Quote: (12-01-2017 11:01 PM)stugatz Wrote:
I'm confused about Anglican vs. Episcopalian - as far as I know, the latter term is both an alternate term for Anglican, AND it also refers to a sub-church that came from the Anglicans.
That said, there are certainly conservative Anglican churches left. Episcopalians are the ones in the US ordaining tranny & dyke bishops and blessing abortion clinics.
I believe Anglicans were, at one point, just as badass as any other conservative denomination. Take this hymn, for example...
Jerusalem is not technically a hymn. It is not a prayer to God. And it was written not by any cleric of the Anglican Church but by William Blake, who often gets shanghaied into the Christianity as some sort of orthodox believer but who was in life fiercely against organised religion of all kinds, and particularly against the Anglican Church. That "hymn" was written by the same guy who said Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion., and As the catterpillar [sic] chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
So far as anyone can work out William Blake's religion, he seems to have regarded God as utterly and incomprehensibly transcendantalist, and religion as trying to put a harness on a wild horse. That in mind, I often wonder whether he was making some other arcane point with that poem, written in a book about Milton, and prefaced the poem as follows:
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn:
And then follows the poem. Read it carefully.
And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands[b] mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.
This is war on urban society he is talking about. The Dark Satanic Mills he is talking about are the engines of industry, the mills of the industrial revolution where so many children suffered and died.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm