I'm not sure what has happened to him, but it seems to be in concert with the spiritual fall of his two brothers, David Bentley Hart and Addison Hodges Hart, who seem to have departed from orthodox Christianity for some sort of perennialism. Robert, while apparently still orthodox and a priest canonically resident in the Anglican Catholic Church, is going into some dark, angry place. He seemed to be a mostly kind, reasonable and scholarly fellow when I first met him online back around 2008. His older articles at the blog The Continuum are still today very valuable to those who are seeking to learn about Continuing Anglicanism, but something seems to have happened to his spirit a few years ago, and these screenshots are indicia. Nowadays, in my experience anyway, he just snarls at his critics and rarely if ever engages them rationally. I know several priests who have blocked him on Facebook. I had to remove him from my own Facebook discussion group on Continuing Anglicanism. Today I deleted the link to The Continuum blog from my sidebar and a few other references to him in my blog articles. (It's not because The Continuum isn't an excellent Anglican blog. It is. It's just that I no longer want to send people his way.)
Where is his Ordinary in all this?
As these recent screenshots from his Facebook page indicate, he apparently has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndome (TDS), hates Republican voters and has absolutely no sense of priestly bearing.
Are all his parishioners Democrats? Are they all TDSers like him? That's hard to imagine since the Anglican Catholic Church and other Continuing Anglican jurisdictions tend to be very politically conservative. Since I live in North Carolina I just might pay a visit to his parish St. Benedicts in Chapel Hill one day to observe, hoping he doesn't throw me out as a "Trumpublican piece of $#!+".
Let us pray he snaps out of it. Seriously.
P.S.: If anyone of you out there thinks that Christians who are critical of Anthony Fauci are guilty of bearing false witness, read RFK Jr. on the matter. This is the definitive work on Fauci's corruption. He is not a good man, and the fact that Fr. Hart thinks otherwise is illustrative of his overall political delusion.
