Sunday, July 06, 2008
Church tourism plan put to Synod
A proposal to open up hundreds of parish churches to tourists is to be discussed by the Church of England's ruling body, the General Synod. It calls for every diocese to have a tourism officer dedicated to expanding visits to church buildings.
IMO: That plan seems much more relevant than people want to think. Why ? Well why do women clamor to be Bishops ? Why don't homos want to join MCC ? Why do conservatives want to keep the Church just as it was ? I'll tell you why, and Jesus would probably say the same. It's the cash-nexus, the bricks and mortar, the real looking institutions of solid brick and stone. People are looking for reality in bricks and mortar - and when they die, God will probably say - if that is all you want, go to Northern Rock Bank, and be obliterated along with them. Quakers survive without a lot of that twaddle, and so do Buddhists. My own preference, Hinduism, to some extent goes further - it uses concrete reality in its idols. But Christian churches are heading for what Islam could be said to have reached - hypostatisation.
Alison Ruoff believes the Labour Government is soft-pedalling on Muslims who don't want to integrate with other communities in Britain. Ruoff earlier this year called for a halt to mosque building in Britain. the Jerusalem meeting she said the Archbishop of Canterbury had pointed to the inevitability that elements of Sharia would be introduced in the UK. She said the leaders of the church hadn't done enough to put the church message across.
IMO: Exactly. As with so-called "gay rights" which are so often just "unjustified gay spin" which is, to put it simply, buggering the Anglican Church, so too is Islam. Obviously, all the many conflicting views of Islam can't be right, and it is not faith, but money, which spreads Islam today. So just as women Bishops are being locked out by bricks and mortar and filthy lucre, so too is the Anglican Church drifting to hypostatisation because of incorrect views of Islam being accpeted as the norm. I am the last person to deny many great things of Islam, in for example medieval modal logic, like the work of Al-Qazwini Al-Katibi, but the watchword of Islam today is too often 'giimme gimme gimme' with disastrous effects on modern Islam - and indirectly on Christianity too.
A proposal to open up hundreds of parish churches to tourists is to be discussed by the Church of England's ruling body, the General Synod. It calls for every diocese to have a tourism officer dedicated to expanding visits to church buildings.
IMO: That plan seems much more relevant than people want to think. Why ? Well why do women clamor to be Bishops ? Why don't homos want to join MCC ? Why do conservatives want to keep the Church just as it was ? I'll tell you why, and Jesus would probably say the same. It's the cash-nexus, the bricks and mortar, the real looking institutions of solid brick and stone. People are looking for reality in bricks and mortar - and when they die, God will probably say - if that is all you want, go to Northern Rock Bank, and be obliterated along with them. Quakers survive without a lot of that twaddle, and so do Buddhists. My own preference, Hinduism, to some extent goes further - it uses concrete reality in its idols. But Christian churches are heading for what Islam could be said to have reached - hypostatisation.
Alison Ruoff believes the Labour Government is soft-pedalling on Muslims who don't want to integrate with other communities in Britain. Ruoff earlier this year called for a halt to mosque building in Britain. the Jerusalem meeting she said the Archbishop of Canterbury had pointed to the inevitability that elements of Sharia would be introduced in the UK. She said the leaders of the church hadn't done enough to put the church message across.
IMO: Exactly. As with so-called "gay rights" which are so often just "unjustified gay spin" which is, to put it simply, buggering the Anglican Church, so too is Islam. Obviously, all the many conflicting views of Islam can't be right, and it is not faith, but money, which spreads Islam today. So just as women Bishops are being locked out by bricks and mortar and filthy lucre, so too is the Anglican Church drifting to hypostatisation because of incorrect views of Islam being accpeted as the norm. I am the last person to deny many great things of Islam, in for example medieval modal logic, like the work of Al-Qazwini Al-Katibi, but the watchword of Islam today is too often 'giimme gimme gimme' with disastrous effects on modern Islam - and indirectly on Christianity too.
# posted by uv : 5:52 AM
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