Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The links were superb.

But before too much longer, I think the best idea would be to ordain all robots as Episcopal bishops since they then wouldn’t interact with human beings at all.

I dunno, Chris. What about all the lawsuits that they initiate in the name of Fiduciary Responsibility, all praise and power to Her?

Call me delusionally optimistic if you like, Allen, but I have to believe that given the choice between suing some parish out of its building and grounds and unleashing a horde of pillaging, marauding killer robots on the world, that even TEO would choose the former. Of course, I’ve never actualy met David Booth Beers.

Good point, Chris. Besides, suing people is not exactly equivalent to interacting with humans. There are lawyers involved!

“Of course, I’ve never actualy met David Booth Beers.” I haven’t either but my wife used to work for his firm, actually the Mother Ship in Boston, not DC— he IS a lawyer and you can bet the Nave that since he is a partner that all humanity has been stripped from him in the process getting there.

Chris, you should put a “spew warning” on this. I launched the morning’s coffee all over my government computer monitor.

-Jim

“An Anglican Communion Institute internship for all robots would certainly preclude them from taking any action, harmful or otherwise.”

Au contraire, I think they’d learn how to in order to progressively take over by creating facts on the ground to which humans would gradually have concede on pain of being exterminated.

Trying again:

“An Anglican Communion Institute internship for all robots would certainly preclude them from taking any action, harmful or otherwise.”

Au contraire, I think they’d learn how to progressively take over by creating facts on the ground to which humans would gradually have to concede on pain of being exterminated.

Surely the Three Laws of Robotics would suffice (though we must remain vigilant to keep the evolutionistic, socialistic Zeroth Law out of their programming)

But we thought the Episcopal Organization’s canons would suffice, didn’t we, Sodbuster, and look where that’s gotten us. In the fight against the threat of hordes of marauding, pillaging killer robots, we must remain ever vigilant. Either that or make them all suffragan Episcopal bishops here in Missouri in which case they’d all be reduced to inert masses that spout pointless generalities every year or so.

It is a sad thing to watch the Apostolic Succession being removed from a church body. It reminds me of the letter to the Church in Ephesus in Rev 2:5 where the Risen Lord tells them to repent, or else He will come and remove their candlestick.

Yes, and the Diocese of Missouri is running the race to get its candlestick taken away. The resolutions for transmitting the gay agenda to the companion Diocese of Lui (the Sudanese bishop at Lambeth really hacked the diocese libprotsinfancydress with the call for ECUSA/TEC to leave the Anglican Communion), authorizing same-sex blessings, and not holding one’s sexual proclivities as a bar to ordination (one’s Traditional theology is already an absolute bar) are to be voted on.

The resolutions are c106 - c109. I’d link you to them, but http://www.missouri.anglican.org/ is now only giving “invalid host name”. Which theological point I shall not need berate, shall I?

I fear the complete success of the gaygenda and the abdication of any appearance of Windsor Compliance, even though George Wayne flew to Lambeth and thereby signalled his intention to abide thereby. But, consistency and all that…

Slightly OT:

Christopher - is there something in the water of Webster Grovers?

http://www.bnd.com/breaking_news/story/550673.html

Must be the close association to CCC. Or Eden. But it can’t be true because she is self-excommunicated. But, hey, what doctrine really matters to this sort!?

I don’t know, Ken. But my home town has to be considered the fake Catholic Vatican. This Rowley attended Eden Seminary, the UCC joint on Lockwood Avenue(across the street from my old parish), her “church” is also on Lockwood three quarters of a mile or so west and I think she lives around here. I’m just waiting for the lefty pilgrimages to Webby G to get going so I can quit my job and make money selling stuff to them.

Chris,
Maybe the word for it is the Webster Groves Centre for Surrealigiousity and Haute-presumption or pseudo-Vatican or ‘anti-Vatican’ (like anti-christ) and these people would be pseudo-priests or anti-bishops.

Makes me no never mind, Whitestone, as long as these people are gullible enough to buy leftist “relics” from me.

Christopher, Don’t forget fake Native American tchotchkes. Maybe you can work a deal with the Dio. North Dakota. They must have a ton of stuff lying around now that they’ve closed those churches out in Pine Ridge.

Christopher, that of course, is why there is now a black hole where Trantor used to orbit.

Can we give these pisky-bots ’swarm intelligence’ like on Numb3rs last night, so that they will all cluster together and leave us alone?

Ok. The diocese of MO dropped the Anglican bit -good thing given today’s votes- and now may be found here:
http://www.diocesemo.org/

The above cited Resolutions all passed, rather predictably.
http://www.diocesemo.org/downloads/08resolutions.pdf

Summary:

C-169 : continue to give money to Diocese of Lui and try to co-opt them to “our understandings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ”.

E-169 : “sexual orientation” not a bar to discernment for “any ministry, lay or ordained, in this Church solely on the basis of being in such a relationship”. E.g., laity, deacon, priest, bishop

F-169 : “that the Ecclesiastical Authority of each diocese may authorize for use in the diocese liturgies for blessing same-gender committed relationships”; that these be developed and presented to General Convention in 2012 for “inclusion in “Book of Occasional Service’”; and “no
(one) shall be required or expected to perform an act contrary to deeply-held position of conscience”.

So, despite +George Wayne’s trip to Lambeth in the ABC’s understanding of committing to the Windsor process and the Covenant process, the Diocese voted FOR same-sex blessings (moratoria #1 down), for same-gendered relationships to be deacons, priests, and bishops (moratoria #2 down), and to spread the gay-agendized NEW THANG GOZPEL (c) of the ECUSA/TEC to the Diocese of Lui (moratoria #3 down).

That would be strikes 1, 2, and 3. The Diocese of Missouri has abdicated the Windsor Process and clearly signaled the ABC it has no intention of worrying about its relationship to the ABC or the Anglican Communion.

Of course, that’s if you believe the Archbishop of Canterbury:
The Archbishop of Canterbury writes: “Any diocese compliant with Windsor remains clearly in communion with Canterbury and the mainstream of the Communion, whatever may be the longer-term result for others in The Episcopal Church. The organ of union with the wider Church is the Bishop and the diocese rather than the Provincial structure as such.”
or,
The Archbishop of Canterbury writes: “We have asked for more clarity as to whether a moratorium has indeed been agreed on the election of bishops in active sexual partnerships outside marriage; and we have suggested a similar voluntary moratorium by the bishops on licensing any kind of liturgical order for same-sex blessings (the understanding of the (Dar es Salaam) Meeting was certainly that this should be a comprehensive abstention from any public rites), at least for the period during which the wider discussion of the Covenant goes forward.”
And our Bishop, George Wayne Smith, did go to Lame-beth, so one must assume agreeing to the ABC’s statement that such attendance would signify participation in the Covenant process, one would think these resolutions non-starters.