{"id":2969,"date":"2009-02-26T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2009-02-26T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:20:03","slug":"according-to-the-anglican-church-of-canada-jesus-is-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/according-to-the-anglican-church-of-canada-jesus-is-a-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"According to the Anglican Church of Canada, Jesus was a racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ACoC has published some Lenten Meditations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is one of them:<\/p>\n

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“… a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.’ He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the houseof Israel.’ But she came and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, help me.’ He answered, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ She said, ‘Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.’ ” – Matthew 14:22-27<\/em><\/p>\n

This not a story for people who need to think that Jesus always had it together, because it looks like we’ve caught him being mean to a lady because of her ethnicity. At first, he ignores her cries. Then he refuses to help her and compares her people to dogs.<\/p>\n

But she challenges his prejudice. And he listens to her challenge and grows in response to it. He ends up healing her daughter. What we may have here is an important moment of self-discovery in Jesus’ life, an enlargement of what it will mean to be who he was. Maybe we are seeing Jesus understand his universality for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This meditation makes a number of important points:<\/p>\n

Jesus did not “always have it together”<\/em>. This is modern vernacular for saying Jesus was not sinless.<\/p>\n

Jesus was prejudiced against a woman because of her race. The woman in question points out his error, Jesus becomes enlightened and understands his “universality for the first time.”<\/em> Thus, Jesus was not God, made mistakes and had to be set straight. The reference to understanding his universality<\/em> is undoubtedly an attempt to point out that, once the woman corrected him, Jesus came to the light as proscribed by 21st Century liberalism: inclusivity is all encompassing, paramount and – well, god.<\/p>\n

This is an officially sanctioned document from the ACoC: it denies both Jesus’ divinity and the fact that he is sinless. The ACoC seems to be going out of its way to present itself as a non-Christian organisation; I think it has succeeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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