01-26-2021, 09:32 AM
(01-25-2021, 04:00 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(01-25-2021, 03:50 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: I’m pretty sure anything called a “bible chapel” will be protestant. While there are many lunatics within the Roman Catholic church, it is a mainstream group and I would be surprised to find many RC churches in this country flouting mask/closure rules; and I would be even more surprised to find one called a “bible chapel”. The phrase suggests a bibliolatric group, which is associated more with fundamentalist protestantism.
Right. There are non-fundamentalist protestants, too -- such as Anglican, Presbyterian and Lutheran. I would be surprised if any of those flouted the rules.
Indeed. I would be very surprised if any of those flouted mask rules.
Although there is wide variation within those. While the Anglican churches with which I am familiar have no problem with female ministers, I distinctly remember it being a live issue within the wider church, and it probably still is. Or take the Lutherans (which is really an umbrella term for several groups): I think of them as basically Anglicans with different words, but even just a few years ago (maybe still, I don’t know) the church on Willow St. explicitly advertised a “Biblical” (i.e., bigoted) view on homosexuality.
I regret not asking when I had the opportunity: I was speaking to the then-moderator of the United Church of Canada, a gay man. The question is, how far does ecumenism go? For him to share a stage with bishops from the Roman Catholic church, the Anglicans, the Lutherans, etc. seems very natural; but then he is sharing a stage with people, some of whom come from groups which officially believe that he is sinning just by being who he is, and some of whom may even believe so themselves.