Rowan Williams: jackass
The Archbishop of Canterbury submits to haters, blames liberals:
The Archbishop of Canterbury blamed liberal North American churches yesterday for causing turmoil in the Anglican communion by blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay clergy as he attempted to chart a way out of the crisis that has been engulfing the church.
“If North American churches do not accept the need for a moratoria [on same sex blessings and the consecration of gay clergy] we are no further forward,” he said.
With a further melodramatic flourish, he added: ‘We continue to be in grave peril’.
Good.
(Via Philip)
Posted on August 6th, 2008 at 7:43pm under Religion and theology
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I assume it’s the Guardian’s correspondent who doesn’t know moratoria is the plural.
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Who knows? Old Let’s-Give-The-Church-To-The-Tossers’s stupidity makes it a 50/50 bet.
Liberals
Can I note that the internet-driven choice of British lefties to term themselves “Liberals” is a massive error and an active invitation to import the most mental extremes of American wingnuttery?
Because as used by the Archbishop here, “Liberal” doesn’t mean what we think it means – it looks more like it means “Godforsaken homosexuals” to me.
It’s hardly as if we lack a receptive audience for very right wing ideological stupidities – there’s no need to hand these tools the keys to the door.
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But what do you suggest otherwise? I’ve always fancied ‘Dark Harbinger of Righteous Fury’ but I’ve always lacked the drive. And the cloak.
Blimey. That’s the second betrayal in two years. As it was written by the prophet Laban :
“I think he just doesn’t want to go down in history as the bish who split the Anglican Communion. Still wouldn’t trust him an inch. The good news is that now, neither will anyone else.”
http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2006/08/rasputin-may-contain-traces-of.html
“Will he get out of town with his true love, the uber-liberals of the US Episcopal Church, or will he take the steep and narrow way of duty, turn from his path and blow away the idolaters, though they be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore ?
Your guess is as good as mine. What’s a foregone conclusion is that both sides will end up hating him – which in the end is a tragedy. Like Neville Chamberlain, he “ran into tides the force of which he could not measure, and hurricanes from which he did not flinch, but was unable to cope”. ”
http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2007/09/high-noon-for-rasputin.html
Are you a Christian, Justin ? Just wondered which particular angle you’re approaching this from.
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Are you a Christian, Justin ?
Certainly not, thank you. My Catholicism was cured 20 years ago.
My angle is that there are plenty of more important things going on in the world that self-appointed do-gooders should be worrying about other than what men and women do with their genitals.
This makes me life, the Anglican church has soft-focused the bible a little bit more every year, taking all the edges off that nasty piece of work and when a bunch of believers actually want to follow some of the key principles of the bloody book, it causes a ruckus.
Both sidea are idiots but only because they believe in the first place.
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‘We continue to be in grave peril’
Of what? Organised religion collapsing and having to get a proper job where they can’t lecture people and whine and make up stories to fit their prejudices?
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“having to get a proper job where they can’t lecture people and whine and make up stories to fit their prejudices?”
I’m not totally confident that the disappearance of Christianity – or indeed other organised religion – will see the end of the above phenomena.
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