Comments on: The violent face of evangelical Anglicanism

By: Indigo Jo Blogs — JPost editorial tells Europe how to deal with Muslim women

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:35:33 +0000

[…] the leaders of the Indian BJP and its associated organisations, various Serbian religious figures, Peter Akinola and his fellow-travellers in the Church of England; would the west be taking their advice also? […]

By: Indigo Jo

Indigo Jo — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:16:02 +0000

Holly: he’s not Catholic, he’s Anglican. These are the folks who want to control the church in England as well, not just Africa.

By: George Carty

George Carty — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:59:26 +0000

Until it committed suicide in the Thirty Years’ War, Christian intolerance was far worse than Muslim intolerance.

Palestine, Syria, Egypt and (for a time) Greece were all lost to Christendom thanks to the logic of “better live dhimmi than dead heretic”. Spain was a bit different - there it was enslaved Jews rather than persecuted heretics which served as the pro-Muslim fifth column.

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:19:36 +0000

I can’t believe that this Peter Akinola, a Christian Bishop, would act in such a heinous manner! Makes me appalled to be Catholic!

By: Andromeda

Andromeda — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:15:11 +0000

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By: Thersites

Thersites — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:36:39 +0000

“Scattered or not, the references are still explicit, and their import was understood perfectly for generations until the late 20th century. It is the liberals who are out on a limb on this issue.”

Not necessarily: as the christian belief is that the bible is the word of god as reported through men they can easily and happily chuck out the more repellent bits if it suits them, whereas muslims are lumbered with explaining why torturing homosexuals to death is really a good thing if the quran recommends it. The references are to practises, not to sexual orientation and the innovation, I think, is in the evangelicals’ obsession with making windows into men’s souls, rather than bothering with what they do. Archbishop Akinola shows the disadvantage- unless you’re a christian with a taste for violence- of that fact: christians can find reasons for being violent and murderous without even the restrictions on persecution imposed by islam. Certainly, he is in the historical mainstream of christianity, if not of Anglicanism, in a way that the civilised Bishops we have in england are not.