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Posted By: 4250Luis, 1/23/2025 3:58:20 PM

While President Trump is enacting big, bold, audacious plans for America, it might be time to scrap all services at the activist-oriented National Cathedral and start a different tradition in a more welcoming, inclusive place. It’s no secret that traditional religious denominations in America have long been on a downward spiral, closing their doors for good. It should also come as no surprise that the Episcopal church has been one of the hardest hit groups. One expert on the denomination even said that on its current course, the Episcopal church could disappear by 2050. I can totally see that happening.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: itsonlyme 1/23/2025 4:08:45 PM (No. 1880197)
There will always be Green haired, head half-shaven, nose and lip rings looking for "salvation thru freebies".
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Sanddollar 1/23/2025 4:10:45 PM (No. 1880199)
Susan Harris hit a grand slam with this piece. I agree. Time to ditch the National Cathedral. Why is this service needed with all the prayers at the inauguration?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: philsner 1/23/2025 4:14:25 PM (No. 1880202)
She makes it sound like the Episcopal church contracted a virus or something. Nothing "hit it". It rotted from within.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: ScarletPimpernel 1/23/2025 4:38:56 PM (No. 1880239)
I lived in Northern Virginia when about eleven conservative Episcopal congregations eventually lost their properties to the Episcopal Church, and these congregations had to find other facilities. At lest one of the congregations I visited had built and paid for their facility. They had stopped giving money to the main Episcopal Church, and instead set the money aside for their buiding project. Also three of these congregations were historic ones, including The Falls Church, worshipped in by George Washigton. I visited a couple of these churches for various functions. I remember the earthquake of 2011, sitting at my computer and feeling the tremor. It took me a bit to realize what had just happened, since I had never experienced an earthquake. In November 2014 the Cathedral leadership hosted Muslims to hold their Friday prayer service in the Cathedral space. as "an appreciation of one another’s prayer traditions and is a powerful symbolic gesture toward a deeper relationship between the two Abrahamic traditions." Fools. Muslims would have seen this as Islam having claimed (i.e., conquered) a Christian structure for Islam.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: lynngirl122 1/23/2025 4:53:47 PM (No. 1880248)
Wackos, pinkos and homos.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 1/23/2025 5:00:55 PM (No. 1880253)
I agree.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 1/23/2025 5:11:10 PM (No. 1880262)
My mother passed away 10 years ago, and the last check she wrote before she passed was a donation to the National Cathedral whose architecture she loved. At least once a year, they send begging letters to her at my address. They go straight into the trash.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 1/23/2025 6:29:26 PM (No. 1880350)
Unfortunately, the Presbyterians do not seem far behind.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: udanja99 1/23/2025 7:16:17 PM (No. 1880406)
#4, the same thing happened here in Charleston, SC with the Episcopal Diocese taking over the properties of various churches in the area. I attend a very conservative Anglican Church which was build in 1706 and was here long before there was an Episcopal diocese. It took almost a decade of court battles but we stopped the diocese from seizing our property by proving that our church was there before they were and they had no right to it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: volksford 1/23/2025 7:25:16 PM (No. 1880415)
You start following some of these " orgainzed " churches and you will soon forget who you need to be talking to.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 1/23/2025 8:41:53 PM (No. 1880469)
Sounds right to me. This arrogant and disrespectful pastor thinks that she can lecture the President and indirectly all the people who voted for him to do EXACTLY what he is doing? The church leadership must have set this up and known what she was going to do. Let's just walk away.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: bighambone 1/23/2025 9:38:00 PM (No. 1880519)
Chances are we watched the end of the National Prayer Service at that National Cathedral with that highly politicized sermon!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: rochow 1/23/2025 10:44:58 PM (No. 1880580)
If they do not throw out this fruitcake streetwalker 'bishop' I hope they will be finished sooner. The end of this year cannot be soon enough.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: mifla 1/24/2025 7:00:14 AM (No. 1880742)
Churches who think they are smarter than God are destined to fail.
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