Why the Episcopal Church Rejects White South African Refugees

By Joe Schaeffer | May 18, 2025 | @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Illegal Immigration, Opinion

The progressive-dominated Episcopal Church has finally found a foreigner it doesn’t want resettled into the US. White South Africans fleeing oppression cannot be welcomed into America because, in the eyes of these religious leftists, that would help bolster a dominant and oppressive “lighter skin tone” (their words) social construct that must be destroyed.

For the progressive activist, the massive unchecked wave of Third World immigration into the West, both legal and illegal, was never about helping vulnerable refugees. It was always about enacting radical social transformation via rapid and undigestible demographic change. Genuine assimilation is the very last thing these people would have wanted. The reasons why should not be hard to grasp. Harmony is the enemy of the social revolutionary. Division and disorder are two of the very best of tools for those eager to topple a hated status quo.

Not the Right Face for a Refugee

“In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on [May 12] that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump’s administration,” is how taxpayer-funded progressive NPR reported the news.

In what would seem to be a bizarre justification but in fact is nothing of the sort when one realizes its long-term goals, the Church invoked “racial justice” as a reason to reject the white South Africans.

“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” a letter from the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, to members states.

The moral opposition goes far beyond 1980s-vintage multicultural rainbow daydreams that have turned into a bloodstained-machete disaster in modern South Africa. Social progressives will not allow themselves to believe that white Westerners can be victims of racial abuse. For this goes against their entire worldview that white racism is the original sin that must be wiped away in order to return Multicultural Humankind to the socially just Garden of Eden.

Episcopal Epistle on Sin and Skin

In a remarkable document some 20 years ahead of its time, the Episcopal Church House of Bishops in 1994 issued a pastoral letter on the “Sin of Racism.” Guess who the great transgressors were?

“In the United States our primary experience is one of white privilege, even in places where whites may be a minority in the surrounding population,” the bishops proclaimed. “This comes as a surprise to many white people, because they do not think of themselves as racist. They may even see themselves as victims of various violent reactions against the dominant culture.”

The next sentences are crucial to understanding why white South Africans cannot be allowed into the US.

“Questions abound. Can the old melting pot image of assimilation be replaced by a better metaphor that reflects the value of difference?” the pastoral letter asks. “How can the inherited privilege and unearned advantage of some people be used to bring about the reconciliation of all?… How can the Episcopal Church, which reflects the dominant culture, be a factor in changing destructive racial attitudes and behaviors?”

Helping to bring more whites into an America that they can easily assimilate into is anathema to these clerical revolutionaries because they believe it will strengthen a society that they have sworn to overthrow.

The Episcopal Church has openly stated that white skin perpetuates “the nature of racism” that has defined America since its founding.

“As it remains in the USA today, racism is a system of oppression grounded in visible physical differences, and is designed to perpetuate the belief that one ‘race’ – defined primarily by its lighter skin tone – is superior to all others,” a 2011 “Antiracism Training Manual of the Episcopal Church” declares. “What transforms it from a prejudice into an oppressive system is the reinforcement that it receives from the systemic exercise of collective power, culturally socialized and institutionally organized.”

That is from an official document of the Episcopal Church.

Mandatory Anti-Racism Training For Priests

Lest we be accused of cherry-picking years-old tracts, allow us to present the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey’s “Anti-Racism Training 2025” seminar. It starts out with a quote from Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza stressing that “racism” is a “system of oppression” that serves as “a way of maintaining power for certain groups at the expense of others.”

For Discerning News Hounds

“Systemic racism in America began during the colonial period and continues today. One reason it’s been able to survive is because it’s kept hidden and denied,” the diocese states. Among the topics that make up its Anti-Racism Training Zoom classes are “Systemic Racism and White Privilege,” “Internalized Racism, “Settler Colonialism” and “Racism in Immigration and Naturalization.”

Now here’s the kicker. You can’t be a priest or lay leader in the Episcopal Church in New Jersey without submitting to this education.

“All lay and clergy who hold elected positions on commissions, committees and other bodies of the Diocese of New Jersey must take the training at least every three years,” the diocese orders. “In addition, all clergy new to the Diocese are required to take Anti-Racism within 12 months of their calling.”

Anti-white agitation is not some fringe spoke of the US Episcopal Church today. It is a defining marker. It should be a scandal of the first magnitude that the federal government lavished millions in taxpayer funds to help these cultural radicals pursue their toxic agenda via the NGO mass immigration pipeline.

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Heretics Leave a Moral Foundation of Quicksand

By Rich Kozlovich

On January 5, 2020 Andrew Harrod posted the article, "The Episcopal Church's Fruits of Heresy" saying:

“This church has about 30 more years before it is dead,” stated one young man at a 2016 forum at the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in Alexandria, Virginia, as quoted in the recent book The Seduction of the Episcopal Church.  Therein Anglican author David Virtue, a longtime critical observer of worldwide Anglicanism, reviews the Episcopal Church’s decades-long fall from grace in an exposé of Christian folly in accommodating a secularized, sexualized modernity.

He goes on to say:

“Spiritual and ecclesiastical death marks the present and future state of this denomination” today as Episcopal Church membership has cratered from a 1966 peak of 3,647,297, to 1,676,349 in 2018.  Particularly the 2003 consecration of noncelibate homosexual V. Gene Robinson as an Episcopal bishop unleashed an “ecclesiastical tsunami wave” and the “worst single outflow of Episcopalians in modern history,” over 100,000......Largely due to his lobbyist “inglorious victory for one man,” the “Church had gone from thoroughly heterosexual to pansexual in one generation,” Virtue notes, a “feat that present day cultural Marxists could only stand back and admire.”...........

The article goes on to describe the depth of heresy to which these Bishops have plunged this church.  The article ends with saying this church will pretty much cease to exist with-in two generations.  That's being optimistic in my opinion, and demographics are going to play a huge, huge, role in the demise of these religions.  He goes on to say:

"now other Christians must heed this writing on the wall."

That's not going to happen, and this church isn't alone in its heresy, it's part of the herd of heretic secularists who infest these religions, as demonstrated in this article, Methodists propose split over LGBTQ impasse, and this article, Pope is a Heretic Because of Views on Homosexuality and Abortion, Catholic Group Says, and here, Now I Know What's Wrong With Sweden!, and that's a mere token representation of what's going on.  This article, Meet God’s Communists, demonstrates how this occurred saying:

The United States is a deeply religious country. Very early on, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) realized that if the United States was ever to be brought to socialism, religion would have to be harnessed to the task. 

Enter the CPUSA’s Religion Commission, where socialist pastors, religious academics, and laypeople network to spread Marxist ideas through their churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. 

As the United States is primarily a Christian country, the communists began to infiltrate churches, seminaries, and theological colleges even before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

Those so-called "mainstream Christian churches" have been co-opted, at the highest levels, by left wing atheists determined to destroy the foundation for Western culture, Bible based Judaic/Christian values and principles, going back to the beginning of the 20th century by Stalinist agents. What has been the result after all these decades of heretical implementation of politically correct leftist thought?

“We can see how many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization,” he said at a conference in 2013. “They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious, and even sexual … They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex partnerships, belief in God with the belief in Satan.” By succumbing to secularism, he noted on another occasion, the West was trending toward “chaotic darkness” and a “return to a primitive state.”

How do I know these "religionists" are atheists? Because people are what they do.

They've worked diligently to destroy Biblical authority and credibility by siding with "higher critics" of the Bible.  Criticism that's easily overcome by ardent students of history and the Bible, which is what they're supposed to be.  They don't study the Bible, their Seminaries mostly don't teach the Bible, they don't defend the Bible, they don't understand the Bible and they don't believe the Bible. Ask any one of them to intelligently defend against the Theory of Evolution.  It won't happen,  Yet a mere bug man can make a rational, intelligent and science based argument against Evolution that an atheist scientist friend called "brilliant'.

If they work so hard to undermine that which is supposed to be the moral, intellectual, and philosophical foundation of their faith, it simply means they don't believe in their faith, which has to mean they're lying about being believers.  No matter what they publicly proclaim, they're functionally atheists.

Atheists who then claim they do good work! Well, here's the reality of their so-called good works as outlined in Matthew Chapter 7, starting with verse 15:

• 15: “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
• 16. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
• 17. Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
• 18. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
• 19. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
• 20. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
• 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• 22.  Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’
• 23. Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Whether you are a believer or a non-believer, it can't be disputed these wolves have been devouring their flocks of faithful sheep.  Everything they do undermines everything that's foundational to Western civilization.  Stalin would be proud!

But I have no doubt society is now taking, and will continue take, this emotional and intellectual stand: "If this is what you stand for, who needs you?" (That was until this last election.)

Definition leads to clarity! What we need is a good dose of clarity. It's clear, if allowed to continue, they've doomed their religions, Western Civilization and society as a whole, to whatever left wing philosophical flavor of the day that becomes the popular narrative.

They will leave in their wake of heresy, a foundation of quicksand.

 

 

Heretics Leave a Moral Foundation of Quicksand

By Rich Kozlovich

On January 5, 2020 Andrew Harrod posted the article, "The Episcopal Church's Fruits of Heresy" saying:

“This church has about 30 more years before it is dead,” stated one young man at a 2016 forum at the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in Alexandria, Virginia, as quoted in the recent book The Seduction of the Episcopal Church.  Therein Anglican author David Virtue, a longtime critical observer of worldwide Anglicanism, reviews the Episcopal Church’s decades-long fall from grace in an exposé of Christian folly in accommodating a secularized, sexualized modernity.

He goes on to say:

“Spiritual and ecclesiastical death marks the present and future state of this denomination” today as Episcopal Church membership has cratered from a 1966 peak of 3,647,297, to 1,676,349 in 2018.  Particularly the 2003 consecration of noncelibate homosexual V. Gene Robinson as an Episcopal bishop unleashed an “ecclesiastical tsunami wave” and the “worst single outflow of Episcopalians in modern history,” over 100,000......Largely due to his lobbyist “inglorious victory for one man,” the “Church had gone from thoroughly heterosexual to pansexual in one generation,” Virtue notes, a “feat that present day cultural Marxists could only stand back and admire.”...........

The article goes on to describe the depth of heresy to which these Bishops have plunged this church.  The article ends with saying this church will pretty much cease to exist with-in two generations.  That's being optimistic in my opinion, and demographics are going to play a huge, huge, role in the demise of these religions.  He goes on to say:

"now other Christians must heed this writing on the wall."

That's not going to happen, and this church isn't alone in its heresy, it's part of the herd of heretic secularists who infest these religions, as demonstrated in this article, Methodists propose split over LGBTQ impasse, and this article, Pope is a Heretic Because of Views on Homosexuality and Abortion, Catholic Group Says, and here, Now I Know What's Wrong With Sweden!, and that's a mere token representation of what's going on.  This article, Meet God’s Communists, demonstrates how this occurred saying:

The United States is a deeply religious country. Very early on, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) realized that if the United States was ever to be brought to socialism, religion would have to be harnessed to the task. 

Enter the CPUSA’s Religion Commission, where socialist pastors, religious academics, and laypeople network to spread Marxist ideas through their churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. 

As the United States is primarily a Christian country, the communists began to infiltrate churches, seminaries, and theological colleges even before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

Those so-called "mainstream Christian churches" have been co-opted, at the highest levels, by left wing atheists determined to destroy the foundation for Western culture, Bible based Judaic/Christian values and principles, going back to the beginning of the 20th century by Stalinist agents. What has been the result after all these decades of heretical implementation of politically correct leftist thought?

“We can see how many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization,” he said at a conference in 2013. “They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious, and even sexual … They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex partnerships, belief in God with the belief in Satan.” By succumbing to secularism, he noted on another occasion, the West was trending toward “chaotic darkness” and a “return to a primitive state.”

How do I know these "religionists" are atheists? Because people are what they do.

They've worked diligently to destroy Biblical authority and credibility by siding with "higher critics" of the Bible.  Criticism that's easily overcome by ardent students of history and the Bible, which is what they're supposed to be.  They don't study the Bible, their Seminaries mostly don't teach the Bible, they don't defend the Bible, they don't understand the Bible and they don't believe the Bible. Ask any one of them to intelligently defend against the Theory of Evolution.  It won't happen,  Yet a mere bug man can make a rational, intelligent and science based argument against Evolution that an atheist scientist friend called "brilliant'. 

If they work so hard to undermine that which is supposed to be the moral, intellectual, and philosophical foundation of their faith, it simply means they don't believe in their faith, which has to mean they're lying about being believers.  No matter what they publicly proclaim, they're functionally atheists.

Atheists who then claim they do good work! Well, here's the reality of their so-called good works as outlined in Matthew Chapter 7, starting with verse 15:

• 15: “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
• 16. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
• 17. Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
• 18. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
• 19. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
• 20. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
• 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• 22.  Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’
• 23. Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Whether you are a believer or a non-believer, it can't be disputed these wolves have been devouring their flocks of faithful sheep.  Everything they do undermines everything that's foundational to Western civilization.  Stalin would be proud!

But I have no doubt society is now taking, and will continue take, this emotional and intellectual stand: "If this is what you stand for, who needs you?"

Definition leads to clarity! What we need is a good dose of clarity. It's clear, if allowed to continue, they've doomed their religions, Western Civilization and society as a whole, to whatever left wing philosophical flavor of the day that becomes the popular narrative.

They will leave in their wake of heresy, a foundation of quicksand.