Ah, so that’s why Saxon has 8 kids
Me in a handcart
All I can say it what I said on the other thread... Christenings?!
Anyone want to post a video of an Imam slapping a baby, just to even things up?
Religions protect their officials and officiators against the 'outside world' where paedophiles, baby batterers and criminal snake-oil salesmen have no option but to face the consequences of their actions.
The pity of it is that the 'outside world' colludes in this disgusting protectionism because it cannot let go of the myth that there is something 'special' about these organisations, that affords them different treatment.
These gobbledygook peddlers should be made subject to secular law in the same way as everybody else and prosecutions should obtain against those who try to help them evade punishment.
Mr Woppit, other than the gobbledygook comment, I largely agree with the rest of what you say.
No criminal or evildoer in any organisation should be sheltered or be outside the law, and the Church, to its shame, has been guilty of this far, far too often.
It is indeed true that hellfire and damnation has been used from the pulpit – and continues to be by some groups. But as any serious, academic theologian knows, concepts of the afterlife in Christianity are much more nuanced than the heaven-hell dichotomy can possibly express. Likewise the idea of judgement. A colleague of mine does an immense amount of work on the concept of universal apocatastasis as it emerges in Christian Neo-Platonism, and has found very receptive ground among theologians of a number of Christian traditions. Basically, he might say, there is an idea of judgement, but that judgement is of evil itself which is the purged away, making possible the universal embrace of humanity.
Not to sound shitty about this but it's an example where the academics are off in a corner arguing about the inference in the way the word "the" was used while the rest of the employees continue to scream their message.
And here is what the bosses thought was right to send to school kids
That is the polite stuff they came out with that time
From the highest level they are broken.
