AND NOW…IDIOTS

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

For some reason, the Washington Post decided to give almost unlimited column space to homosexual Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, who is a homosexual, so that Robbie can explain why the entire Christian church in all its manifestations throughout its history got homosexuality completely wrong for the last 2,000 years.

There have been three segments so far and David Fischler has a excellent evisceration of each so head over there and start scrolling. To me, the following passage illustrates the worthlessness of the whole enterprise(Attention Roman Catholics. When reading the following paragraph, try not to laugh too hard):

Understanding scripture in its contexts is no easy task, and it is fraught with potential misuse. All readers of scripture are subject to self-deception – that is, the temptation to interpret the scriptures in a way that satisfies our own selfish desires and biases, rather than hearing the truth of the passage which may challenge, condemn and call into question those desires and biases. That is why scripture must always be studied and understood in community. The temptation is too great to interpret scripture in our own image to attempt it alone. One must always be subject to the larger community’s understandings to guard against only hearing what one wants to hear.

Face? You and Palm have really been getting after it lately.

Part of the community whose voice needs to be considered, is that of the Tradition – that is, what has been said over the years about any given passage of scripture. We, in the present time, are not the only ones who have struggled with these passages, and our own understanding needs to be informed by the larger community of the faithful in the past.

Is Robbie a pathological liar? A sociopath? The least self-aware human being who has ever walked the Earth? Although I guess there’s really no reason why he couldn’t be some combination of all three.

Robbie, most intelligent people know that that is precisely what the Christian community the world over HASbeen doing for the last 2,000 years. And on the issue of what you enjoy doing in your off-hours, would you like to know the conclusion to which the vast majority of the Christian community has arrived? I will tell you.

HOMOSEXUAL SEX IS A SIN!!

Man up and deal with it. The vast majority of the Christian world has weighed your arguments in the balances and found them wanting because reputable Christian scholars have read the words of the Bible, decided that they meant what they said and adjusted their lives accordingly.

You and other liberal theologians, on the other hand, have begun with your desired conclusion, that homosexual activity shouldn’t be considered a sin anymore, and then worked back, “interpreting” the Scriptures to mean what they clearly do not say. And that’s your right.

Preach that doctrine all you want. Ordain anyone you care to. Just have the intellectual honesty not to claim that your doctrine has anything to do with Christianity in any way whatsoever because it does not and it never will. Because if you get to make this stuff up as you go along, then everybody gets that right. Once that happens, the Christian religion officially becomes completely and utterly meaningless.

One final and important note: I do NOT believe that God stopped revealing God’s self with the closing of the canon (officially sanctioned as “holy” and official) of Scripture. Some would argue that God said everything God needed and wanted to say by the end of the first century of the Common Era (a less condescending way of referring to that time since the birth of Christ). They would posit a God who, when the scriptures were “finished” bid the world a fond farewell and went off to some beautiful part of God’s creation (the Bahamas, Patagonia, Nepal?!!), leaving us to our own devices, given that everything had been said that needed to be said. I don’t believe that.

Then Robbie Robbie’s self is a high-church Mormon. God speaks to people all the time and I’m sure that much of the readership here has heard from Him more than once. But here’s the deal, you fatuous airhead.

God doesn’t speak Holy Scripture to anyone alive today. EVER. What God says to me is for me and me alone; it is not an eternal truth that everyone needs to hear. And if you think I was kidding about Robbie’s leftist Mormonism, this next part should pretty much clinch it for you.

In John’s Gospel, which is largely made up of the conversation Jesus has with his disciples at the Last Supper, Jesus says: “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.” (John 16: 12-13a) I take this to mean that Jesus is saying to the disciples, “Look, for a bunch of uneducated and rough fishermen, you haven’t done too badly. In fact, you will do amazing things with the rest of your lives. But don’t think for a minute that God is done with you – or done with believers who will come after you. There is much more that God wants to teach you, but you cannot handle it right now. So, I will send the Holy Spirit who will lead you into that new Truth.”

I guess you need an “interpretation” as dishonest as that one when you deliberately ignore John 16:14, when you think that both God and Jesus contradict Themselves all the time and when that whole idea doesn’t seem to bother you in the slightest.

Or when you really don’t believe in God at all.