The Anglican Primates’ meeting, apart from producing copious travel related\u00a0 quantities of carbon dioxide – a gas readily found in nature, at least – also resulted in wind of a less wholesome kind.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n “By God’s grace we strive to express \u2026 unity in diversity which is the Spirit’s work among the churches of the communion and the community of primates,” the document says. “In our common life together we are passionately committed to journeying together in honest conversation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A phrase like that, apart from setting the teeth of every right-thinking person on edge, is a sure sign that someone is <\/em>trying to pull the wool over your eyes. And they are: the Primates representing the majority of Anglicans didn\u2019t show up so, obviously, they won\u2019t be journeying together <\/em>in any sort of conversation<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Primates deliberately avoided talking about the issue that is dividing their church, preferring, instead, to concentrating on trying to decide what a church is, on mouthing the expected platitudes, pontificating on anthropogenic global warming even though it may not exist and deploring the murder of Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato <\/em>as violence against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community <\/em>even though it may not be.<\/p>\n The obvious thing they didn\u2019t talk about was winning souls for Christ; but why would they? \u2013 they are Anglican Primates and, as such, far too sophisticated to fall for that kind of fundamentalist hooey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Anglican Primates’ meeting, apart from producing copious travel related\u00a0 quantities of carbon dioxide – a gas readily found in nature, at least – also resulted in wind of a less wholesome kind. From here: “By God’s grace we strive … Continue reading