Mr. Misanthrope

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Such as? I'm curious to hear how Episcopalians have abandoned the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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I’m not biting because I don’t believe you’re serious. Check out the Episcopal Church in America and/or the Church of England for yourself and see what they are about and promote and support. You can call it anything you want. It has very little if anything to do with Christ’s Church or the gospel.

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If you ever had any doubt that the Anglican/Episcopal church has lost its way

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I’ve never had any doubts after they corrupted their seminaries, screwed up the Prayer Book, ordained women, and homosexuals, and made them Bishops. All of that began decades ago.

Unfortunately many conservative “Episcopal” churches (like ours) that left the corrupt Episcopal Church here in America often try to distance themselves from the heretics by using Anglican instead of Episcopal.

Episcopal only refers to church government with Bishops of Dioceses in overall charge of that Diocese’s Parish Churches, Priests, and Deacons under him.

There are a lot of “Anglicans” who refuse to bend the knee to Baal and continue worship our Lord Jesus Christ and believe and preach his gospel.

Please don’t tar us with the same brush as the modern progressive Episcopal Church.

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Being off the coast of Scotland, I’d say it might depend on if the one throwing you a line is a Calvinist and has to check if you’re on the elect list or not.

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I laughed. At my peril. I married a Scots woman.

It’s interesting to note the 39 Articles, that all Anglicans once universally accepted and professed, have individual Articles relating to Free Will, the tenth, and Election, the seventeenth.

Now, they’ve been jettisoned by the mainline Anglicans in England, Scotland, Canada, America (Episcopalians), and I believe Australia.

The American Episcopal organization, no longer a Christian Church, yet modestly renaming itself The Episcopal Church, abandoned orthodox Christianity decades ago, relegating The 39 Articles to an appendix in the back of its 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

Only conservative, traditionalist, and orthodox Anglican Parishes, Provinces, or Denominations here and abroad accept them, and The Prayer Book of which they are a part, believing them to be faithful and authoritative statements of Christian doctrine and Catholic practices.

They’re decidedly Reformed.

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“Go, and sin no more”

…It’s much more bodily than just a changing of the mind. The gospel ain’t your easy believism.

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You’re right, the gospel of Jesus Christ is simple but not easy by any means.

From Oliver Stone’s Platoon -
Junior to Bunny-“Throw that yoke off. Simple - free your mind, your arse will follow.”

Pretty accurate. A radical change in the way you think about yourself, other people, life, how you perceive it, and react to it…will radically change your perspective, your beliefs, and your behavior.

So repenting rightly understood in the Christian context is a change in beliefs and behavior brought about by a radical change in thinking.

Consider this early example from St. Luke’s Acts of the Apostles .

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Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?(Action follows metanoia )

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, (Action follows metanoia)
and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized(Action follows metanoia) and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.(Action follows metanoia)

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I think I had read $80 million

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Or 800 autonomous drones.

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Ned Beatty in Network

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Maximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg

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My pick for Judgement at Nuremberg
is Montgomery Clift.

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Understand it was a hit piece on Hearst. He went after Wells and really hurt his career.

Sort of like what Frank tried to do to Puzo.

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Very much like. Solid take.

I like Kane for its importance to cinema, demonstrating Well’s genius, and it’s a good story well told. That said, I prefer The Third Man to it and Casablanca to them both.

“When you gotta go, you gotta go.”

The most common reason for failing emissions testing is, quoting the DMV:

Fails DTC-A diagnostic trouble code (DTC) is a code used to diagnose malfunctions in a vehicle. DTCs are read by a scanner that plugs directly into the OBD II port of a vehicle. There are universal DTCs and manufacturer-specific DTCs. Vehicles that fail due to Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC) do so because a situation has occurred which COULD lead to an increased level of emissions released from the vehicle. In most cases, the vehicle’s Malfunction Indicator Light (MIL) is illuminated on the dash panel. The problem may not be noticeable or affect the vehicle’s performance, but over time the situation could worsen and lead to increased inconvenience and expensive repairs. If your vehicle failed because of a DTC, the vehicle should be repaired before returning to a motor vehicle inspection station for a retest.

So you fail because a DTC reveals a problem that MAY cause increased emissions, not HAS or WILL cause them, but MAY result in increased emissions.

Can that even be defensible if challenged on its vagueness? It’s bull crap!

Very nice. Beautiful representation of the Stuka tank buster variant. Ironically similar to the Warthog concept (vice versa really) don’t you think?