WELCOME TO THE PARTY
I may have to start charging admission around here or something. A little over a month after I discussed Katharine Jefferts Schori’s theological “creativity” in Curaçao, the New York Times finally gets around to it. Mrs. Schori’s defense of her apostasy is just as inept as you knew it would be:
But Bishop Jefferts Schori pointed out, in an interview on Friday, that elsewhere in the Bible, Paul appears to condone slavery. Her sermon was thus part of a necessary, continuing tradition of interpretation.
“If the church had never reinterpreted Scripture,” the bishop said, “we would still have slavery — legal slavery.” Scripture must be read “in our own time and our own context,” because prior generations had “a limited view,” she said.
“They had to have a limited view, because none of us is God.”
Tru dat. But I’m still waiting on that Scripture verse commanding us to own slaves, Presiding Bishop, because until you come up with that one, the rest of your “exegesis” is just stupid. But I guess that’s going to be your go-to justification for whatever pledge-paying perversion comes down the line from here on, isn’t it? It’s not a sin to boink my sister’s cat because SLAVERY!!
But Bishop Jefferts Schori pointed out, in an interview on Friday, that elsewhere in the Bible, Paul appears to condone slavery. Her sermon was thus part of a necessary, continuing tradition of interpretation.
“If the church had never reinterpreted Scripture,” the bishop said, “we would still have slavery — legal slavery.” Scripture must be read “in our own time and our own context,” because prior generations had “a limited view,” she said.
“They had to have a limited view, because none of us is God.”
Tru dat. But I’m still waiting on that Scripture verse commanding us to own slaves, Presiding Bishop, because until you come up with that one, the rest of your “exegesis” is just stupid. But I guess that’s going to be your go-to justification for whatever pledge-paying perversion comes down the line from here on, isn’t it? It’s not a sin to boink my sister’s cat because SLAVERY!!
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