{"id":28496,"date":"2020-09-19T21:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28496"},"modified":"2020-09-19T21:24:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T01:24:45","slug":"extreme-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/extreme-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when the church decides to worship diversity rather than God?<\/p>\n<p>Jesus with breasts and beard dancing under a rainbow:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28497\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/33304952-8744095-image-a-11_1600354651118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/33304952-8744095-image-a-11_1600354651118.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/33304952-8744095-image-a-11_1600354651118-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/33304952-8744095-image-a-11_1600354651118-500x187.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8744095\/Churchs-woke-advert-featuring-bearded-Jesus-womens-breasts-sparks-outrage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Church of Iceland&#8217;s new &#8216;woke&#8217; ad welcoming people to Sunday School has sparked outrage after it featured a bearded Jesus Christ with breasts, makeup and a dress.<\/p>\n<p>The advert, which apparently shows Jesus shaking his &#8216;breasts&#8217; while dancing under a rainbow, appeared on the National Church&#8217;s Facebook page on September 11.<\/p>\n<p>The advert has since been deleted from the Church&#8217;s page, but will be depicted on buses in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik for at least another two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Iceland&#8217;s new &#8216;woke&#8217; ad welcoming people to Sunday School has sparked outrage after it featured a bearded Jesus Christ with breasts, makeup and a dress<\/p>\n<p>The Church said in a statement: &#8216;The 2020 Assembly of the National Church regrets that the picture of Jesus in a Sunday school advertisement has hurt people. The goal was to emphasise diversity, not to hurt people or shock them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Petur Georg Markan, media representative for the Church of Iceland, said that is positive for Jesus Christ to appear in different forms and that the church celebrates diversity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The comedy in all this, if there is any, is that for years Christians have had to put up with sacrilegious tripe from halfwits posing as artists: piss Christ, Madonna in elephant dung, and so on. Now we have to put up with sacrilegious tripe from halfwits posing as clergy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when the church decides to worship diversity rather than God? 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