tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post5265559169617205180..comments2024-03-11T03:02:29.875-06:00Comments on Simple Massing Priest: Projection: "the operation of expelling feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable . . .by attributing them to another"Malcolm+http://www.blogger.com/profile/08469936715413110334noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-87676933472871938122010-09-04T16:08:49.192-06:002010-09-04T16:08:49.192-06:00This projection is transparent!This projection is transparent!Tobias Stanislas Haller BSGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08047429477181560685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761538946854485154.post-22756116181282931492010-07-30T19:17:35.278-06:002010-07-30T19:17:35.278-06:00The following excerpt from the CANA Convention and...The following excerpt from the CANA Convention and commentary from Fathe ake are enlightening:<br /><br />"4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Anglican Action - Institute on Religion & Democracy - Anglican Action promotes orthodox social witness, teaching, and practice within the worldwide Anglican Communion..."<br /><br />The IRD promotes social witness? Unbelievable. For those who may have forgotten, the IRD used to be a group of radical anti-communists during the Reagan era. When their fanatacism lead to the death of some innocent missionaries in Central America, they recast their image, with their new target being "progressive" (in their mind, "Marxist") leaders in the mainline Christian denominations. They were still able to draw funds from the same small pool of extreme right backers that supported their anti-communist rhetoric. What brought them to light for most Anglicans was their significant role in the creation of the American Anglican Council, which became the Network, which became ACNA. So why are they present at this Council? Because, when it comes to the schismatic Virginia parishes, the IRD has always been around, usually lurking in the shadows. Consider this quote from a 2006 entry on the Casandra Pages:<br /><br /><br />...The announcement about the Virginia parishes has been directed by the skillful spokespeople at the Institute for Religion and Democracy (IRD), a neo-conservative Washington think-tank that has innumerable connections, through its board of directors and officers, to the conservative Washington area parishes that have recently left the Episcopal Church. These parishes have been home to prominent conservatives such as Oliver North and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as well as top-level IRD Episcopalians. For instance, Fox News commentator Fred Barnes is a member of the Falls Church congregation, and serves on the Board of the IRD; Fox has covered this story extensively and sympathetically, interviewing Barnes as part of a roundtable discussion, but never mentioning his IRD connectionSuper Anglicannoreply@blogger.com