Prayer Circles

I found this article to be a keen and witty analysis of the future for ememies of the Church.

some exerpts:
....you open the paper one fine morning to find the Episcopal Church in Washington, DC has decided to have a fawning fete for Mohammed Khatami, the former president of Iran, at the National Cathedral. 

.......What can account for this bizarre and fashionable tendency of religious liberals to bow, scrape and crawl before a Foaming Bronze Age Islamic Thug?  After all, we're talking about an organization that routinely produces battalions of fainting Victorian Lady Novelists who dissolve in tears and declare they cannot breathe in the presence of those who suggest gay marriage is not exactly what the Good Lord had in mind.  We're talking about people who don't see what the problem is if, by "God", you mean "Mother Ocean" or "My Personal Truth of the Moment".  How is it that these people, who act as though fellow Episcopalians — those who reject homosexual practice and abortion and who say "Jesus is Lord" — are something that just crawled out of the sewer, will suddenly fall all over themselves to hang on the words of a man who enthusiastically endorses hanging homosexuals and imposing the chador on every woman in the world?  How is it that people who hyperventilate about Dr. James Dobson's imminent imposition of theocracy on the United States swoon with admiration of a man who actually ruled a theocracy on the cutting edge of 9th Century thought?

...... I am inclined to think that what took place during the First Coming will take place again as we approach the Second.  Weird and unexpected alliances that make no sense except that irreconcilable parties put aside their differences in order to attack Christ and his Church.  It should be interesting!  Perhaps one of the consolations of the martyrs will be to laugh at how their persecutors make self-contradictory fools of themselves.  We shall see.

JJ,

Yes yes, but what about the the principle of the separation of Magisterium & Blogisterium?

Well you "turn the other cheek" folk had best be making your own strange alliance with people like me, because it will be those of us who shun your backward ways that will wind up enabling you to keep your heads connected to your shoulders.

And by "backward ways" I am referring to that turn the other cheek and resist not the evil doer "love they neighbor (and every living human being is your neighbor) no matter how vile they are" silliness.

Come now, Sir Cherubingo, surely you have an appreciation for the such inventive turns of phrase such as:

"The Christian world has to talk to the Muslim world sooner or later or we will be sharing a burnt cinder for a planet. But this was not a conversation (in no small part because the Episcopal Church has nothing to say). This was a groveling, lickspittle, giggling schoolgirl, spaniel-like, isn't-he-just-a-dreamboat? celebration of a man who has headed one of the most brutal Islamic regimes on the planet. And he was wined, cheesed and doted on by damp-handed, balding men and wealthy women in power suits who support NARAL, react to the words "Religious Right" like salted slugs, and pray for the day when Hillary Clinton can lead our nation back to a land flowing with condoms and NOW membership fund drives. "

Oh.. I love the "damp-handed balding men".... sweet!

"lickspittle" and "spanial-like"..... it's near Chestertonian!

You Must begrudgingly agree it is an insightful and shrewd portrayal...

Yea, verily, LTC (my favorite redneck), keep thy sword sharp, thy guns well lubricated, and the ammo fresh.

Mohammed my yet appear on our doorstep, no doubt invited by a well-meaning episcopalian....