Non-mainstream feminist mythology
If the Bible is the Word of God, it appears the Anglican Church knows better than God Himself.
Anyone remember anything about unisex pronouns mentioned in the Bible?
Society has to deal with its own demons. There will always be bad people. Changing a pronoun is not going to make any difference; and may do as much harm as good here.
This is just one more attempt to demonize men by tacitly associated the ugly crimes and behaviours of a miniscule few with the male pronoun.
Like most thinking people, I've questioned the contents of the Bible all my life in many ways.
This sort of interpretation, issued by leaders of a respected church, does nothing but alienate more people from Christian values by ridiculing those same Christian values.
(see some of the comments from the UK at Mens Issues Online, Message No 22681 begins the thread)
Anyone remember anything about unisex pronouns mentioned in the Bible?
Society has to deal with its own demons. There will always be bad people. Changing a pronoun is not going to make any difference; and may do as much harm as good here.
This is just one more attempt to demonize men by tacitly associated the ugly crimes and behaviours of a miniscule few with the male pronoun.
Wednesday October 4, 2006No kidding. Even a blind squirrel couldn't find this acorn.
Male Pronoun for God Encourages Wife Beating Say Anglicans
By Hilary White
LONDON, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews. com) – In a new twist on an old feminist cliché, leaders in the Church of England have told their parishioners not to use the male pronoun for God because doing so encourages wife-beating.
The Daily Mail reported Monday that a report and guidelines issued by the Church of England says that conceiving of God as masculine tends to “reinforce abuse” of women by their husbands.
The Christian understanding of God as Father and Lord, held by all Christians until the beginning of the incursions of feminist thought, the report called “misguided" and said it is a distorted version of Christian belief. This distortion, the report said, specifically includes the understanding of God as it is derived from the Bible.
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Today’s Daily Mail carried the outraged responses of Christian clergy who said the report is itself a grave distortion of the true Christian doctrine of self-denial and sacrifice.
Simon Calvert of the evangelical Christian Institute think tank, said, “They appear to suggest seriously that we should ditch many centuries of Judaeo-Christian teaching because of some half-baked feminist theory.”
Like most thinking people, I've questioned the contents of the Bible all my life in many ways.
This sort of interpretation, issued by leaders of a respected church, does nothing but alienate more people from Christian values by ridiculing those same Christian values.
(see some of the comments from the UK at Mens Issues Online, Message No 22681 begins the thread)
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