Flashback: What if Screwtape Were at General Convention?
Say—how’d we miss posting this little essay, snuck into the Center Aisle publication, normally known for its affectations of “moderation”? The entire thing is hilarious—strikes just the right note—but just as amusing are two comments from revisionist activists, one of whom has apparently never read Screwtape Letters and so doesn’t understand the use of the word “vermin” and the other who assures us that General Convention is made up of “the best minds in our church,” which, if true, certainly explains its cataclysmic decline.
At any rate, check out Screwtape’s little missive to General Convention, from which the below is excerpted:
Should calls for reform gain force, all is not lost. Encourage your patients to see every attempt to change Church structure as limits on the Church’s ministries, not on their personal power or agenda. Our patients lack the ability to see the irony in calling for radical changes to the society around them, while resisting so inflexibly the call to reform the one institution that they in fact control.
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“If”????
He may not have found it necessary to attend since all went according to plan, but I suspect he was there, especially after reading one of the comments to the piece.
[1] Posted by Undergroundpewster on 8-27-2012 at 09:27 AM · [top]
How did you all miss this little gem????? Ummmm, perhaps because no one reads my comments here ? I think I posted this twice. Also, I posted this little gem over at my own blog.
[2] Posted by SC blu cat lady on 8-27-2012 at 01:09 PM · [top]
Pewster, One of your own DioUSC deputies was one of the authors of this wonderful piece. Mr. Belton Ziegler was a deputy to GC 2012 and I believe he still is the chancellor for the Dio USC.
A delightful little piece.
[3] Posted by SC blu cat lady on 8-27-2012 at 01:11 PM · [top]
Hmmmmm. Perhaps Blogger is having a bad day but the link does not go to that particular post so here is the link to the blog. This post is the second one so just scroll down.
[4] Posted by SC blu cat lady on 8-27-2012 at 01:15 PM · [top]
Sarah Hey:
Because you aren’t noted for any “affectations of moderation” of your own. Let’s keep it that way.
But do feel free to snoop around the internet. It’s an amusing piece and thanks for bringing it to our attention.
[5] Posted by episcopalienated on 8-27-2012 at 01:44 PM · [top]
#3 SC blu cat lady,
Belton is welcome to step out of the center of the aisle whenever he is ready.
[6] Posted by Undergroundpewster on 8-27-2012 at 01:48 PM · [top]
Ms. Fox does not seem to be acquainted with this CS Lewis classic. Instead, she seems to be Exhibit A.
[7] Posted by Cindy T. in TX on 8-28-2012 at 07:41 AM · [top]
Agreed Cindy. Ms. Fox has definitely imbibed of the kool aid so beloved in TEC. The commenter who did get it was Lydia Evans - a deputy from the Diocese of SC.
[8] Posted by SC blu cat lady on 8-28-2012 at 07:47 AM · [top]
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