The Church of England has written 10 commandments for the digital age; that should really be “0000 1010 commandments for the digital age” but we’ll let that slide.
The Church is encouraging people to sign their agreement to this digital charter here.
Violators will have their rudeness summarily expunged:
The Church’s and Archbishops’ Communications teams may take action if they receive complaints or spot inappropriate, unsuitable or offensive material posted to the national social media accounts. This may include deleting comments, blocking users or reporting comments as appropriate.
Justin Welby has conveniently summed up the 10 digital commandments in this way:
“Social media has transformed the way we live our lives. As Christians we are called to engage in a way which is shaped by the example of Jesus.”
I found this very inspiring so I though I would try it out. Here goes:
But woe to you, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
Woe to you, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
Woe to you, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
I’m looking at you, Anglican Church of Canada bishops.
I think I’m getting the hang of it.
‘The Church of England has written 10 commandments for the digital age; that should really be “0000 1010 commandments for the digital age” but we’ll let that slide.’
(But I won’t ..) I thought in this age of gender diversity, fluidity, and whatnot, that strict binary was anathema.
And, er, (.. can’t resist ..) could not leading zeros be taken as coded snide reference to many in the episcopate ?
I did consider writing X’0A’ so that those suffering from binarophobia would not have to avert their gaze.
Certainly a very powerful message from our friend Welby – ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !
By his actions Justin Welby has shown himself to be an apostate and his so-called leadership in the Anglican Communion is tragic as he is leading the Communion to the worship of that detestable “god of political expediency”. The appointment of the ABC should never be subject to the approval of the civil government as the civil government has very little, if any interest in the GOSPEL.
How to laud this hi-tech ‘Tower’ of suppression of inconvenient Scriptural Truth?
Much as our LORD did – as aptly quoted above; then in His footsteps, Andrew Melville, faithful intermediary for Sola Scriptura in both Realms, when he was confronted as being of too fiery a temper:
“If you see my fire go downward, set your foot upon it;
but if it go upward, let it go to its own place.”