{"id":2463,"date":"2008-09-12T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/09\/episcopaganism\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T11:42:00","slug":"episcopaganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/09\/episcopaganism.html","title":{"rendered":"Episcopaganism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SMqPva5nTDI\/AAAAAAAAB0o\/y0d6GBvAMxk\/s1600-h\/witch.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SMqPva5nTDI\/AAAAAAAAB0o\/y0d6GBvAMxk\/s320\/witch.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/jonathanwynnejones\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/has_the_church_become_too_feminine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this article <\/a>from the <em>Daily Telegraph <\/em>to learn how Wicca is not only attracting more and more women, but how feminism in the \u2018Christian\u2019 Protestant Churches is gradually changing the theology from Christianity to open paganism.\n<p>Those of us who were opposed to women priests in the Anglican church years ago predicted that it would eventually lead to paganism. I can remember referring to women priests as \u2018priestesses\u2019 only to have the proponents say, \u201cOh you mustn\u2019t call us \u2018priestess\u2019!\u201d \u201cWhy not?\u201d \u201cBecause it sounds so pagan.\u201d \u201cBut it is pagan.Let\u2019s call a spade a spade.\u201d At that point lady priest goes off in a huff.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s all coming out in the open now, and lest you think the reporter is picking up an extreme example from the lunatic fringe, he quotes from Episcopal Bishop Kate Shori\u2019s opening address referring to the Mother Goddess. I can tell you that when I was an Anglican priest twenty years ago even then they were changing the liturgy every chance they got to remove references to God as Father, Jesus as Son and infiltrating references to \u2018Mother God\u2019, creating new feminist canticles and \u2018psalms\u2019, and even trying to put readings from the \u2018gospel\u2019 of Mary Magdalene into the lectionary.<\/p>\n<p>Why should the open paganism of casting spells and having a \u2018Eucharist\u2019 of milk and raisin cake (as per the article) surprise anyone? Let\u2019s be honest. It\u2019s witchcraft, and to use a current turn of phrase, \u201cYou can put lipstick on a witch, but she\u2019s still a witch.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this article from the Daily Telegraph to learn how Wicca is not only attracting more and more women, but how feminism in the \u2018Christian\u2019 Protestant Churches is gradually changing the theology from Christianity to open paganism. 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