{"id":19108,"date":"2013-04-01T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19108"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:51:48","slug":"justin-welby-thinks-the-church-must-disagree-gracefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-thinks-the-church-must-disagree-gracefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby thinks the church must disagree gracefully"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Church of England must show it can manage disagreement “gracefully” over issues such as women bishops and gay marriage, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned.<\/p>\n

The Most Reverend Justin Welby said the Church faced a “challenge” to show the rest of society that its members can hold different views but still remain “gracefully and deeply committed to each other”.<\/p>\n

“We need to understand reconciliation within the Church as the transformation of destructive conflict, not unanimity,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t mean we all agree, it is that we find ways of disagreeing, perhaps very passionately but loving each other deeply at the same time, gracefully and deeply committed to each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is all very well for those who are adherents of the same faith and, thus, members of the same church. It is not the case for the division created by liberals who reinterpret the Bible to question the physical resurrection of Jesus, his virgin birth, his atoning sacrifice on the cross and, of course, \u00a0the accommodation of homosexual activity as something that can be blessed by the church.<\/p>\n

Such liberals have established a new \u2013 or reanimated an old pagan \u2013 religion, one which they call \u201cChristian\u201d to deceive the unwary, but which, with its eco-babble, pre-eschatological utopia aspirations and sexual obsessions, has more in common with the Marxist-Leninist branch of a fertility cult than it does with orthodox Christianity.<\/p>\n

With such, there is no disagreeing \u201cgracefully.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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