I pointed out some of the problems with the hard-line and mistaken theology of the bishop-designate of Peterborough a few weeks back. Andrew Brown today points out the problem is even more serious. It’s not just hard-line evangelicalism the bishop-to-be espouses, but brain dead fundamentalism.
I rang him up, and asked him what exactly he meant. Did he believe, for example, that God had in fact caused the sun to stand still so that Joshua could continue to slaughter the Amorites, as recounted in the book of Joshua. There are some fundies who claim this really happened. The new bishop is more cautious. “I wasn’t there”, he told me. “It isn’t something that couldn’t have happened because science says it couldn’t have happened. I’m not saying it did happen, but if we say it couldn’t have happened, we’re not doing justice to the text.”
Sod the laws of physics and the ethics of genocide: doing justice to the text is where we’re at.
The number of dioceses where I would want to serve, or which would be happy to have me, shrinks again.
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Or increases … you might like to consider a diocese in a place where the sun shines before Britain sees it, and longer than in Britain, and nothing stands still for long
(PS Will forgive you if you interpret this to mean ‘Australia’!)
lol
How do they appoint these barking idiots?
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