Posts Tagged ‘FOCA’
Well done Anglicans!
After hours of rancorous debate, the Church of England’s ruling body, the General Synod, has voted by a two-to-one majority to allow the ordination of women bishops in the UK. First report.
“Rancorous” even! Brave stuff, this, by the General Synod. In South Africa last year the Dutch Reformed Church made a complex compromise out of a non-decision on gays. Guts. Always admirable. Lack thereof always abominable.
A Guy named Liz
Queen Elizabeth II is the official head of the Church of England, courtesy of Henry VIII who declared himself “single and supreme Lord, and, as far as the law of Christ allows, even supreme head”.
Now if there can’t be female bishops, the head of this ridiculous lot must surely be a man too and therefore Elizabeth II must be a man. A guy named Liz.
How to be an Anglican and not red-faced? Not possible.
Religion. Gimme religion any day for a belly laugh.
A Woman Bishop? FOCA!
Between the mind numbing nonsense of creation and eternal life, religion is a belly laugh: the Virgin Birth; “The Trinity” – surely the single most ridiculous thing ever ideated; Transubstantiation; Limbo; space travel in a jelleba… the mind boggles. Had the Monty Python Troupe existed some 4000 years ago, it would all have made sense.
Anglicans, in these times of wars and rumours of wars, of earthquakes and hurricanes, of hunger and AIDS, are bickering over the sex of people trained to recollect several consecutive stages of suffering and waft about incense.
The Anglican Church owes its very existence to a piece of skirt. They should restrict the ministry to wenches – the current lot crossdress already and that’s a start.
Cathected by Anne Boleyn, the paphian Henry VIII called on the pope – Clement VII – to annul his betrothal to Catherine of Aragon so that he might make an honest women out of Anni. Eventually Henry took matters completely in his own hand, “knew” Ms Boleyn silly and called the breed The Church of England.
In what can only be considered a cosmic bon mot, the anti female crusade has now organised under the unfortunate acronymn FOCA. And you tell me there’s no God!?
For this lot to frown upon female bishops is a scream.
Every time. Just as I think religion cannot possibly become more idiotic…
