The Rev. Tobias G. Haller has published a brilliant and savagely incisive “Swiftian catena” (I had to look that one up):
The General Convention should have listened to the clear directions of the Primates and repented and repudiated all that had been done to offend.
The Episcopal Church should have ignored the tradition of national church polity and remained as a missionary arm of the Church of England even after the Revolution.
The Church of England should have listened to the pope and never separated from Rome.
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Jesus should have heeded Peter’s advice and turned back from Jerusalem.
He might also have considered more seriously the various options presented to him in the Wilderness Report.
Joseph should have ignored the “personal revelation” he received — again in a dream, no less — and acted in accordance with the Law, and when he found Mary to be with child by someone other than himself, had her stoned to death, and her unborn child with her.
Then we wouldn’t be having all these problems with the Anglican Communion.
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