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…or so claims the Archbishop of Canterbury. As the Church of England suffers yet another crisis, with the entire system being ripped apart over the issues of homosexuality and women bishops, it seems that Dr Rowan Williams has turned to the infallibility of the completely contradictory Jesus.

As his comments in a recent sermon show, he seems to have lost all sense of logic:

Jesus is going to be with those who feel the waterlessness of their position, with those traditionalists feeling the Church is slipping away from them, the landmarks have shifted….

He will be with those in very different parts of the landscape who feel that things are closing in, that their position is under threat and their liberties are being taken away by those anxious and eager to enforce new ideologies in the name of Christ.

He will be with those who feel that their liberty of questioning is under threat, he will be with gay clergy who wonder what their future is in a Church so anxious and tormented about this issue.

Presenting Jesus Christ, the perfect electoral candidate in any situation! Able to have multiple contradicting opinions on absolutely anything! Homosexuals? Surely an abomination but also a reality. Women clergy? Well, my dad says it’s against the law but I’m fine with it…sort of.

In a recent article I briefly discussed and discredited so called “liberal Christians” and how they are worse than fundamentalists. Here we have a prime example. So blinded is Rowan Williams that he wants to unify two rival factions of the Church that have nothing in common. He puts his faith over evidence, and yet arrogantly ignores his faith when it is discredited. The Bible clearly states that homosexuals are an abomination, and that women clergy should not be allowed. It’s not even a confusing and cryptic passage either like the one interpreted as proof of atoms. The archbishop would much prefer to pick and choose his passages from the Bible as he interprets the changing society. This isn’t the type of behaviour you would expect from people who believe the Bible is the word of God; he is inconsistent to the point of arrogance.

I might turn a few heads when I say that I prefer fundamentalists over liberal theists, but it is true and quite logical. They are the ones who are consistent, never changing their view even if new evidence comes along to discredit them. This fact alone makes them easier to fend off and destroy in debates. You have no hope of winning any debate against a liberal Christian who likes to pick and choose parts of the Bible that when together might make a slight amount of sense, but cannot be taken literally without consideration for the entire source. Liberal Christians don’t play by the rules. They lie, they cheat, they manipulate. If you force them to conceed a point, you can bet all the money in the world that next time they will find a passage in the Bible that supports your point, and claim it was their own all along.

What really gets me going in “secular” England is the presence of members of Parliament at the General Synod meeting taking place today. One of these senior government officials I have met in person, and had I come of age at the last general election would have voted for in my constituency. Robert Key, conservative member of parliament for my home town of Salisbury, and whom, 4 years ago, had my support. Of course times have changed since then and I’m now a proud supporter of the Liberal Democrats even though they have no hope of getting power any time soon.

Nevertheless, Mr. Key will be using his Christian background to sway the vote whichever way he wants. I have no idea whether he is a fundamentalist of a liberal although the latter seems more likely given his quote:

MPs don’t see this as a theological squabble in the Church of England. They see it as something much broader.

The UK is in danger of becoming dangerously close to a Christian nation if we continue MPs to serve on official church matters. They don’t get a say in what Muslims do, nor Jews, so why should Christianity be different?

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7491829.stm

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