Quote of the day
“We welcome homosexuals, we don’t want to exclude people, but we want them to repent and be changed”
- The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali
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Haha, gotta love the Bishy.
GK, I really don’t.
This man is so in tune with ordinary communicants of the anglican church. All the other shepherds are in fact sheep. Sheep in ewe’s clothing.
Homosexuals generate virtually all the sound and fury and have the whole media and political class in their support although the vast majority are repelled by their ostentation and view of human sexuality.
I suspect that the nauseating approaches of the political class to get the homosexual vote will have the opposite effect to the one wished for by Cameron, homosexual MPs, and the government.
Homosexuals are entitled to their freedom of choice, but why cannot they just be grateful for that, and just make some attempt to live quietly like the rest of us? These gay pride marches seem to me little more than a direct moral provocation to the normal population.
This is one of the best bishops the C of E has on offer.
The problem is that with the modern age of science and knowledge, we just don’t need religeon to explain most of the things that we see in our daily lives. Fear is the only thing that religeon can trade on, fear of what happens when we are dead, hence the old line: repent and you will be saved! If I were gay, I’m sure that would encourage me to back to the arms of the estabished church!!
Can’t wait to see what Iain Dale makes of it, should make for interesting reading!
Although, of course, if you take what +Michael is saying literally, their homosexuality doesn’t matter.
Just try the following:
“We welcome thieves, we don’t want to exclude people, but we want them to repent and be changed”
“We welcome traffic wardens, we don’t want to exclude people, but we want them to repent and be changed”
“We welcome Labour voters, we don’t want to exclude people, but we want them to repent and be changed”
All consistent with Christian theology. Regardless of your views of homosexuality, everyone needs to repent and be changed.
Just another form of extremism. The Bishop of Rochester is a dickhead!
Sue,
I fail to see how what he said was ‘just another form of extremism’.
You may not agree with it, but as Charles pointed out, it is entirely consistent with Christian theology.
Unless of course you consider the entire religion of Christianity as ‘just another form of extremism’.
I´m so tired of this kind of declarations! I´ve seen, I´ve heard so many similar to this. I do believe that unless the Church changes their views in basic points they will became a minority in a few years.
Speaking of the Catholic Church, the Pope have already said it: “The catholic church will have to learn to live as a minority.” The truth is that they don´t want to change because they are always going to think that they are right. I mean…took them ages to ask apoligize for the Inquisition.
He is certainly being consistent with theology, but not so consistent with anything that a political leader wants to be seen anywhere near….
I don’t see anything wrong with that quote. It is the nature of Christianity to oppose the sin, not the sinner and whether or not you or I think homosexuality is a sin is irrelevant – the Bishop of Rochester clearly does (and, going by a strict interpretation of the 10 Commandments, God appears to think so too).
Jesus went out of his way to associate with sinners (including tax collectors – socialists, please note: Jesus was not “the first socialist” believing, as he clearly did, that the collecting of tax was a sin against God and that the redistribution of wealth should be entirely voluntary).