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ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY DENOUNCES GIBSON FILM AS PRO-CHRISTIAN
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| 3-22-04
| William Grim
Posted on 03/22/2004 10:46:59 AM PST by FlyLow
(London)-In his homily yesterday during a memorial service for Palestinian suicide bombers, the Right Reverend Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, denounced Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" as being "overtly pro-Christian."
"This film is going to have a devastating effect on Anglicanism worldwide," said Reverend Williams. "Impressionable persons may be unduly influenced and actually begin attending church. And it would be a great tragedy if the Church had to divert its precious resources away from protesting against capitalism and democracy and use them instead for religious purposes." The Archbishop became angry at this point and interjected," I didn't enter the ministry to promote the so-called Gospel of someone who allegedly lived 2000 years ago. I became a priest in order to empower gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, heathens and persons with a fondness for sheep!"
In related news, the Right reverend Percy Bigglesworth, Bishop Co-Adjutor for the Diocese of Provincetown and Fire Island, yesterday denounced Gibson's film for having no clearly identifiable gay or lesbian characters and for showing Mary Magdalene's former profession as sex worker in a negative light.
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: anglican; archbishop; cantebury; episcopalian; fool; gibson; idiot; jerk; melgibson; passion; protestant; thepassion; thepassionofchrist
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To: Knute
This is a JOKE... right???? Yes. But it's getting harder and harder to tell.
To: FlyLow
One of my favorite priests often jokes, "Let us pray for the Jesuits, that they may become Catholic."
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:09:29 AM PST
by
Poohbah
("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
To: FlyLow
The Bible is "Pro-Christian" as well. Does this idiot denounce the Bible too?
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:09:42 AM PST
by
dc-zoo
To: FlyLow
If you had left out the sheep this would have been too believable.ROTFLMAO
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:11:04 AM PST
by
xkaydet65
(" You have never tasted freedom my friend, else you would know, it is purchased not with gold, but w)
To: Ciexyz
I've some Roman blood somewhere in me (those old folks were always roman' around), so I say this movie will cause folks to start with that ole anti-Romanism. They'll try to get revenge against us for the deeds of some ancestors... No fair.
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:12:35 AM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: nightdriver
You mean in EnglishSTAN?
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:13:36 AM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Coleus
Fun with Anglicans!
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:14:09 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(Repeal the Rockefeller AND Sullivan Laws!)
To: FlyLow; xsmommy; secret garden
I didn't enter the ministry to promote the so-called Gospel of someone who allegedly lived 2000 years ago. I became a priest in order to empower gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, heathens and persons with a fondness for sheep!" LOL.
He forgot Druids, or does he just lump them in with the rest of the heathens.
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:16:03 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Hey John F'in. Kerry, why the long face?)
To: Clemenza
Fun with Anglicans! Anglicans are fun, you just can't play chess with them
As they confuse their queens for bishops.
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:17:13 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Hey John F'in. Kerry, why the long face?)
To: FlyLow
The Archbishop of Canterbury denouncing The Passion as pro-Christian? That's like the Chinese Communist Party denouncing Mao for being too pro-Communist!
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:19:46 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: dubyaismypresident

No Rowan Williams-related thread is complete without the obligatory picture -- autosarcasm at its best.
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:20:20 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: dubyaismypresident
Anglicans are fun, you just can't play chess with them As they confuse their queens for bishops. LOL! When will Elton John be made Archbishop of Canterbury?
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:20:24 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(Repeal the Rockefeller AND Sullivan Laws!)
To: FlyLow
I trust its satire. If it actually turns out to be real one day, it be the day Christianity REALLY expired and I'm not just talking about Anglicanism either!
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:22:29 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: FlyLow
Had me going until I looked at source.
HOW ABOUT someone coming up with the ArchHypocrite's email and mailing addresses so we can snow his locale with copies of this?
I'd love for him to have to dig through 12 foot piles to see light.
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:27:33 AM PST
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: MegaSilver
Ooooorrrrrrrrrrr,
they might, just
SHOCKINGLY
start taking Scripture at face value
and talking to Christ directly;
going to The Father righteous in faith in Christ's Blood alone;
calling only Almighty God Father . . .
etc.
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:30:32 AM PST
by
Quix
(Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
To: FlyLow
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:31:07 AM PST
by
Gman
Comment #37 Removed by Moderator
To: FlyLow
Be fair, you need a "satire" in the title.
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:35:00 AM PST
by
PeoplesRep_of_LA
(I am no longer afraid to publicly say I love Jesus, thanks Mel)
To: FlyLow
This is satire only because Archdruid Williams and other Anglican/Episcopalian Bishops have not said the words for the record, but their actions have given every indication that this satire is all too true.
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:40:18 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(John Kerry is nothing more than Ted Kennedy without a dead girl in the car.)
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posted on
03/22/2004 11:40:47 AM PST
by
Consort
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