Dr Spacely-Trellis, call your service

It's an historic moment as the go-ahead Church of England bellows "screw Christian doctrine!" and thunders off into irrelevancy.

Expect joyous guitar strumming and tambourine banging at churches interfaith and non-faith, LGBTQQSAAATSQED-friendly, vegan, non-judgmental, dolphin-safe, gun and nuclear-free, carbon-free, sustainable community centres* across Britain.

*Those that still haven't been turned into coffee shops or mosques, of course.

A Brush With Sanity

An Episcopal priestess "female priest" and walking contradiction in terms was finally defrocked because she refuses to renounce Islam.

Maybe she should have read the job description a little more closely.

Bye Bye, Bishop

The Bishop of Rochester is announcing that he is retiring ten years early to concentrate on helping Christians persecuted in Muslim countries and elsewhere.

While this is a laudable mission, I can't help but be disappointed, as his grace was a far better candidate for Canterbury than that bearded platypus that wears the mitre now.

When Doctrine Bows to Ideology

BBC headline:

Church vote backs women bishops

Memo to the C of E: Last one out, please turn off the lights.

Lord Summerisle, Call Your Service

The Bishop of Stratford places global-warming "deniers" on the same moral plane as Austrian child-abusers who commit kidnapping and rape of their own families over a period of decades.

Good to see that the church is getting away from all that gospel of Christ nonsense in favour of some good old fashioned worship of Blessed Gaia.

God's Own Cutlery

Save the Planet^tm; use a spork!

Dr. Williams: Man in a Bubble

Pat Condell weighs in on the "unavoidable" controversy.

Williams Forgets Which Church He Belongs To

Addressing the firestorm generated by his remarks that sharia law in Britain is "unavoidable", the Archbishop of Canterbury said this today in his defence:

I believe quite strongly that it is not inappropriate for a pastor of the Church of England to address issues about the perceived concerns of other religious communities, and to try and bring them into better public focus.

So Dr. Williams's job is to speak on behalf of other religions. I see.

That must take the cake as the most curious interpretation of the duties of a Anglican clergyman since the Bishop of Durham said that he should keep his job even though he didn't believe in the Resurrection. One would have thought that as Primate of the Church of England His Grace's first and foremost duty was to speak on behalf of Christianity and addressing the concerns (note the lack of the eye-raising word "perceived") of Christians while leaving the Jihadists to carry their own pail.

Strange to see a man of the Archbishop's alleged intelligence digging his own grave with his tongue.

Law of Unintended Consequences

The Archbishop of Canterbury is acting all surprised that his statements that the adoption of sharia in Britain is "unavoidable" have resulted in calls inside and out of the church for his resignation. His Grace, in a fit of pure brass, claims that he just wanted to "provoke discussion".

He certainly did that, though I don't think he imagined that it would be about his employment status. Maybe now he has a better understanding of "unavoidable".

Update: Has the Archbishop gone bonkers?

Sharia in Britain "Unavoidable."

Having backed the abolition of the blasphemy laws in Britain, the Archbishop of Canterbury now says that the adoption of sharia law is "unavoidable".

Sometimes I wonder is His Grace has ever bothered to read his job description. But he is right. Sharia law in Britain is unavoidable-- provided you do nothing except capitulate at every challenge.

Follow Up

Yesterday's news: The Bishop of Rochester states that some Muslim areas of Britain are becoming "no-go" zones for infidels.

Not news: Muslim "leaders" demand that the Bishop resign or be sacked.

News: The C of E backs the Bishop.

Next up: Porcine aviation.

From Church to Sect

Clergymen in Britain are targeted for violence. Do you,

1. Demand the government hunt down the barbarians who would do such a thing and bang them in prison for as long as the law allows.
2. Tell the clergy to ditch the dog collars and skulk about in fear as if Nero was still in power.

If you answered 2, then congratulations. You are now the head of Churchwatch.

Start As You Intend To Continue

Mr. Gordon Brown says that when he becomes prime minister he wants to give up the PM's historic right to select the Archbishop of Canterbury and other bishops of the Church of England.

At first, this seems something of a miracle. Here is a British government (and a Labour one at that) willing to give up power-- something that is on a par with the Sun coming up in the West. But on closer examination, it turns out to be something completely different. If Mr. Brown were really giving up the royal prerogative, he'd be giving it back to the person in whose name he does the selecting: Her Majesty the Queen. Instead, he is embarking on something far more radical:

Mr Brown wants his government to be seen as representing "all faiths and all cultures," and not tied significantly to the Church of England. His proposals raise the possibility that he might take steps to remove the right of bishops to take their seats in the House of Lords.

In other words, Mr. Brown isn't giving up the royal prerogative, he's taking the first step towards disestablishing the Anglican Church in favour of more of the poison of multiculturalism.

Apparently Mr. Brown's idea of continuity is to be as anti-British as his predecessor.

Doc Savage and the Evil-Minded Parishoners

Do Monk, Ham and the others know about this?