Ooh! Cut-throat religion after all!

So we shouldn't say people are going to hell (meaning specific people). But look here: we've invented a mechanism for conflict without killing: the market! In fact, the market actually turns conflict into a constructive force! If we dial down our demonizing, it means we can also dial up our marketing! Blam!

Folks, Anglicanism kicks major a**. It's the best branch of the best religion on God's green earth. It's the absolute best mix available of ...

• personal freedom and submission to authority
• musty rote liturgy and 60's Catholic praise choruses
  
• gut-popping faith and witheringly rigorous intellectual honesty
• global religion and local community
• old sh*t and new sh*t
• stability and adventure
  
• normalcy and wonder

We've got worship straight out of Heaven, we've got married priests, we've got small churches and smaller churches, we've got gay liturgophiles and total nutjob charismatics. It's as messy and beautiful as life itself. It's just the Church. You know?

To be an Anglican, here's what you do (yes, Geoff :^) ):

1. Shut off your iPod.
2. Zip up your pants.
   
3. Read the Apostles' Creed and say, "Yeah, ok."
4. Read the Nicene Creed and say, "Yeah, ok."
5. Read the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral and say, "Um, ... ok."
6. Find a parish and start going there.
1. When people are idiots, smile.
7. If there's no parish close, then:
1. Buy a Book of Common Prayer.
2. Wake up on Sunday morning and say Morning Prayer.
3. Advertise on facebook and craigslist.
4. Tell me so I can get you a bishop and add you to our parish finder.
   

So ... who wants in? Feed back to Chad Whitacre.