tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484626660177622626.post7788849398421010563..comments2024-03-27T19:54:34.479+00:00Comments on Falling On A Bruise: Female Bishops Get Go-AheadFalling on a bruisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05518409624331248084noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484626660177622626.post-12232467127666434032008-07-08T21:49:00.000+01:002008-07-08T21:49:00.000+01:00I left the Anglican Communion long ago and always ...I left the Anglican Communion long ago and always had a liberal live and let live outlook, yet I understand the conservatives' position. Equality of opportunity is predicated on the assumption that men and women do a given job equivalently. For most things this is true and equality is still a proper goal. But for some things it isn't true, for ex I personally would not want a male therapist or a female physician. It may be that for people of a certain spiritual mind, a woman or a gay man simply cannot believably shepherd the flock any more than a man straight or gay can believably run the daycare centre. To each their own of course, but the Judeo-Christian outlook is fundamentally patriarchal.Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16090153485822745036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484626660177622626.post-89689706218648986592008-07-08T19:46:00.000+01:002008-07-08T19:46:00.000+01:00All i have is the sound of John Cleese turning aro...All i have is the sound of John Cleese turning around to the beard wearing stone throwers and asking "Is there any women here today?"<BR/>A life in the Church sounds as appealing as having your figernails removed with pliers but have to agree with Bill and say if they want it, let them have it. If the Bishops have fallopian tubes shouldn't be the first concern to the CoE in an increasingly secular country.Falling on a bruisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05518409624331248084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484626660177622626.post-87511557753135766862008-07-08T08:13:00.000+01:002008-07-08T08:13:00.000+01:00I don't know why, but when I first heard this stor...I don't know why, but when I first heard this story I started hearing the voice of Bill Hicks in my head, speaking to me from beyond the grave, albeit about a different issue i.e. that of 'gays in the military'...<BR/><BR/>"Anyone DUMB enough to <I>want</I> to be in the military should be allowed in. End of f*cking story. That should be the only requirement."<BR/><BR/>Same sort of thing going on here, I think ;-)Cheezyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10176170186766506070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484626660177622626.post-8637689637193918402008-07-08T07:55:00.000+01:002008-07-08T07:55:00.000+01:00I'm pleased women are getting a fair go - but they...I'm pleased women are getting a fair go - but they are all quite mad, I fear...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2484626660177622626.post-53499017095165707152008-07-08T04:25:00.000+01:002008-07-08T04:25:00.000+01:00"He said Jehovah!"To more seriously comment, I don...<I>"He said Jehovah!"</I><BR/><BR/>To more seriously comment, I don't know how helpful it is for a non-Anglican and certainly a non-Christian to try to interpolate his or her antitheist logic and understanding on a religious matter.<BR/><BR/>For instance, I don't think that there is something fundamentally wrong with a "Bible literalist" view. The Bible can be "taken literally", or if you prefer "understood to be inerrant", in many different ways. There may be a lot of problems with a prima scriptura view that a sola scriptura or other less individually interpretive understanding solves.<BR/><BR/>-NogNoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741030321448255586noreply@blogger.com