Posted on 12/07/2011 7:33:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Really? Didn’t Jesus have a job?
Blessed are they who took out $150,000 in student loans to get a degree in Marxist Semiotics.
In a British magazine, the leader of the world’s 78 million Anglicans worldwide insisted that Jesus would be “there, sharing the risks, not just taking sides.”…
In his article written for the Christmas edition of the Radio Times magazine, the archbishop said Jesus was “constantly asking awkward questions” in the Bible.
In the St. Paul’s encampment, Williams added, Jesus would be “steadily changing the entire atmosphere by the questions that he asked of everybody involved — rich and poor, capitalist and protester and cleric.”
The archbishop said that when Jesus said “give Caesar what belongs to Caesar,” he was asking “what’s the exact point at which involvement in the empire of capitalist economy involves you fatally.”
The first question to be asked: “Can everyone please stop crapping on the floor of the cathedral?” He’s actually not the first Christian authority to nod at the Occupy movement — the Vatican’s Pontifical Council released a critique of the global financial system a few weeks ago that seemed timed to capitalize on the global attention to OWS — but I’m intrigued by his read on rendering unto Caesar, as that’s unfailingly cited by Christians on our side of the aisle whenever liberals claim Jesus would be a tax-and-spend redistributionist liberal. He seems to be suggesting that “Caesar” isn’t the state but capitalism itself, and that because “Caesar” wants more than what belongs to it, we have to deny it by turning to — what? Christianity? Higher taxes? A dingy tent city in front of St. Paul’s? Why would Jesus want to become an occupier instead of getting the occupiers to become Christians? Ever get the feeling that Rowan Williams isn’t totally confident in his own belief system?
Exit question: Is Obama maybe just trying to help the rich get into heaven? Look out for an “eye of the needle” reference in his next big class warfare speech!
He oughtta donate part of his eyebrows to Ron Paul.
I’m no Christian but it’s hard for me to square what I know about a man who went willingly to a crucifixion to redeem mankind with the whining self-centered cretins who think they are heroes because they poop on sidewalks
Unfortunately, I suspect that Rowan Williams is perfectly and snugly comfortable in his own belief system--it just has no connection to Christian orthodoxy.
For the modern relevancy-seeking, demythologizing deconstructionist, Jesus has had His significance erased, to become little more than a religious Rorschach blot into which (not "into Whom")one may read any significance necessary to justify the current media-driven frenzy into which Those Without Centers find themselves whipped, and which they mistake for a passion for the Kingdom of God--or, more precisely, hope that others will mistake for that passion.
An earlier poster remarked that "the Anglicans have lost it;" but it's a much sadder and more damning truth that the Anglicans have not just lost it, but have been throwing it away with both hands for some time now--at least, many of the professional clergy have been doing so, and seem to think that believe means I am currently of the opinion that this ought to be true.
The entire thing is based on greed and jelousy.
I pray for God to provide a brain to Occupy the archbishops head.
What always comes to my mind is:
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods. And...
Render to Ceasar.
Long ago, but later than the Latins think (they'll date that to the original break with Rome) and longer ago than most, who fancy it was the embrace of homosexuality (not mere tolerance of, which would be bad enough) or the priesting of women, would suggest.
They jumped the shark when they couldn't condemn "Bishop" Pike for heresy when he denied the Trinity, deciding instead that "heresy is no longer a relevant category" (which in theological matters is equivalent to deciding that truth is no longer a relevant category). Yeah, that was the U.S. bunch, PECUSA, but the Lambeth Conference didn't slap them down, as they should have, if Anglicanism still stood for (even a solid approximation of) the Faith once delivered to the Saints.
The Oxford Movement seems to have been God's last attempt to recall Anglicanism from a slide into apostacy. Now most of the Oxford Movement's spiritual descendants are either Orthodox or Latin. So, be not downcast, you can still check the web for times and hear a good sung Evensong and not have to deal with rank apostacy by turning up at an Anglican Ordinariate parish or most Antiochian Western-Rite parishes.
I see your home page bears the French flag. Yes, that expression might have taken a while to spread to Europe. Where did you hear the expression? Did you hear it in French or English?
I'm just wondering if this is one of those English-language expressions that the French will absolutely loathe.
"What sluggards, what cowards have I brought up in my court, who care nothing for their allegiance to their lord. Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest."
/sarc
Is he talking about the Jesus that dined with tax collectors?
Just askin’.
Clearly the Archbishop is unfamiliar
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
with YHvH and his WORD !
Isn’t this the same guy who said more or less that belief in the Resurrection is unnecessary?
If Jesus wasn’t willing to support the Jewish Zealot movement of his time he certainly wouldn’t support the OWS movement.
I doubt it would be possible to be more willfully ignorant.
Matthew 6:33
New King James Version (NKJV)
33” But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things (food and clothing) shall be added to you.”
This Jesus?
It hurts to talk bad about Anglicans because my favorite Catholic was one: G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis who remained one, wasn’t too bad either. As a matter of fact his “Mere Christianity” once properly rediscovered is what’s gonna help the Brits come back to their senses.
But today’s variety... bah!
Jesus is with everyone who sincerely opens his heart to Him. He loves us... and I don’t know why, and it oftentimes pisses me off, but even just thinking about Him in a sort of never-never nebula-land of atheism, agnosticism, superstition, indifference - I mean just occasionally peeking through the keyhole almost like a voyeur, on the sacred, already begins to WORK WONDERS. Sneak a peek and if you’re ready it’ll rock your world! (Amen)
The Christ IS ALREADY the movement infinitely beyond any piddly OWS movement, Tea Party movement, or anything politics.
Do the Brits have any sense of shame left? Why is this guy still the head of the Anglican church?
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