2 posts tagged “schism”
How are we going to go beyond the Conservative/Liberal divide and restore civil discourse in the United States of America?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen. I have come to the conclusion that Yu-Gi-Oh was an Anglican.
You see, when I was a Freshman in high school, I started playing the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game with friends. Bringing this out into the open is one of the most humiliating things I've ever done, so let's not focus on this too long. I no longer play (thank goodness – that should go without saying), but I remember a thing or two about the game.
Notably, the best way to win a 4+ player game was to form something called a
SECRET ALLIANCE!
Yes. You read that correctly: a SECRET ALLIANCE! In a few words, here's how it worked. I would whisper to someone playing next to me (generally someone with a much better deck than mine), "SECRET ALLIANCE?" and they would reply "Yea" or "Nay." We would then abstain from attacking each other while playing. When (not if) somebody caught onto our trickery, he or she would form their own SECRET ALLIANCE!
Sound anything like the Anglican Communion? Consider the Common Cause partners or CANA or the Diocese of San Joaquin & the Southern Cone. Here we have an unlikely group of friends: High Church Anglo-Catholics and Low Church Evangelicals. Some ordain women to the priesthood; some don't. Some have smells-n-bells; some have projectors and praise bands.
The point? Now that the separatists have adopted a "my way or the highway" mentality, their schismatic attitude will follow them into their new establishments. Just wait until they start talking about cassocks, incense, chasubles, female priests, and other various tidbits. And if they say they can live within this "diverse" group, why can't they live within the diversity of TEC? I'm not trying to be rude, by the way. This is, however, a valid question.
Oh! One last thing about those not-so-secret secret alliances from the days of yesteryear: they never lasted. Someone had to win, after all, so we all fought each other in the end. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Perhaps. But eventually "Stalin" and "Churchill" will remember who they are.
"Stalin" and "Churchill."
But yes, Yu-Gi-Oh was a priest in the Church of England ca. 1830 (see picture). All of that "Winged Dragon of Ra" stuff was probably just ecumenical research.
