Posted on 07/11/2022 6:06:46 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Church of England has said that there is “no official definition” of a woman. The Telegraph has the story.
Senior bishops have insisted that until recently, the answer to questions such as what constitutes a woman “were thought to be self-evident”. However, now “additional care” is needed.
The stance comes as the institution struggles to remain relevant and progressive amid declining congregant numbers and in an increasingly secular society.
However, while it has been welcomed by liberal wings of the Church, the comments, from the Bishop in Europe, have provoked criticism – with gender-critical campaigners claiming “whether your starting point is biology or the Bible”, the answer to the question remains the same…
The issue of defining what a woman is emerged in written questions to the General Synod, the Church’s legislative body, in which Adam Kendry, a lay member of the Synod and a representative of the Royal Navy, asked: “What is the Church of England’s definition of a woman?”
In response, Dr. Robert Innes, the Bishop in Europe, said that “there is no official definition”.
The Bishop in Europe, who was also replying in his role as chairman of the Faith and Order Commission, said in his written response: “There is no official definition, which reflects the fact that until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought to be self-evident, as reflected in the marriage liturgy.
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Biology deniers.
Liberalism is the systematic reprogramming of you to reject the self evident things and then give you a smugness about your reasoning skills over those who accept the self evident things in life
I know one when I see them. I think.
When in all history did you gain more converts by watering down the world of God?
There is only one cycle, falling away and then a return to traditional practices.
You don’t stop the falling away by watering down the truth, you only speed up the falling away.
I’d love to snicker about these fools and make snarky remarks about it being long overdue for them to return their medieval cathedrals to the Catholics, but I can’t — not when Catholic prelates in the highest levels in the U.S. and Rome see the Anglican/Episcopalian woke-idiot model as something to be emulated. There but for the grace of God go we.
“Two X chromosomes. Next question.”
L
See, this is why God has to come back.
He’s not going to be all hugs and kisses either.
then what the heck were all those people you burned as “witches”??
It doesn’t know much about anything else either, as far as I can tell.
what constitutes a woman “were thought to be self-evident”
Actually it is pretty easy. Not sure how old I was but i can remember being in kindergarten and somehow I could tell there was difference.
By the time I was in high school I could tell about 99.99% of the time, except for Lola, oh la la Lola.
but even then eventually I got a clue.
Anyone over 21 who is so brain fried that they cannot say should probably immediately submit themselves for sterilization.
The Church of England first allowed the ordination of women to priesthood in 1992, with ordinations commencing in 1994.
"We don't know what they are but they can be priests." I see.
This isn’t surprising, the Limeys are part of the vanguard for woke stupidity.(We import & export that woke stupidity BTW)
Woke stupidity includes the obsessive ideologies of racism, feminist supremacy, sexual weirdos, globalism, and environmental zealotry.
They’re leaders in these fields just like academic America. The only difference is they talk with a faggoty British accent.
Well .... sure ....they don’t know Christ .... so ....
Apostasy
Are they sure that the Earth is Round?...there are many who say it is flat..wouldn’t want them to be offended.
Gee. I knew what a woman is when I was in the 5th grade.
The LORD MOST HIGH SAYS:HE DOES not know who the Church of England is, not does he give a flip because they stopped knowimg HIM decades ago!
lex
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