[lbo-talk] A Divide, and Maybe a Divorce

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 2/25/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > > "After the war there was a simple reconciliation process, and they
> > were all brought back in as if it had not happened," he said. "I was
> > taught in seminary that this was the great strength of the Episcopal
> > Church, that when all the other churches divided, it stayed together
> > and this was a sign of its great sense of unity. I think it was
> > shameful, that the church considered that unity was more important
> > than slavery."
>
> Someone once said of the Church of England, "Interferes neither with a
> man's politics nor his religion."

Till I read this article, I hadn't realized that the Anglican
Communion was "the world's third-largest church body after the Roman
Catholic and Orthodox Churches."  It's a wonder that such a lukewarm
faith, whose independent career was kicked off by a gambling
philanderer, has managed to supplant so many indigenous belief systems
and spread itself so widely, a testament to the power of the British
Empire.

Empires exported homophobia along with capitalism to the rest of the
world, and now liberals in the heartland of capitalism who have
overcome homophobia at home are facing a blowback.
-- 
Yoshie
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