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2018-11-23 Olde Tyme Religion
Archbishop of Canterbury Declares God Gender Neutral
[Breitbart] Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said that God is "not male nor female," after female bishops demanded the Church of England stop referring to God solely as "he."

The head of the worldwide Anglican communion told attendees at a lecture at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square: "All human language about God is inadequate and to some degree metaphorical.

"God is not a father in exactly the same way as a human being is a father. God is not male or female. God is not definable.

"It is extraordinarily important as Christians that we remember that the definitive revelation of who God is was not in words, but in the word of God who we call Jesus Christ. We can’t pin God down."

Professor of Christian history Diarmaid MacCulloch backed Archbishop Welby’s statement, telling The Times that the reason God has been perceived as male is due to "patriarchal assumptions" of early Christian societies of Greece and Rome.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-23 07:40|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Is the Archbishop lost in the pronoun usage weeds?
Posted by JohnQC 2018-11-23 08:33||   2018-11-23 08:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Your Catholicism is a cult. Keep drinking the Popes koolaid until the massive migration of Muslims occupy the Vatican which will be very soon.
Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-11-23 08:51||   2018-11-23 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Why would I care what he says? England is dead to me.
Posted by Slolutle Cloluse3142 2018-11-23 08:55||   2018-11-23 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 This doesn't smell honest enough to dignify with the term "apophatic theology."
Posted by james  2018-11-23 10:13|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2018-11-23 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Same Archbishop that turned that church over to the muzzies.

41 Bible Verses about the Father - KJV
Posted by Woodrow 2018-11-23 10:33||   2018-11-23 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 God also likes to wear a bomb vest, doncha know...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-11-23 10:36||   2018-11-23 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 #2 - not Catholic
Posted by Frank G 2018-11-23 11:50||   2018-11-23 11:50|| Front Page Top

#8 So, the Archbishop and his supporting professor are clarifying their unwarranted assumptions about a subject that they admit they know nothing about.
That certainly straightens things up.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-11-23 12:12||   2018-11-23 12:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Sez Welby, Archbishop of Jezebel,
Pansexual, "Well, to be equable,
There's naught to be said
I can't see from my bed:
The all-abled is therefore in-F-able.
Posted by Albert Hatrack4600 2018-11-23 12:35||   2018-11-23 12:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Archbishop of Canterbury

I liked him better when he was the leader of the Druids.
Posted by SteveS 2018-11-23 12:44||   2018-11-23 12:44|| Front Page Top

#11 The prayer of the posh pompous proddies
(as sung holding hands with the Soddies):
"O lord gosh, be neutered
Because we were Tudored
By cruel public school student bodies!"
Posted by Angong Angaith9048 2018-11-23 12:54||   2018-11-23 12:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Dear Saviour, please bless our dispersal.
Free Byrd; silence Tallis and Purcell.
But first, a few odes
As we burn all the codes.
Three cheers for the church universal!
Posted by Vernal Clunk8329 2018-11-23 13:06||   2018-11-23 13:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, if any entity could be what ever 'gender' it wanted to be, it would certainly be God. I just hope God has a good sense of humor.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-11-23 13:49||   2018-11-23 13:49|| Front Page Top

#14 No wonder Brits quit the church with this kind of leadership.
Posted by jvalentour 2018-11-23 15:28||   2018-11-23 15:28|| Front Page Top

#15 "Your Catholicism is a cult. Keep drinking the Popes koolaid -- Ebbavirt Clunk4147"

sniff... What's that? I smell a bigoted asshole.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-11-23 19:37||   2018-11-23 19:37|| Front Page Top

#16 They're lucky God isn't in the mood to smite anymore. I wonder what the 10th archdruid would say if the preceding 9 got vaporized by lightning any time they walked outside.
Posted by Silentbrick 2018-11-23 19:59||   2018-11-23 19:59|| Front Page Top

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