The center of resistance against the apocalyptic aliens in THEY LIVE is an Episcopal Church. The people there know the truth, but all they can do is talk about what they should do. They are informed and know what others don't but they are ineffectual. One has to wonder if one of the creators was Episcopalian. Any Episcopalian will know why I say that.
Of course this is a stereotype, but it is not without foundation. I love the Episcopal Church, especially the Book of Common Prayer. It is the Bible turned into worship. At it's best Anglicanism holds in tension a multitude of influences that can produce perhaps the purest Christian vision in the world. At it's worst, those tensive forces ossify and prevent creative action. As with most institutions, the Episcopal Church reaches its best far less than it is dragged into it's worst.
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