If you think the interpretation is moronic, then you have no idea what the original meaning was at all. If anyone is going to suggest that Robert Baden Powell would have ever accepted sodomy as moral conduct, then they're either delusional or patently dishonest. But congrats, liberals and libertarians. You've killed scouting. It make take the body a few years to finish off, but the poison is already working.

If she's going to turn her church into decadent paganism, she may as well look the part.

You win Ricochet

I couldn't disagree with you more on this. This is precisely the time to teach. Teaching doesn't mean that you can't comfort, either. It's not either-or.

Why? Because someone might be offended? This is one of the reasons why Christians are losing the cultural fight right now. This is exactly the kind of time to use Biblical quotes, to put our lives in context of the bigger picture and teach what's really important.

The Conservative Party.  Plain and simple. "Constitution Party" is already taken, or I'd throw that out there too.

Oh come on. The title of the episode had "zombie" in it. 

More likely it's the Lord of the Flies.

That's because of the historical legacy of the Episcopals being "America's Church"... the vast majority of the Founding Fathers were Episcopal. But history has no bearing on present reality, where the EC has become a hollowed corpse, a zombified, empty mockery of what it once was, with empty pews testifying to the long work of self-destruction that people like the Bishop have so earnestly tried to accomplish.

Mike LaRoche

Socialism and Islam both seek the destruction of the West, hence their de facto alliance.

Don't forget feminists. Three groups utterly at odds with each other, yet united in their zeal to destroy the West.

I think the population is far gone enough that not only is 2016 safe for Democrats, 2014 might be too.

Hate crime, more likely.

Mike LaRoche

Nigel Farage needs to be the next Prime Minister of the UK.  Time for some sensible immigration policies throughout the West.

How much do you want to bet that the next PM elected is Labour, on a platform of More Europe, More Socialism, More Multiculturalism?

Many times, yes, this is the historical pattern. But it can't go on forever. All civilizations reach a point where they "break", and the pendulum stops swinging, and the civilization simply dies. I think we've passed that point of no return. No civilization in history has done what we're doing and continued for long. Those stereotypes of decadent Rome, with the orgies and stuff? Way overblown, and what of it that did happen was in the late Empire not long before it collapsed. Romans were famously prudish in public, even close to the end. A Caesar banished his daughter to an island... and not a comfortable imprisonment, either... because she was easy.

The question is begged here, though: is moral decline a cause of civilization death, or a symptom?

Someone here once said they didn't like Rick Santorum because he was a "scold". Well, take a gander at these numbers, whoever you were: the nation desperately needs fewer cool kids and more scolds. I'm not optimistic about the future.When I was a child, I really didn't have much hope for the future because the conventional wisdom was that the Soviets were going to nuke everything into oblivion. Nothing terrified me as a boy quite like that old HBO special (with Orson Welles narrating) about Nostrodomus and his supposed prophecy about NYC being nuked, resulting in a John Carpenter-like wasteland were we slowly died of radiation while turning to cannibalism to feed. After the Soviet union imploded with a gentle *poof*, I was quite the optimist about the future, of America and the world.  That's all gone now. The Bible gives some comfort, as it has stated all along that it would come to this... but it's still depressing to see "One Nation Under God" becoming the worst kind of Sodom and Gomorra. And it's our own children that will betray us and tear down everything. 

And now Ofonagoro runs an investment firm. Maybe he's the Nigerian I keep getting all those offers of free money from.