Archbishops unite against the BNP
The Church's view on the BNP is laudable. However the Church would have a far greater moral platform if its own conduct towards women and gays didn't display some of the same irrational thinking as racism. The question is not so much if Jesus would support the BNP, as whether he'd feel comfortable supporting the Church!
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Now, see, speaking as a lesbian and as someone not religious, I think you have a fair point! I mean, I hate the BNP and what they stand for, but I don't think the church are any better with their view on homosexuality! I think with religion it's open to personal interpretation... which is why there is an evolution of islamic terrorists, because some people take the 'word' of the Quran too literally.
ReplyDeleteSeemingly, I think this is the case with the church and some of its views on women and gays... taken far to literally. In perhaps the same reasoning Jehovah's witnesses refuse blood transfusions, due to something like one phrase somewhere in the bible, which they take literally so as to refuse such treatment in lifesaving situations, when the rest of christianity thinks it's taken to the extreme and don't agree with it. Yet apparently their view on homosexuality is a fixed one. Which is just madness when there is no black and white in the world we live in today! OK... rant over :)
Ah yes, rules and religion. It is interesting how different religions all agree on some things, like their aversion to drugs and gambling. I think they just don't like the competition! Even religions most antagonistic towards each other (you know who you are) often actually agree on a wide range of issues. It's amusing to see how rules are interpreted and how workarounds are put in place to accommodate modern living. Why not simply acknowledge that the rules were invented in a very different time and focus on the only truly important precondition of membership, belief in a God?
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