Saturday, January 9, 2010

Does the pope intend to create a federal religion?



In our own country here, people have been fighting for the kind of federal they don’t know, but in the last few months that have fallen, the holy see in Rome has been bidding the Anglican faithful who are disgruntled with there church to convert to roman Catholicism he has promised to make it easy. It is easy for them to join and says he would even allow them to retain some of there Anglican traditions even though, they would still be under the Catholic Church. Does this mean ordained female priests will remain priests? Does it also, mean that married Anglican priests will be allowed to remain so? Furthermore and the greatest of all questions, does this mean pope benedict intends to create a federal religion within the Roman Catholic Church?



The history of the Anglican church has a king who was denied a divorce by a pope behind it, and this was the quarrel that led to the establishment of the Anglican church with Henry himself as head, he went on to divorce as many women as he wanted. In the time of colonialism, it was spread here in Africa by the Britons, who are the ones right now turning a deaf ear to homosexuality an abhorred vice which is causing the present split in the church, it is however surprising that the Africans who were converted are the ones taking a firm stand against homosexuality and the prelates in Canterbury are just looking on as the split becomes deeper and deeper, however pope benedict came up with an idea to bring those against homosexuality into the roman catholic church, promising them greater freedom within the church, this is almost like a federal religion within the church, and with freedoms being given to Anglican priests wont we have catholic priests converting to the federal Anglican religion within there church.



The religion which stands to gain most when Anglican church leaders in Africa and the rest of the world decide to take a stand against Canterbury is the born agains, the seventh day Adventists have not positioned themselves so well so as to gain from this deepening split within the Anglican church because for those who are stuck with a decision to leave there church and join the conservative roman Catholics, there is no way they would join another conservative church and the ever so liberal born agains seem to be gaining from the split in the Anglican church and the conservative roman Catholics.



However despite the deepening split, the prelates in England seem to be unaware of the right and are not even doing anything to bridge the gap, Rowan Williams and his comrades don’t seem to be bothered by the holy see’s call urging there faithful to join the roman catholic church, or is this stand on homosexuality a deliberate move by Canterbury to push her faithful towards the Vatican and roman Catholicism as the first step in achieving the long awaited ecumenical movement where all religions would unite under one leader, who will most definitely be the pope in Rome.

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