gleeber
21-Jun-03, 12:33
Once again the Church of England stands accused of hypocrisy.
An openly homesexual priest, living with the same partner for 27 years although now celibate has been appointed Bishop of Reading.
The good and the right of the church are up in arms at the unscriptural activities of Dr Jeffery John not because he used to be a practicing homosexual but because he fails to ask for repentance. He obviously thinks he has done nothing wrong but apparently it says in the bible that same sex sexual relationships are wrong, so thats it, set in stone?
Love the sinner, hate the sin is the cry of the fundamental christian as he tries to justify his camouflaged prejudice and at the same time show compassion and understanding towards his fellow man.
Hopefully the hierarchy of the church will prevail against an archaic and out of touch set of moral values and reinvent their bible with a touch of modern reality.
As a start I would suggest it it embraces modern scientific investigation towards creation and a huministic philosophical approach towards eachother, just loving and accepting people for who and what they are and not what the biblical scholars and writers of 4000 years ago demanded we should be.....on pain of death.
An openly homesexual priest, living with the same partner for 27 years although now celibate has been appointed Bishop of Reading.
The good and the right of the church are up in arms at the unscriptural activities of Dr Jeffery John not because he used to be a practicing homosexual but because he fails to ask for repentance. He obviously thinks he has done nothing wrong but apparently it says in the bible that same sex sexual relationships are wrong, so thats it, set in stone?
Love the sinner, hate the sin is the cry of the fundamental christian as he tries to justify his camouflaged prejudice and at the same time show compassion and understanding towards his fellow man.
Hopefully the hierarchy of the church will prevail against an archaic and out of touch set of moral values and reinvent their bible with a touch of modern reality.
As a start I would suggest it it embraces modern scientific investigation towards creation and a huministic philosophical approach towards eachother, just loving and accepting people for who and what they are and not what the biblical scholars and writers of 4000 years ago demanded we should be.....on pain of death.