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It will be astounding if this comes to pass – this news story details the possibility of the 400,000-strong Traditional Anglican Communion becoming part of the Catholic Church some time after Easter this year.

While there are many issues causing fissures not just in the Anglican Communion but throughout the old, “mainline” Protestant denominations, it still remains that the catalyst – the thing which drew a bright, red line forcing people to line up on one side or the other – was the ordination as a Bishop the openly gay Gene Robinson. While the open homosexuality was a bit of a problem, the thing which proved impossible for many to accept was the fact that Robinson had forsaken his marital vows and went off to live in sin with his male lover. To think that such a person could guide anyone on a Christ-like path was (and is) absurd – while we’re all sinners, we certainly can’t take correction and instruction from someone who is not only an unrepentant sinner, but also someone who claims his sin is not a sin.

The battle lines have been drawn and with all religion – not just Christianity – under attack from within and without, everyone who subscribes to doctrinally sound Christianity has to bury differences and come together. Not necessarily by joining the Catholic Church, but certainly by presenting a united front to the secularists who wish to destroy all religion. This means, by the way, that our Jewish and Moslem brothers and sisters must find room at our table – while the primary ire of the left is directed at Christianity (and especially the Evangelical and Catholic elements of it), the plain fact of the matter is that most leftists consider religion inherently dangerous, at least to the point where they demand it stay out of the public square.

They know what they are doing by having a Bishop like Robinson – heck, Robinson knows it, too – they are attempting to pour leftist content into religion so that while the outward form remains, the internal structure is entirely geared towards making people selfish about their desires and despairing about their future (selfish people who despair are easy pickings for leftist propaganda). The left wants a leftist world, considering it better than the world as shaped by Jews, Christians and Moslems – and that is fine and dandy; but if we don’t want a leftist world, then we’d better get together and get into the fight.