Episcopal Bishops miss truth about Dallas killings
by David Virtue, VOL:
A number of episcopal bishops, including the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop, have come out with responses to the recent killings in Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas. Their statements border on the pathetic and inadequate, hiding behind pious platitudes and calls for unity, glossed over with vague prayers for reconciliation.
The Bishop of Dallas, George Sumner, said there were no easy answers, just the need to stand together and pray for the welfare of the city of Dallas.
What about threats to whites, specifically police? No mention. What about the ongoing issue of race that seems worse now in the country than ever before? No mention. What about the easy access and purchase of semi-automatic rifles that cause so many killings in so many communities across America, that few Americans, out of fear of the NRA, have the stomach to oppose, or, better still, preaching the gospel for changed lives. Nothing. No mention.
The Bishop of Louisiana, Morris Thompson Jr., did talk about “the systemic racial divide that haunts our country” and the need to stand together, which is ironic, as Sunday is the most segregated hour in America, and let’s not forget the Episcopal Church is 90% lily white!
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry did mention, some seven times in a broadcast, that “we are all children of God”, which is a self-evident truth, but failed to condemn either the white police killings of two blacks, or the black killing of five white police officers!
His universal cry that we are all ‘children of God’ is about as meaningless as saying that all rabbits like lettuce. Adolph Hitler was a child of God, he was a mass murderer. There was no call for repentance for either side in the race wars by the presiding bishop. We are children of God by birth he repeatedly cried, but we are only sons and daughters of God by reason of the new birth. No mention of that by Michael Curry.
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