tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post5806917954587000040..comments2023-10-25T04:22:54.910-07:00Comments on An Anglican Priest: The Ruminations of a Canterbury Cap Catholic: Rev. Dr. Hasserthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-45528400331870376432007-04-26T07:02:00.000-07:002007-04-26T07:02:00.000-07:00Death Bredon is alive and well, but in his human f...Death Bredon is alive and well, but in his human frailty became overly frustrated about religious matters and decided to stop his Patristic Anglican Website. Perhaps in the future, after a respite to regain perspective, he may resume.<BR/><BR/>Thanks everyone for your concern.<BR/><BR/>Christ is Risen!<BR/><BR/>DBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-78435514066372937262007-03-19T13:36:00.000-07:002007-03-19T13:36:00.000-07:00I regret that this excellent blog has been used by...I regret that this excellent blog has been used by someone who feels unable to give his name but who feels free to make anonymous and false charges about myself, my history and my consecration. First, I am not a "rector," but merely 'priest-in-charge.' I serve as a chaplain to those who have been absued by several continuing Church groups. They will make the decisions about affiliation and not I.<BR/><BR/>Secondly, my 3-mail address is bishoppoteet@yahoo.com and my telephone number is (918) 377-2582. If you have a name, please feel free to contact me and I will be more than happy to respond.<BR/><BR/>Finally, I apologize to the blog owner who is doing much of what I would like to be doing and that well. We may not agree on every issue or every fact, but he has the general thrust of classical prayer book Anglicanism down well. May his readers increase. I feel that my nameless attacker is abusing the blog and that I, by posting even this much, am doing likewise. It is a shame that those who claim the name of Christian should act so.<BR/><BR/>+Lee, Sometimes St. Matthew & the West.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-9045062210193946352007-03-19T12:28:00.000-07:002007-03-19T12:28:00.000-07:00"Bishop" Poteet,Why should I have to tell you who ..."Bishop" Poteet,<BR/><BR/>Why should I have to tell you who I am before you answer my legitimate questions? If you can prove that you've been consecrated in apostolic succession, why not simply do it?<BR/><BR/>You sit in judgment over anyone and everyone else, including men whose consecrations are indisputably valid -- George David Cummins, Ray R. Sutton, et al. You bash the REC, the APA, and virtually every other continuing Anglican denomination. But when I have the temerity to ask you a few questions, you refuse to answer because I'm anonymous? What a crock.<BR/><BR/>For others who are interested, check out:<BR/><BR/>http://leepoteet.tripod.com/<BR/><BR/>This will be the last time I post here on the subject. My apologies to the blog owner for cluttering up his blog with my questions for "Bishop" Poteet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-71002752801828818782007-03-17T10:14:00.000-07:002007-03-17T10:14:00.000-07:00I noticed as well that The Patristic Anglican was ...I noticed as well that The Patristic Anglican was down. Hope everything is ok.Rev. Dr. Hasserthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-76709944362812070672007-03-17T09:44:00.000-07:002007-03-17T09:44:00.000-07:00I have only taken one posting down from this site,...I have only taken one posting down from this site, and it was not one of Lee Poteet's, so only one incident of censorship has been applied. <BR/><BR/>However, I don't want this site to be a battleground for personal arguments. I try and keep things on an academic level to the best of my ability.<BR/><BR/>Sorry I haven't been posting lately--busy with other things. Hope to get back to a regular pace soon.Rev. Dr. Hasserthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-83694030314623858092007-03-17T08:28:00.000-07:002007-03-17T08:28:00.000-07:00I see our anonymous fellow is yet unwilling to rev...I see our anonymous fellow is yet unwilling to reveal his name. I wonder why. Too bad as it says something about him and his own agenda.<BR/><BR/>I am wondering about "Death Bredon" and The Patristic Anglican. Are things all right there. With 'An Anglican Cleric' I judge it among the best truly Anglican spots on the internet. Would like to know that he, at least, is ok.<BR/><BR/>I am beginning to realize that I am being censored and that is ok. You own the blog and do an excellent job. Please keep it up.<BR/><BR/>Lee PoteetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-44662259540096069092007-03-13T09:53:00.000-07:002007-03-13T09:53:00.000-07:00A few questions for "Bishop" Lee Poteet:1. Who con...A few questions for "Bishop" Lee Poteet:<BR/><BR/>1. Who consecrated you?<BR/><BR/>2. Can you demonstrate with proof that this consecration was within Apostolic succession?<BR/><BR/>3. Why does the "parish" you serve exist outside of any continuing Anglican denomination?<BR/><BR/>4. Valid Anglican ecclesiology presumes authority and responsibility. By claiming to be a "bishop," you claim authority -- but to whom are you responsible?<BR/><BR/>5. What are your educational credentials? From what college(s) did you graduate? Where did you take your theological degree(s)?<BR/><BR/>If you claim authority and/or knowledge, and you do, you should not hesitate to answer these questions...unless you have something to hide.<BR/><BR/>I'm waiting, "Bishop."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-30195239695436074272007-03-11T20:22:00.000-07:002007-03-11T20:22:00.000-07:00I removed a comment concerning Lee Potet's ecclesi...I removed a comment concerning Lee Potet's ecclesiastical credentials because it has already been posted elsewhere on this site. <BR/><BR/>I'm not one for limiting free speech--just that the post was a verbatim post of something already posted.Rev. Dr. Hasserthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-84720403056779568412007-03-11T14:12:00.000-07:002007-03-11T14:12:00.000-07:00Anyone who can call Archbishop Laud a tyrant for s...Anyone who can call Archbishop Laud a tyrant for simply enforcing the law against all comers, the rich and well placed as well of lesser folk is . . .well, some sort of nut. Prynne was another sort of nut who refused to acknowledge the requirements of the English prayer book of his time and turned Puritan while at Durham. But the real importance of Laud is that he stood against what was to prove a greater tyranny, that of Cromwell's dictatorship which wqs the forerunner of every terrorist totalitarian state from then forward.<BR/>Second, anyone who calls Elizabeth I bloody given the difference between her reign with its numbers and that of her sister or indeed of any Roman Catholic monarch of her time is less than rational. Do we forget or ignore the St Bartholomew day's massacre and other lesser but like events in the papist states? <BR/>Thirdly to call the reforms that were instituted under Elizabeth "a new religion" is to forget that they were but a return to the practices of the whole Christian Church in the first five centuries. The seminary priests who came over from the continent to service the papist recusants also acted as spies and agents of a foreign power for the overthrow of the English Church and state, the latter still a capital crime in most countries.<BR/>The result of Anglicanism over the last four centuries is that it has produced the freest states among the nations of the world - not a bad record for a very minor country that was wracked with poverty at the beginning of Elizabeth's reign.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-69050531680291850682007-03-02T19:36:00.000-08:002007-03-02T19:36:00.000-08:00The English people had a bone of contention with A...The English people had a bone of contention with Archbishop Laud that extended beyond merely his supposed revival of popery. Laud was a tyrant and at the heart of his draconian rule was the star chamber that had severely oppressed writers like William Prynne. This became intolerable to a free people, apart from contention over theological minutiae. Second, you are ignoring the means by which Cranmer and later Elizabeth enforced their state religion: by dictatorship and suppression. Attendance at Anglican service was required. The Latin Mass of long custom and tradition was suppressed and those who officiated at it subject to capital punishment. All was not as clean and simple under Bloody Bess as your article makes out. This is not to say that within Protestant orthodoxy itself, for those who chose that form of worship, the Anglican church was not possessed a certain wisdom and judicious preservation of particular customs and practices. But perhaps that was necessary to secure the Protestant overthrow of the old order--to incorporate and thereby co-opt some cherished aspects of it. But it cannot be gainsaid that the Anglican Church was built upon the coercion exhibited by a state religion; and much harm was done to those who could not conform to the new religion. --M. HoffmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com