Posted on 10/04/2015 5:14:59 PM PDT by markomalley
How wonderful and generous and ecumenical and multicultural this is. Watch for mosques everywhere to remove their mihrabs and install crosses so that Christians will feel comfortable praying there.
This is what a society and culture in the midst of suicide looks like.
“Bishop wants to remove Christian symbols in the Seamen’s Church,” translated from “Biskopen vill ta bort kristna symboler,” SVT.se, September 29, 2015:
Bishop Eva Brunne has proposed to remove the Christian symbols of the Seamen’s Church in Freeport to make it more inviting for visiting sailors from other religions.
The bishop wants to temporarily make the Seamen’s Church available to all, for example by marking the direction of Mecca and removing Christian symbols, as is already done in common prayer rooms at airports and in some hospital chapel.
“Making a room available for people of other faiths does not mean that we are not defenders of our own faith. Priests are called to proclaim Christ. We do that every day and in every meeting with people. But that does not mean that we are stingy toward people of other faiths,” writes Bishop Eva Brunne…
Has aroused protests
The proposal has triggered protests. Patrik Pettersson, priest of the Oscars parish in Stockholm, thinks that the proposal is noteworthy and writes on his blog:
“The church chapel can not reasonably be equated with prayer rooms at airports and hospital chapels anyway. The Christian churches and chapels are not public areas at any time.”
And Seamen’s Mission Director Kiki Wetterberg does not agree with the bishop.
“I have no problem with Muslim or Hindu sailors coming here and praying. But I believe that we are a Christian church, so we keep the symbols. If I visit a mosque, I do not ask them to take down their symbols. It’s my choice to go in there,” she says to the newspaper Dagen.
Good point, but lady up, please.
From the source:
Gerd Eva Cecilia Brunne (born 7 March 1954) is a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She became the Bishop of Stockholm in 2009. She is the first openly lesbian bishop of a mainstream church in the world and the first bishop of the Church of Sweden to be in a registered same-sex partnership.
sad... very, very, sad.
She’s lost.
**And Seamen’s Mission Director Kiki Wetterberg does not agree with the bishop.**
And neither would I.
No wonder this person is named after Hitler’s mistress.
The fact that her church could appoint her bishop and not notice she wasn’t a Christian tells you all you need to know about that church.
Once the spirit has departed the premises, there is nothing left to do but call in the realtors.
This church died somewhere along the way and no one noticed.
Not sure why you have a church in that situation. Why not call it a social club or something.
Wasn't that Hitler's mistress?
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Not sure why you have a church in that situation. Why not call it a social club or something.
We already have a multiplicity of social clubs...they’re called Novus Ordo churches, and all the priests are known as Father Dave, Jim, Pete, Bob, etc...
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