Southern Ohio: Petition to Standing Committee on Buddhist Bishop Available to Sign

Friday, February 27, 2009 • 8:16 am

The Rev. Jeff Queen, Rector of All Saints’, Portsmouth has the petition at his site. If you’re in the diocese of Southern Ohio and you’d like to add your name to the petition, please head over there and follow the simple protocol of leaving your name, address and parish in the comments. Please feel free to comment on the petition here, but do not leave your signature here; leave them at The Country Parson.

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Quicker than I thought. It only took two posts before someone chimed in with the ” Who are we to say no if that’s who they want” response. I think we’ve been there, done that.

...we should respect the decision of those who know him best - the people of Northern Michigan.

[1] Posted by john1 on 02-27-2009 at 09:13 AM • top

John1—I think the comment you reference must be a clever joke. It’s too full of left wing cliches to be for real. It’s got to be one of those “illustrating the absurd by being absurd” kind of things.

[2] Posted by Nasty, Brutish & Short on 02-27-2009 at 09:26 AM • top

Greg, FWIW, I think it would be revealing to post here and at the post on AC’s blog Mr. Forrester’s defense of his “election” and his Buddhist practice that you deleted when Da-veed pasted it as a comment. It is this flimsy defense to which I am responding with this cross-post of my comment on vicarsblog.blogspot:

As an interested observer outside the diocese, I notice in Mr. Forrester’s defense of his “election” a complete lack of reference to or rationale for his removal of the Creeds and any acknowledgement of Substitutionary Atonement for salvation from any services he has led, as well as omitting any mention of the universalist theology he teaches that flows naturally from the 2 points mentioned.

St. Paul, like Mr. Forrester, exhorts us to “Examine yourselves”, which Forrester seems to equivocate with Paul’s exhortation. But Zen meditation has us examine ourselves to find that “tat tvam asi”, “I am that”, which is to identify ourselves as one with all being and creation, with no God in the picture, except perhaps ourselves. St. Paul says “Examine yourselves, to see whether you be in the faith”, which he describes unequivocally as faith in Jesus as the only Saviour for our sins, of whom we are all in mortal need.

Two different paths.
Two different, mutually exclusive, irreconcilable faiths.
Abandonment of communion, not consecration as a Christian bishop.

[3] Posted by Milton on 02-27-2009 at 02:01 PM • top

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