From here:
Mr Horrocks, from the Seven Saints Rectory in Farnworth, Bolton, is set to bare all for a TV documentary in a bid to change attitudes towards the naked human body.
The 55-year-old says the Bible celebrates nudity and the sexualisation of bodies is a modern phenomenon which has been manufactured by advertising.
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“I went away and researched the Bible and I found there was a lot of positive stuff – there is nothing condemning simple nakedness. It was part of life at the time of Jesus. It’s something I would’ve loved to have discovered when I was a lot younger.’
At a time when it is tearing itself apart over same-sex marriage, homosexual clergy and women bishops, this is just what the Church of England needs to lend a little sober perspective to its travails: nude vicars.
There is some good news in all this: Rev, Horrocks, you don’t need to worry about anyone sexualising your body; really.
Seemed like a good idea by God, but what does He know anyway?
Reminds me of the story about the vicar who announced to his congregation; “Henceforward I shall wear no clothing to distinguish me from the rest of God’s people in this parish”
Alas, but not defrocked.
Get that man a bathing suit! Better make it a two piece.
This cries out for a burka
Worse thought, he could be going commando under his cassock!
” O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and vain babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge….
by professing it, some have strayed concerning faith…”
2 Timothy 6:20-21 (Christian Conduct in the World)
Self-explanatory.
“God forbid I should glory in anything except the cross of Christ Jesus, and Him crucified.” St. Paul
Self-explanatory