Christmas and Easter bring out the worst in Anglican Church of Canada clergy.
The rest of the year they content themselves by waxing eloquent on the evils of climate change, women’s reproductive rights, using correct pronouns, diversity, inclusion and non-binary gender categories.
The major Christian festivals call for major absurdities.
Thus, we have Rev. Michael Coren, currently employed by the Diocese of Niagara a bastion of deranged theology, advising Christians to see the 1979 film The Life of Brian for their Easter edification.
From here:
There’s one film that I highly recommend to anybody who wants to learn something about Easter. I refer to Monty Python’s “Life of Brian.” Confusion, extremism, religious pedantry, failure to grasp the message and laughter. Humour is big in the Gospels, if only people would understand it. Don’t, whatever you do, opt for Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” It’s more medieval caricature than ancient reality.
In case you haven’t seen it, The Life of Brian is a satire on Christianity, Christians, the church and Jesus. The Monty Python crew denied that it satirized Jesus, but it did.
I have nothing against satire directed at Christians – we do some odd things on occasion – but why would a clergyman point to a parody of his alleged beliefs to convince others of their truth?
When, I wonder, will we see a Monty Python film satirizing the life of Mohamed?
I had to check the link to be certain that this was not an April Fools joke.
Michael Coren is a living demonstration of the biblical metaphor, “unstable as water”. How many religious epiphanies, swings of the pendulum, and wild gyrations has this fellow entertained?
He’s landed in liberal Anglicanism but judging by his apparent disdain toward anyone who takes the Easter event seriously, I will bet dollars to donuts he will shuffle on to something else. Maybe blue-haired, climate-change-fearing, green tea-sipping, kale-munching, mung-bean-shoulder-bag-wearing liberal Buddhism will be the Next Big Thing.
It would be no less absurd to a church actually putting this man in costume to cosplay a Christian clergyman. My goodness.