But it would be stretching the English language to call St. John’s a church, but then it does have a steeple, so that’s close enough for moderns who don’t believe much of anything.

The Washington diocese bishop Dr. Mariann Budde waxed eloquent in her denunciation of Trump. She opined that his “message [was] antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our church stands for.” Budde doesn’t seem to know that her denomination doesn’t stand for anything that might be construed as biblical. She knows that it is a dying group since she is the spiritual leader of 40,500 Episcopalians in 89 churches and 20 schools in D.C. and four Maryland counties. All have been dying for decades.

The Washington Post quoted her saying, “Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence …We need moral leadership, and he’s done everything to divide us, and has just used one of the most sacred symbols of the Judeo-Christian tradition,” leaving her “outraged.” The bishop doesn’t seem to know that the Bible is not a symbol but a Book of instructions—instructions that Episcopal leaders refuse to follow. Moreover, I didn’t realize that preachers in Episcopal Churches had powers to read minds. She’s even made a judgment as to Trump’s motives. Wow, what powers.

Maybe Mariann could use her amazing powers to determine why her denomination and St. John’s, in particular, are dying on the vine. The offerings and the pews are as empty as some of their main spokesmen and women’s heads. Wonder why she is not outraged at the viciously heretical comments made by their foremost leaders.

Famous, long-time leaders have made it clear that they do not believe the Bible is the Word of God; Christ was not virgin-born, did not die a vicarious death, nor have a victorious resurrection. Moreover, sodomy is no longer a vile sin; abortion is no longer murder; fornication is no longer evil; same-sex marriage is no longer an abomination; it is no longer a joke to suggest that a man might become a woman—even have a baby.

At least the church does in public what they teach because Bishop Budde and members of the Cathedral’s LGBT ministry group, among others in the diocese, marched in the 2016 Capital Pride March “to honor the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.” Hand me a barf bag.

The darling of the Episcopal Church for many years has been John Shelby Spong, who is a theologically corrupt, professed believer. However, he doesn’t believe in much since he is quick to tell anyone who will listen that the “virgin birth…makes Christ’s divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible” or “The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.” Moreover, to no one’s surprise, he does not believe in the physical resurrection of Christ. Therefore, the most prominent Episcopalian is not a believer.

Why was Spong not found guilty of heresy and removed from the Episcopal denomination? But then, they did put up with Bishop Pike, a long time cultist, who was thrice married, fornicated with his secretary, and died in the Israeli desert while on his honeymoon. Lay Episcopalians must be very broadminded.

How can ordained unbelievers be so unprincipled, so unreasonable, so unethical as to accept generous salaries, benefits, and retirement income from a religious institution and ridicule the Bible upon which those groups are supposed to be founded?

Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida Greg Brewer tweeted: “This is blasphemy in real time.” No, what major leaders in the denomination are teaching is blasphemy, but evidently, Greg can’t get his knickers twisted about such things.

Former Dean the Very Rev. Gary R. Hall retired said, ‘No sex before marriage is not realistic.’ He even opened the cathedral for homosexual nuptials! He really jumped into a cauldron of confusion when he opined, ‘It is not only just okay to be gay, straight, bisexual, or transgendered. It is good to be that way because that is the way God has made you.’” Rev. Hall has no knowledge that he has no knowledge, and someone who is unaware that he is unaware is pathetic.

The Rev. Canon Gina Campbell, a divorced female priest, was hired as Canon Precentor of the National Cathedral in September of 2013. In November of 2014, she invited 100 Muslims to say their Friday prayers at the National Cathedral! She said: “This needs to be a world in which all are free to believe and practice and in which we avoid bigotry, Islamophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Christianity and to embrace our humanity and to embrace faith.”

Obviously, the teaching of the National Cathedral is the antithesis to Christ and the Bible when it embraces a vile, vicious, volatile terrorist group like extremist Islam.

Ms. Campbell even had all the crucifixes covered and closed the church to Christian worshipers for four hours. She had armed guards at the church doors to exclude Christians who might want to attend. She even removed the pews so the Muslims would not be offended. She wanted the Muslims to pretend to be in a mosque where they sit and kneel on the floor. When she welcomed the Muslims, she said, “Salaam, shalom, peace, you are all so very welcome here….Let us stretch our hearts and let us seek to deepen mercy for we worship the same God.”

Maybe she worships that god, but I don’t!

The Muslim cleric, with no attempt at being sensitive to the location and the circumstances, responded, “God has no son, that Jesus Christ cannot be his son, and that there is no god like Allah.” It is a wonder the massive cathedral did not fall on his head. Does any sane person think Ms. Campbell will receive a similar invitation to do her thing at the local mosque? Especially if she tells the truth about Islam!

Not even if pigs learn to fly in formation and do backward summersaults over the White House.

One headline tells the story of what’s happening: “Episcopalians Continue Bleeding Members, Attendance at Alarming Rate.” However, it seems the denominational bigwigs haven’t connected the dots. Members are fleeing their churches as if their hair is on fire because of the outrageous, anti-biblical, and leftist positions taken by the leadership.

The denomination’s website says nothing about reaching people for Christ with the Gospel. Conversely, it does boast about their activity on Ash Wednesday of going to the streets, no not with Gospel literature, but to put ashes on the foreheads of people! However, there is no, absolutely no biblical foundation for such a church activity.

There is no Bible support for most of what is going on in mainline denominations: a church hierarchy, massive salaries, special clerical vestments, relics, icons, and involvement in leftist political causes.

Church leaders should not need consistency forced upon them. Their character should require it.

Episcopal clergy make up a nest of vipers far more dangerous than rattlesnakes on the floor of a nursery. At least rattlesnakes, by nature, warn potential victims of danger. False prophets do not.

It might be rude or even crude for me to remind my readers that the Episcopal Church was the major opponent of our War for Independence. More than half of their Colonial ministers left their pulpits in disagreement with our demand for a break with England.

But what can you expect of a church denomination founded by a lustful (he had many mistresses), glutinous King Henry VIII who it was said had “six wives he was wedded. One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded.” He broke with the Roman Catholic Church because the Pope refused to give him a divorce from Catherine so he could marry Anne Boleyn.

Not the best reason to start a church group, but when there is no commitment to the authority of the Bible, any reason will do. Maybe Henry wanted to break with the Roman Catholic Church because he failed Latin and would rather be known as a wife-killer, fornicator, and liar than known for being ignorant.

I would rather be known for being ignorant.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

Sardis was an ancient city in modern Turkey, capital of Lydia and the first city in that part of the world. The city was fabulous, famous, and flourishing, and the church is said to be the result of the Apostle John’s ministry. Christ said that he knew their works; they had a good reputation but it was empty and dead. The Sardis church continued to function as it had since its illustrious beginning but it had long been dead, not unlike most churches today.

Christ warned the church to repent or He would remove them. They didn’t and He did. The church has been long gone and the city is a wasteland today. That is what is going on in many mainline denominations, especially the Episcopal denomination of which the Washington National Cathedral is a member.

The Episcopal denomination’s website does not reveal the Gospel of Christ but it does endorse the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, LGBT propaganda, liberation theology, social justice, earth worship, and racial reconciliation! Such radical views are reflected in the Episcopal News Service report that the R. E. Lee Memorial Church in Lexington, Virginia, where Robert E. Lee once served as senior warden will no longer honor the Confederate general in its name. Church officials admitted that the decision has been costly as members, weary of the racial politics, have fled the church.

But, it gets worse at Christ Church of Alexandria, Virginia where George Washington worshipped. He has been repudiated by the removal of a plaque dedicated to his memory. Whistleblower magazine reported that Washington purchased pew number five when the church began in 1773 but it seems the church and the denomination have moved on from Washington’s time. They don’t have time for the old fashioned Gospel of Christ that changes men and determines destiny but plenty of time for Mother Earth, LGBT, liberation theology, racial politics, and other left wing nonsense.

Proving how far left the church is, according to the Whistleblower, one of the four female pastors, former actress Ann Gillespie, closed a sermon with a perverse version of the Apostle’s Creed: “I believe in God, our Mother Bear, source of all being,” and refers to the Virgin Mary as “the bad-a** womanist liberation theologian, Mary.” Ann should have stayed in the movie business. I don’t know about her acting ability but she has a Hollywood mouth and mind.

The recent action by the Episcopal denomination and the National Cathedral was totally apostate and totally unnecessary, as if they have a death wish. The church decided to adopt neutral pronouns for God which is defiant, dangerous, and dumb. God is vigilant about His name. When an Old Testament copyist was copying the Scripture, he would sit in full Jewish dress after washing his body carefully. Then he would carefully wipe his pen before writing the word God and take another bath before writing Jehovah. Even if his king addressed him, he would not respond because of his sacred work.

Obviously, the Episcopalians do not believe that God’s name is important, let alone sacred. That may be one of the most dangerous and wicked things the church and denomination have done.

The second decision of the church was to embrace transgenderism which is one of the most outrageous decisions man has made since the beginning of time. A man can call himself a woman but nothing has changed except in his twisted mind. All he has to do is look down and see that he is still a he. Even if he finds a quack surgeon to chop off some body parts, he is still a man as is evidenced by every gene in his body.

As is demonstrated by Bruce Jenner, no amount of surgery or cosmetics can conceal the broad shoulders, large knuckles, deep voice, and prominent Adam’s apple. Bruce was a handsome man but a homely woman. He and other confused people are simply adults playing a pretend game–a game that is deadly. However, from the beginning of his hallucinations, the media has been in a rush to gush over his/her bravery and courage which says as much about them as it does him/her.

Furthermore, all those who teach children that they can be a different gender by declaring it are doing irreparable harm to those children. I believe in a few years, when society has a seizure of common sense, such people will be charged with child abuse. That would include religious people who, of all people, should know better than to be carried about by every fad that comes down the pike. Those silly but dangerous fads always seem to come from Progressiveville.

The third disastrous decision made by the church is their demand for open borders! Most people would think that a church would demand obedience to law and order rather than dissidence, disobedience and disorder. A nation without borders is not a nation, but then that’s what the leftists want–a nation with no restraints, no rules, no regulations.

Open border fanatics tell us that the U.S. had open borders from its inception until 1882. However, that is not the whole story because in America’s early days, the western frontier was Ohio! Much of America was unexplored, uninhabited, and undeveloped. We needed farmers, carpenters, preachers, teachers, smiths, merchants, salesmen, trappers, and cobblers who came and fell in love with their new nation, learned English, and melted into the pot. But the pot is not melting today. It is now a salad bowl where many different peoples do their own thing and have no interest in the general welfare. They don’t melt but they do sit, sour, and soak up the freebies.

American citizens will hold elected officials responsible for terrorism resulting from their inaction, ineptitude, or incompetence relating to border security. As the numbers grow, the crimes accelerate, and the costs escalate with devastating results.

The horrendous costs will be laid at the feet of cowardly politicians and uninformed or misinformed religious leaders who think they are being broadminded as they demand open borders and amnesty for all.

Since the Episcopal Churches have gone so far off the rails, it is logical that they often do ridiculous things that bring them into even more disrepute. They boast about hosting a “blessing of the animals” and I have looked long and hard and can find no scriptural basis for that silly activity. There is no proof that dogs and animals go to Heaven but it seems some churches are going to the dogs.

Obviously, the Episcopal denomination is dead and should be buried. God will take care of that.

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