text: Whether intended or not, this bishop is a textbook case with the growing problems in the church.   I can't help but get the sense that if he's a shepherd, he's one who systematically goes through his flock, kicking out those sheep who have tangled hair, perhaps a broken horn, or maybe whose coloring is off a bit.  This is such a far cry from the way Jesus used the analogy of a good shepherd, that perhaps it's time for the church to simply drop all of those Gospel passages about shepherds from the liturgical rotation cycle.
  
  Yes, in an ideal world, we would all be ideal people.  But in such an ideal world, there would have been no need for the incarnation.  
  
  So the way so many of these guys set up barriers in the form of checkboxes, litmus tests (etc.), I think the concept of Pharisee fits quite well..