Popular culture would have it that Truth is relative and subjective: you have your Truth, I have mine and we can all get along.
Now Reality itself has suffered the same fate in the Anglican Church of Canada. According to Bishop Susan Bell, there is no objective Reality. Each diocese “describes its own reality”.
From here:
The bishop of Diocese of Niagara says she isn’t surprised the Anglican Church of Canada voted against recognizing same-sex marriage.
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“I really lament the pain for our LGBTQ2S+ community,” says Bell, “and for everybody who desired this change.”
But she says that, “We went into the vote with something in our back pockets.”
She’s talking about a document that was drafted before the vote, that allows each diocese to decide individually if it wants to recognize same-sex marriage.
The Niagara diocese already recognized same-sex marriage, before the vote, but Bell says she understands that there are some dioceses and bishops that have not gone ahead with that.
She says the document allows each diocese to describe their own reality.
For any person claiming to be Christian there is only one reality – accepting the GOSPEL and adhering to THE WORD. The ACoC – now the APOSTATE CHURCH OF CANADA – is riddled with apostates wearing purple shirts and white collars and until there is a genuine cleanup and return to THE GOSPEL it will continue in its decline.
Words have meaning.
I’m thinking that gay activists and allies, etc., because they have adopted their own reality about what marriage is, can hold multiple definitions of what marriage is. This allows them to confidently say we should all live together in harmony, since the meaning of the word marriage isn’t so important. They say, You can have your meaning, and we’ll have our meaning, and it’ll all be fine.
In contrast, for most readers of this blog, marriage participants can only be a man and a woman. Any other option does not fit into the definition, and so can’t be considered marriage. Because language does have awkwardnesses, we sometimes end up using “…” to provide clarity: the so-called gay “marriage” motion. This allows us to talk about what is going on, without fully acknowledging the alternate, incorrect definition.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master— that’s all.”
But to be honest, Brian, I don’t think there IS contentment with the multiple definition thing. I think that’s simply a way for those who wanted a Yes vote to move forward with what they want to do in light of what has happened. I think the goal was (and is) to have one definition that obliterated gender roles, and then to go on to remove those who are not wholeheartedly in support of the development.
She is a hypocrite. If the vote had passed than she would be demanding that everyone in the AcoC be fully accepting and supporting of her sin. But that she lost she is unwilling to accept that her sin must now be rejected by everyone. Rather she now pulls a rainbow rabbit out of her hat as justification for her to continue in her sin as some sort of local option.
I am disgusted!
This is the same as beating a dead horse. The ACofC is in such rapid decline it will soon have no more significance than a Service Club currently has.
And I thought her and the rest of these bishops were just in another universe, and there she goes and blows their cover by admitting they actually are from another reality altogether.
One can only hope that they don’t apply that attitude to the real sciences. Gravity bites.
The gravity in this case will be loss of financial support, which had already started. Vote with your wallet, since the Synod vote meant nothing. These people will be in charge as long as their salaries are being paid. Vote with your feet. When the bricks and mortar are gone, they will have nowhere to proclaim their erroneous teachings. Time to wake up, we’ve just been shown their true colours.
Yes, indeed there will and should be a loss of financial support but the real tragedy is the fact that these so-called bishops will lead many from the truth and will continue in their apostasy with no consequences for their lack of Christian leadership.
But what’s astonishing and aggravating to me is how they will spin it. You and I know that the decline has been steadily increasing in pace with various liberalizing trends for many years. Each indication that the ACoC has abandoned biblical Christianity has led a new wave of parishioners to leave with broken hearts. But I have already seen spin coming out suggesting that the No vote is the cause of a new wave of decline. A convenient narrative twist.