Here is Rev. Chris Schuller asking us if, after being invited to imbibe marijuana, we are inclined to feel him.
I have to confess, no matter how potent the drug, I am confident I will have little difficulty overcoming the temptation to feel Rev. Chris Schuller.
Unlike so many clerics, at least Reverend Glynn Cardy is clear about who he thinks should be the arbiter of our moral values. Not God; not the Bible – perish the thought; not the church; and not traditional societal mores accumulated over centuries. The guardian of our ethical boundaries is the society one happens to find oneself in as it exists now; tomorrow it could all change.
So today, in the West, since gay marriage is legal the church must get in step with society and accept gay marriage; according to Cardy, this demonstrates that the church has “a strong moral compass.”
If Cardy really insists on taking his moral cues from societal surroundings, in Egypt he would be favour bombing churches, in Iran hanging homosexuals and in Saudi Arabia not allowing women to drive.
The fact that churches holding fast to revealed truth are growing and churches which have surrendered to the Zeitgeist are floundering on the precipice of extinction – in step with their societies – seems to have escaped Rev. Cardy.
From here:
An outspoken Auckland vicar says the Anglican Church is in danger of becoming a moral dinosaur and is increasingly seen as irrelevant with the passing of the Gay Marriage Bill.
Reverend Glynn Cardy said that with the passing of the law, the state had moved well ahead of the church.
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The vicar said his comments were in relation to the church’s position on gay and lesbian people getting married or ordained when they have partners.
“It’s really about when the church gets out of step with society and society loses confidence in the church as having a strong moral compass.
“I think the church for many years has been seen as a model that tries to promote good values in society and I think the church has done that well in times in pointing our different issues of justice and promoting honesty and kindness,” he said.
“I think that society and science have said that gay people should be treated like anyone else and if the church continues to discriminate the confidence society has in it will diminish.”
He said the church could be left behind “as a relic” and needed to change to have society’s confidence as a moral body to be listened to.
It comes from an Anglican vicar rather than Richard Dawkins. The ‘What The F*** Would Jesus Do?’ bumper sticker is a creation of the Reverend Alice Goodman.
Goodman pointed out that she gave Rowan Williams a ride in her car and he didn’t raise an eyebrow. How could she tell – surely they don’t move?
The Venerable John Beer, Archdeacon of Cambridge, reckons ‘Christianity has a long tradition of open debate where people can bring their differing views and share their perspectives.’ I reckon that a vicar who thinks she will stimulate open debate by resorting to a vulgarity, whose overuse has rendered it meaningless, is unhinged.
Rev Goodman: if you really wants to stimulate – not necessarily open – debate, try WTFWMD. M=Mohammed.
From here:
A female vicar yesterday insisted she has not sinned against God by putting an obscene bumper sticker reading ‘WTFWJD’ on the back of her car.
The Reverend Alice Goodman stuck the sticker, standing for ‘What The F*** Would Jesus Do?’, on the back of her red Subaru Legacy – sparking outrage from members of her parish.
But the Reverend insists the sticker is harmless and even the former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams was happy to accept a lift in her car in the past.
The sign – a play on the Christian motto ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ – has offended some of the worshippers in the Fulbourn and Wilbrahams parish in Cambridgeshire where Dr. Goodman is the rector.
But the American-born vicar, 54, claimed she was simply using an Old English word.
She said: ‘F*** is not a blasphemy, it’s a vulgarity, an Old English word.
Much as he would like to, he acknowledged that it is “against Anglican policy”; no doubt his bishop had a quiet word. The wedding in question was in some way “part of a radio competition”, an association that imbued it with ironclad legitimacy.
What is immediately apparent in this interview and, indeed, is apparent in every other instance of a same-sex couple wanting a church – I hate to call it “wedding” – agglutination, is that the desire has nothing at all to do with Christianity. Instead, it is a combination of: a poke in the eye to those who think marriage should be exclusively between people of the opposite sex; a liking of pageantry with ancient roots – a pageantry, though that, while it presents a pleasing aesthetic, has been rendered impotent through being drained of spiritual significance and thus, makes no demands on the participants; and an ecclesiastical stamp of approval on what, deep down, everyone knows is invalid.
Nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever; just like St. Matthews in the City.
He is off to join the Presbyterians. I don’t know whether Anglicans or Presbyterians will be rejoicing; Glynn Cardy has been instrumental in erecting heretical – known in Anglican circles as “controversial” – billboards outside his church.
From here:
The Reverend Glynn Cardy is leaving the inner-city Anglican parish of St-Matthews-in-the-city for St Luke’s, a Presbyterian church in Remuera. He takes up the job in October.
St Matthews has gained a profile for its billboards which often challenge ideas about marriage equality, homosexuality and solo mothers.
Rev Cardy says even though his new congregation will be Presbyterian and not Anglican, the job at St Luke’s was too good to say no to. He says that includes welcoming gay and lesbian people into the congregation.
In a recent interview he denied the personhood of God, making nonsense of Christianity and a mockery of his supposed calling:
There is a strong tendency to make God into a being. This “being” God, albeit with super powers, is usually male, with personality and prejudices.
My experience of God is more akin to a source of energy or power. That power is best known in mutual loving relationships.
Hence the phrase “God is love” is not describing a divine being who loves, but is using the word G-o-d to describe a transformative loving energy.
St Matthew in the City, Auckland is at it again with its Christmas billboards. This time they have decided that Baby Jesus may have been gay. He may not of course.
Similarly, the Reverend Glynn Cardy, rector of St Matthew in the City, may be subject to bouts of schizotypal personality disorder during which he bites the heads off stoats. He may not, of course.
From here:
Jesus may have been progressive in more ways than one, according to a new billboard in Auckland.
The St Matthew in the City billboard, which is released each Christmas, this year depicts the baby Jesus in his crib surrounded by a halo of rainbow colours.
“It’s Christmas,” the billboard reads. “It’s time for Jesus to come out.”
Reverend Glynn Cardy said the sign was about trying to lift the humanity of Jesus.
“The fact is we don’t know what his sexual orientation was.”
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More importantly the billboard was meant to ask whether Jesus’ desires in the bedroom would make a difference for those of faith.
“Would it make a difference if he was gay? Would that change the picture for you? Would it mean what we revere about him changes?”
The only possibly explanation for someone seeing a similarity between having to pass through a security checkpoint and being gassed and incinerated in an oven is that the person is suffering from dementia – or is a rabid Anglican leftist. Tutu is probably both.
From here:
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, who is engaged in a controversial campaign urging divestment from Israel, in London on July 4 was honored for supporting travel to the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, identified in the New Testament as the birthplace of Jesus.
Tutu, who is Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa and became known for his fight against his nation’s apartheid system of racial discrimination, at a London meeting was awarded an honorary “Bethlehem Passport” by the charity Open Bethlehem, of which he is a patron.
The London-based charity’s founder, Leila Sansour, commented that Tutu remains “an inspiration to millions in your dedication to the principles of peace, reconciliation and freedom. We remember your certainty that ‘we will all be free’ as we struggle for a Palestinian state, but we also remember that this state is only worth the struggle if it remains open, democratic and teaches respect for human rights.”
Tutu said that he was “very sorry you have had to endure all this suffering. It almost seems endless but it will end. At home for so many years it looked like the apartheid system would never end. But it did. The Jews thought the Holocaust would never end but it did. They did eventually come into their own land once again.”
He added, however, that Jews “are inflicting the same suffering they experienced on others” in terms of creating armed checkpoints through which Palestinians must pass and security operations against Palestinian areas.
Rev. Ragsdale is Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School, a seminary of the Episcopal Church. She is a lesbian and in 2011 married another woman. In 2009 she declared that abortion is a blessing.
She was recently interviewed by Laura Ingraham and apparently, she still thinks abortion is a blessing. Having an abortion – even a late term abortion – is “health care” and is to be regretted only in the same sense as a heart operation is to be regretted.
Is this woman mad, evil, deluded, possessed or a combination of all four? I have no idea – you decide. One thing is certain: she should not be an Anglican priest, let alone Dean of a seminary.
Imagine that.
From here:
THE chaplain at Melbourne’s most prestigious Anglican school has spoken out against the way religion is taught in Victorian government schools, saying their classrooms should not be used for ”conversion”.
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While proselytising is supposed to be forbidden, a recording recently emerged of a speech by Access Ministries chief executive Evonne Paddison, in which she stressed the need to ”go and make disciples”.
She also said: ”Without Jesus, our students are lost.”
Her comments sparked outrage and have prompted an investigation by both the state and federal governments.
Mr Noone said the statement that children would be lost without Jesus revealed Dr Paddison’s theology and educational philosophy.
‘The statement is claiming a lot and it is manifestly not true, however I don’t doubt that it forms the basis of why she does what she does,” he wrote in Melbourne Grammar’s newsletter. ”There is a certain kind of evangelical Christian who believes they have the truth and a serious duty to tell everyone else.”
Well, Rev. Noone, if you think the statement ”Without Jesus, our students are lost.” is “manifestly not true”, why are you a member of a profession whose job it is to proclaim that it is true?
Oh, I get it, you are a member of the fifth column gaytheists who have infiltrated the Anglican church in order to turn it into the people’s socialist lawn bowling collective.
Life is so unfair.
From here:
An Anglican rector from London has been banned from working as a priest for two years after he was found guilty of sexually propositioning two gay servicemen.
Father David Gilmore, of St Anne’s Church, Soho, in the West End of London, has been removed from office and prohibited from exercising ministry as a priest for two years following a hearing of a church disciplinary tribunal, the Diocese of London said.
The rector was accused of conduct “inappropriate for a clergyman” including making indecent sexual propositions to two men, named only as A and B, who were staying overnight at his rectory in December 2009.
The tribunal was told the rector had asked the men, who were in London for a conference of lesbian and gay members of the Armed Forces, to sleep with him in his bed.
Mr Gilmore was also found to have chosen to enter A’s bedroom naked when it was “unnecessary” for him to do so, and when he knew that sexual activity was taking place between the two men. Both men left before breakfast and made written complaints after the incidents, the tribunal was told.
The questions that really demand an answer are:
What necessity could there have been for Rev. Gilmore to enter A’s bedroom naked? Had he lost his jammies?
Why doesn’t Rev. Gilmore get himself a reliable, stable monogamous man that he can marry and wander around naked with ad nauseum? Then he could demand a generous pastoral response from the church. That’s what other Anglican priests do.
Why is the suspension only two years? Is the church giving him that long to find a stable, monogamous, homoerotic paramour who is not a serviceman?
Who could possibly argue that repealing DADT was a good idea? We already have homosexual members of the armed forces corrupting upright Anglican clergymen by tempting them to wander naked into their bedrooms. Repealing DADT could be the end of the Anglican church.
Why did the servicemen complain? Was the sight of Rev. Gilmore naked that shocking?
It could have been.
The doughty Rev. Gilmore is no stranger to fighting for sexual anarchy: he appeared in court to lobby for keeping Soho brothels open:
A RECTOR has come to the rescue of a group of prostitutes who face having their Soho brothel closed.
The Rev David Gilmore, from St Anne’s Anglican Church in Soho, was called to court over the closure of two flats used by prostitutes.
And was successful. He probably didn’t appear in court naked, though.
I know it’s a tired, worn out cliché but I can’t help it: who could make this stuff up?
