of equality for the death of Czar Nicholas, and still dreams of appearing at the court of St. Petersburg as a wise and holy seer from across the waters, but also because it's trait quite prevalent among British who've benefited as he has from the old-boy's network.<br /><br />Still, as I've already said, those castles, conferences and curios cost a lot to maintain, and he knows he needs TEC more than they need him - even if you'll never catch him admitting that in public. Nor can he afford for the Communion to <I>not</I> have a hierarchical framework: the people who gave him his job didn't do so in order to be reduced to the same status as everyone else.The Rev. Dr. Christian Trollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12036555999630488760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3224671339660011652.post-28849607661707091082009-05-17T14:06:00.000-07:002009-05-17T14:06:00.000-07:00Hmm two reasons actually.
First simple misunderst...Hmm two reasons actually.<br /><br />First simple misunderstanding. The Grand Tufti has been able to bully TEC from time to time and he probably thinks he can do it some more. Wrong. TEC is about fed up, and frankly its primate's membership card in the big tent is not all that important to the laity.<br /><br />The other reason is he really does not like democracies. His whole speech to the bishops can be summed up in the silly advice George III got from his mom "George BE KING." That went rather badly in 1776 but that is something they do not seem to cover in Welsh schools.<br /><br />I predict storms.<br /><br />FWIW<br />jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.com