Friday, 17 October 2025

A(wo)men

Let he who is without brains cast the first stone and cast the Christians do all in the name of their Lord Jesus Christ, who, unless I’m grossly mistaken, was actually rather keen on tolerance and forgiveness and turning the other cheek.
You’d have thought human beings had evolved beyond this kind of idiocy but since Christian's don’t believe in evolution, I guess they’re exempt but what would Jesus make of Sarah Mullally becoming the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury?
If he is anything like Paul The Apostle he certainly wouldn't be laughing his halo off, more like standing there indignantly stamping his feet, well maybe not physically stamping his feet, not what with his stigmata and everything but metaphorically anyway because it states quite clearly in the Bible, filed under 1 Timothy 2:12, with Paul instructing his guys that:  'I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she must remain quiet'.
That the principal leader of the Church of England does not have the requisite things hanging between her legs has upset a number of Christians, the peaceful and loving community only allowed female Bishops in 2015  and that was only after bodging the vote to state that while a female bishops may be available, every parish could request they don't send her to them.
So what do Christians have against women anyway? Obviously Paul didn't like them cluttering up the place looking untidy and exercising authority and i did hear a particularly flowery response that the interplay between men and women is an echo of the love between God and the church, with God in the masculine role and Church leaders are his representatives as he speaks to his bride and to ordain women is to lose some of our understanding of the love of God.
Absolute horse hockey of course but it has also said that Sarah Mullally supports SHOCK HORROR...same sex marriage and even proposed prayers for same-sex couples which had the men clutching their bibles to their chests and swooning in horror as quite clearly the Church doesn't even try to hide its homophobia after all the BIble states: ‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads' but then the Bible also says people who work on Sunday should be killed so not exactly a hotbed of rationality and inclusiveness.
What i don't understand how, after all this time, nobody high up in the Church hasn't looked at what was said and said: 'You know, that Paul, bit of a dick wasn't he' and ignored it but then i never wrapped my head any religion that preaches a message so important that it's most ardent followers start killing anyone who don't want to hear it.

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