Falling for the oldest trick in the book Literally!

You’re wrong, Sergeant Ben­ton. That is the old­est trick in the book!

The Mas­ter: Dr. Who The Time Mon­ster 1972

In this weeks Under the Fedora col­umn I ref­er­enced a post up at Beliefnet con­cern­ing the Epis­co­pal church and its dis­in­te­grat­ing membership.

It wasn’t a big sur­prise and I just filed it away until Thurs­day when I read it to a friend of mine and some­thing jumped out at me.

it’s the type of thing that a per­son even slightly versed in Scrip­ture might have caught as Paul put it:

for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their rea­son­ing, and their sense­less minds were dark­ened. While claim­ing to be wise, they became fools Romans 1:21 – 22

How fool­ish. let me show you. Here is a quote from the piece on the ser­mon from Pre­sid­ing Bishop Katharine Jef­ferts Schori at the annual US convention

“Jef­ferts Schori then pro­claims that she has the answer for this. We all need the ‘act of cross­ing bound­aries’ to become God after which our hands become a ‘sacra­ment of mis­sion.’ (empha­sis mine)

So the pre­sid­ing of Bishop of the Epis­co­palians advises peo­ple to “become God” where have I heard this before?

Now the ser­pent was the most cun­ning of all the ani­mals that the LORD God had made. The ser­pent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the gar­den?” The woman answered the ser­pent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the gar­den; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the mid­dle of the gar­den that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.’” But the ser­pent said to the woman: “You cer­tainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleas­ing to the eyes, and desir­able for gain­ing wis­dom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her hus­band, who was with her, and he ate it. Gen­e­sis 3:1 – 6

The very first temp­ta­tion caus­ing the very first sin ever as listed in the first book of the Bible.

How fool­ish is the Pre­sid­ing Bishop of the Epis­co­pal annual con­fer­ence, she is so fool­ish she lit­er­ally fell for the old­est trick in THE book.

You don’t get much worse than that.

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The DaT­e­chGuy fundraiser con­tin­ues and I got a look at an accept­able car that I might get for a bit less that I expected. This could shave quite a few dol­lars off the needed: “get a car” goal.

Any help is appre­ci­ated. For details click here for the progress check the ther­mome­ter to the right and to kick in hit DaTipJar”.