Posted on 11/27/2022 1:03:22 PM PST by lightman
A dean at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. came to the defense of a junior research fellow whose sermon last Sunday about Jesus Christ having a "trans body" reportedly left outraged congregants "in tears."
Dr. Michael Banner, the dean of Trinity College, said Joshua Heath raised "legitimate" speculation in his Evensong sermon, during which the researcher claimed from the pulpit of Trinity College chapel that non-erotic portrayals of Jesus' penis in historical paintings "urge a welcoming rather than hostile response towards the raised voices of trans people," according to The Daily Telegraph.
"In Christ's simultaneously masculine and feminine body in these works, if the body of Christ as these works suggest the body of all bodies, then his body is also the trans body," Heath said.
Heath, whose PhD in theology was supervised by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, also claimed that in one of the Medieval paintings he displayed to the congregation, the spear wound in Jesus' side "takes on a decidedly vaginal appearance." In another, he pointed out how the blood from his side flows to his groin.
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Heath's homily during the traditional Anglican service left many in attendance, including children, "visibly uncomfortable," according to an anonymous congregant who fired off a complaint letter to Banner. Shouts of "Heresy!" reportedly rang out in the church as incensed worshipers left in disgust.
"I left the service in tears," the churchgoer wrote to the dean. "You offered to speak with me afterwards, but I was too distressed. I am contemptuous of the idea that by cutting a hole in a man, through which he can be penetrated, he can become a woman."
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Some people on Earth need a sledgehammer to their skulls.
Note the irony that the Evensong homily was delivered on the unabashedly masculine-termed Feast of Christ the KING!
Too quick and easy.
Alternatives:
"The long walk"
Drawing and quartering.
or best of all:
"The Boats"
What is the boats?
Judas Chair is a good one too.
Hope I can watch when this guy tries to enter the Pearly Gates.
A$$hat is basing this theory on a painting or paintings that were made centuries after Christ lived and died and rose again. And the depictions in the painting(s) are of a white European like character. This is torturing logic and reason beyond any belief. If one has to torture logic and reason to this point to prove that homosexuality and transgenderism is acceptable to God...then they know they have not won the battle and are not likely to win the battle for the minds of normal folk.
You forgot a nice long crucifixion.
Why doesn’t he say something about pedo Muhammad?
Fool. He’s not worthy of attention and he’s just looking for a rise
There used to be a solution to those like this.
Dunking worked like this. Put into a chair, and put in the water. If they sunk and drowned, they were not guilty. If they floated, they were guilty and taken out, tongues cut out and burned at the stake.
Was was the absurd Da Vinci Code - based a theory on a painting done 1500+ years later.
The Last Supper was actually a Passover supper and guests are seated around a circular table.
Just another Christ-hating communist disguised as a sheep here.
Why engage crap like this. He’s trolling for reaction and giving it to him just stokes his ego.
Yeah, more people need to be murdered over religion.
well, it is an unnatural man made hole, other than that, feh...
just another leftist narcissist playing to his flying monkeys
Dr. Banner the Useless from left field wasn’t loved as a child, the beat goes on
yawn
Better yet:
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Courtesy of Augusto Pinochet.
The spirit of antichrist is on the rise on these last days. but so is the Spirit of the Lord on the rise as well.
“Where sin abounds grace does yet abound much more”. Romans 5:20.
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