{"id":3118,"date":"2009-03-06T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2009-03-06T17:21:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:21:35","slug":"even-evangelicals-can-be-balmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/even-evangelicals-can-be-balmy\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Evangelicals can be barmy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Particularly when they are Anglican. Stephen Sizer<\/a> is an evangelical Anglican priest; he is a member of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans<\/a>, formed at the Global Anglican Futures conference (GAFCON<\/a>) in Jerusalem in June 2008. He has endorsed the Jerusalem Declaration<\/a> and supports the Third Province Movement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, like so many Anglican clergy he cannot resist the temptation to tie his faith to politics; the difference with Stephen is that he is an evangelical<\/em> who is anti-Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last weekend the Revd Stephen Sizer, vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water appeared at an anti-Israel meeting with an Islamist called Ismail Patel. Patel has not only accused Israel of ‘genocide’ and ‘war crimes’ but considers Disney to be a Jewish plot and supports Hamas, Iran and Syria.<\/p>\n

Sizer is a virulent opponent of Christian Zionism and of Israel, which he has said he hopes will disappear just as did the apartheid regime in South Africa. He has also applauded Iranian President Ahmadinejad for having ‘looked forward to the day when Zionism ceased to exist’.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the appearance of an Anglican churchman on a pro-Islamist platform in Britain is a new and significant development. The Church of England recently banned its clergy from joining the BNP; should it not equally ban them from siding with the forces of Islamofascism?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone is entitled to a political opinion, even an Anglican. The problem is, when a church leader makes political pronouncements, the implication is that his faith is informing his politics: in this case, it isn’t. It is even worse when an evangelical – someone who believes that decisions made in this life determine a person’s destination in the next – subverts an important message by supporting a less important one.<\/p>\n

Even more idiotic, Sizer has aligned himself with Islamism, a barbaric, hate filled death cult.<\/p>\n

It is bad enough when the blatantly left wing ACoC and TEC spout this sort of nonsense, but when it comes from within FOCA, it shows that the unhinged can be found just about anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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