This is comment #13 from this post, regarding the Episcopal church. I've never heard Episcopalianism described this way, but it seems fairly accurate to me. Any comments?
God is the judge of human hearts, finally—and for that we are all glad. Thanks be to God, profoundly. So even as we make our judgments we do so with humility, knowing our own frailty. But we do make judgments, discerning light from dark, truth from error, belief from non-belief, orthodoxy from heterodoxy. As I have been watching TEC over the last years, having traveled some to India too, I have come to believe that TEC is Hinduism with an Enlightenment face.
As there is nothing really new under the sun, TEC’s stated convictions are Hindu—but they are offered to us through the experience of the Enlightenment, i.e. the problem with the global South church is that it has not come through the Enlightenment, it is still “pre-modern,” sadly and tragically. Oh if they only knew the Enlightenment tradition as we do! Then they would know!
Are there Christians in TEC; yes, and God knows his own. Is TEC an honestly Christian institution? No, it is happily Hindu, where Jesus among many other ways to the divine are all honored as equally true and right. But it is modern, maybe even very post-modern too—whose worst face is the culture of whatever.
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It's sad. The church seems bent on seeming proper to the world. I pray that God in His mercy and grace set them right again.
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