Justin Welby wants us to give up cynicism for Lent

I expect what he means by that is that he would like us to stop thinking that nothing he says or does can be taken at face value because, like any good closet liberal, he will cheerfully dissemble until he gets his way.

I have an idea: I will continue to believe that nothing Welby says or does can be taken at face value but, during Lent, I will call it Good Cynicism. That way, everyone is happy.

From here:

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s urged fellow leaders in the Church of England to give up cynicism for Lent and to show more love towards those they disagree with.

Speaking at the start of a meeting by General Synod, Most Rev Justin Welby admitted members disagree on issues such as “inclusion”.

He said: “As we journey towards Lent some of you may be considering what you might give up during the penitential season.

“I urge you to consider especially as members of General Synod giving up cynicism and renewing love for those with whom you and I differ.”

7 thoughts on “Justin Welby wants us to give up cynicism for Lent

  1. Justin Welby has by his statement confirmed the fact that he is no longer a Christian but a converted apostate.

    Lent is indeed a time for each and every one of us to review our lives and practices and to repent. We are not called to worship the “god of political expediency” but the true GOD and to genuinely seek to do HIS will.

  2. Most Reverent Justin,
    Do people we should try to get along with include Satan? Being cast out of heaven does make him a refugee and a victim!

  3. Odd. Given that the Cynics of the Hellenistic Stoa were globalist individualists for whom the soul was only material, who also professed poverty, what possibly could be the basis of the Lenten objection?
    Perhaps that they also inveighed against sexual immorality:
    as per ‘UK Compulsory Sex-Ed For Children To Feature Homosexuality, Sex Swaps, FGM’
    v. at the despised ‘Breitbart’. the recent CoE Synod raising no objections.
    That leaves the EUpicureans;
    or true Christians.

  4. David, I love this blog, and visit it every week – but I would encourage you to think about whether it’s still a good use of your time. Exposing the hypocrisy of the Anglican Church of Canada is hilarious, but these days it simply parodies itself for the five people who still care. I think you can declare mission accomplished.

    Instead of spending its time laying bare the stupidity of Anglican leaders, I’d really like to see this blog focus on the work of those brilliant souls in the Anglican Network and elsewhere preaching the Gospel to a fallen world. That would be a truly inspiring thing, and they lack superannuated diocesan and national newspapers to tell their story.

    • Thank you for that generous assessment and suggestion.

      Sad to say, I fear I am genetically predisposed to carry on as I have been. Who am I to argue with the way God made me?

      I do agree, though, that ANiC could benefit from a newspaper; I’m quite certain I’d be that last choice to edit it.

      • Your reporting finally convinced me that the Anglican Church of Canada will forever find ways to advance innovations which just a decade ago everyone would have rejected as abhorrent – their stealth reception of euthanasia being only the most recent – while pretending that nothing has changed. It really is a case of the boiling frog. There is no ACNA presence where I live, however, so it’s difficult to have a vision for an alternative Anglicanism that isn’t betraying Christ; I’m now discerning Eastern Orthodoxy.

        You have some serious influence with your writing: use it wisely.

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