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Adieu Until Tuesday

It's the beginning of Memorial Day weekend, and work is wrapping up around here. Just wanted to let you know that we'll be back Tuesday morning.

But before I go, I wanted to pass along this story and a warning to my many British friends: it's time to shape up -- or else. The Guardian reports that the principal of Wycliffe Hall (one of the leading Anglican theological training colleges) in Oxford, England, thinks 95 percent of all Brits are going straight to hell. Which basically means that outside the royal family and Anglican clergy, the entire country is doomed. (And when I think about some of the things the royals have done ... maybe only the queen is safe.)

Richard Turnbull made the comments in a speech last October to an evangelical group within the Church of England. They were first made public Wednesday on the Thinking Anglicans liberal Web site.

4:37 PM ET | 05-25-2007 | permalink

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TA was not the first to make this public. That honour goes to Jody at radical-evangelical
http://radical-evangelical.blogspot.com/2007/04/evangelical-or-not-evangelicalthat-is.html

Sent by Simon Sarmiento | 9:37 AM ET | 05-26-2007

Hmmm... so let me see. Evangelical Christian fundamentalists and a few members of the royal family are going to heaven, while most of the Brits and liberal Americans are going to hell? Well that makes for an easy choice of where I want to end up. Better go get supplies now, um, do they have Life of Brian on DVD yet? Also, musn't forget a case of Bodington's ale and me Arsenal jersey.

Sent by John R. Otten | 5:46 PM ET | 05-27-2007

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