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5.24.2005 | No, they're not kidding

Just when you thought that the Church of the Fluffy Bunny could not sink any lower, they smack us, as though with a pie, with something called the Clown Eucharist. This particular CoTFB is Trinity Church, which, if memory serves, is a member of the Episcopal "Church" USA.

In case any Reformed Protestants are reading this, the Eucharist is ECUSA's centerpiece, the manifestation of Jesus Christ in their midst. Eucharist is a solemn and serious business, or at least used to be. But not this past Sunday at Trinity Church on Wall Street in New York City. From Trinity's website, this:

All are invited to come in clown dress, big hats, floppy shoes or some sort of foolish garb. Those watching on the Internet might even be foolish enough to put on some white face or a big grease-paint smile as we worship God and learn about the structure of the Eucharist by being the circus which came to town and to church on that day. I look forward to worshiping with you.

This is classic CoTFB. It is conforming the holiest rite of the church to the world, thereby making a mockery of it. Trinity's explanation? It's part of "being a fool for Christ."

Trinity's problem? They used the word "fool" in its modern sense; a person with no wits about them; a clown. Hmm. Paul wrote of being a fool in the sense of not accepting the conventional wisdom of the day. For example, from 1 Corinthians 3:

18Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.

Note well the quotation marks in Scripture. I sincerely doubt that Paul and the early Christians would have looked kindly on those who pranced about, making a foolish pudding of the Eucharist. So Trinity's problem, which is shared by many, many Christian Lite attendees, is that they are simply foolish, clowning around, placing the bitter medicine of Christ's sacrifice on the Cross in treacly syrup. Gospels too difficult to swallow? Not to worry, boys and girls, we've got clowns.

This clowning borders on being an abomination before the Lord.

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