In recent years, the Anglican Communion suffered from inner turmoil over the argument of allowing openly gay priests into the church hierarchy. According to the Anglican Mainstream (an Anglican community website), the former Bishop of Edinburgh, Reverend Richard Holloway, welcomed the first appointment of an openly gay minister to the Church of Scotland.

When commenting on the appointment, Canon Sugden said, “Same-sex behavior is clearly contrary to the Bible’s teaching…The Bible is also explicit about appropriate behavior of the households of those who are called to lead and teach the church.”

Even with the above actions, Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, the Anglican version of a pope, recently reaffirmed the traditional Anglican attitude toward these controversies. It is still against the Anglican Communion’s official position to allow openly gay priests, but the church really values all the homosexuals they let serve as clergy, blah, blah, blah. It’s the same pejorative crap we always hear: “You’re fine where you are, but we don’t want you any higher up the food chain.”

The Catholic Church, reacting to the controversy, opened its doors to conservative Anglicans who were upset by the “liberalizing” of their church. It’s been reported the Catholic Church is going so far as to allow married Anglican priests to keep their marriage and stay ordained.

This, of course, pissed off the archbishop, but he’s putting on a good game face and making nice with the pope.

This demonstration of whining, moaning and fighting between two ancient organizations is worthless. But then, in my opinion, the two organizations are worthless. It’s far too easy for me to just say God doesn’t exist and churches are meaningless; we can have more fun with it. Hypocrisy is embedded in organized religion from the top.

To see this corruption, you need only to look at Vatican City. I’ve never been to the Vatican, but I’ve seen pictures, and you can’t tell me the pope doesn’t live like a king. I’m pretty sure the archbishop has a pretty nice place too, though maybe not the palace the pope has. This luxurious lifestyle doesn’t seem to be what Christ was yapping about in the Bible.

The constant infighting in churches across the world causes me to wonder why so many of us throw our money away on these organizations, when the money could be better given to secular charitable organizations that do good without the dogma and wasteful spending. There’s corruption and greed in any institute, but we’ll be better off giving our money to organizations that have the sole goal of helping the needy, not buying the pope a new hat or bickering about gay priests.