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Archbishop of Canterbury Declares God Gender Neutral
2018-11-23
[Breitbart] Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said that God is "not male nor female," after female bishops demanded the Church of England stop referring to God solely as "he."

The head of the worldwide Anglican communion told attendees at a lecture at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square: "All human language about God is inadequate and to some degree metaphorical.

"God is not a father in exactly the same way as a human being is a father. God is not male or female. God is not definable.

"It is extraordinarily important as Christians that we remember that the definitive revelation of who God is was not in words, but in the word of God who we call Jesus Christ. We can’t pin God down."

Professor of Christian history Diarmaid MacCulloch backed Archbishop Welby’s statement, telling The Times that the reason God has been perceived as male is due to "patriarchal assumptions" of early Christian societies of Greece and Rome.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  They're lucky God isn't in the mood to smite anymore. I wonder what the 10th archdruid would say if the preceding 9 got vaporized by lightning any time they walked outside.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-11-23 19:59  

#15  "Your Catholicism is a cult. Keep drinking the Popes koolaid -- Ebbavirt Clunk4147"

sniff... What's that? I smell a bigoted asshole.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-11-23 19:37  

#14  No wonder Brits quit the church with this kind of leadership.
Posted by: jvalentour   2018-11-23 15:28  

#13  Well, if any entity could be what ever 'gender' it wanted to be, it would certainly be God. I just hope God has a good sense of humor.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-11-23 13:49  

#12  Dear Saviour, please bless our dispersal.
Free Byrd; silence Tallis and Purcell.
But first, a few odes
As we burn all the codes.
Three cheers for the church universal!
Posted by: Vernal Clunk8329   2018-11-23 13:06  

#11  The prayer of the posh pompous proddies
(as sung holding hands with the Soddies):
"O lord gosh, be neutered
Because we were Tudored
By cruel public school student bodies!"
Posted by: Angong Angaith9048   2018-11-23 12:54  

#10  Archbishop of Canterbury

I liked him better when he was the leader of the Druids.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-11-23 12:44  

#9  Sez Welby, Archbishop of Jezebel,
Pansexual, "Well, to be equable,
There's naught to be said
I can't see from my bed:
The all-abled is therefore in-F-able.
Posted by: Albert Hatrack4600   2018-11-23 12:35  

#8  So, the Archbishop and his supporting professor are clarifying their unwarranted assumptions about a subject that they admit they know nothing about.
That certainly straightens things up.
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-11-23 12:12  

#7  #2 - not Catholic
Posted by: Frank G   2018-11-23 11:50  

#6  God also likes to wear a bomb vest, doncha know...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-11-23 10:36  

#5  Same Archbishop that turned that church over to the muzzies.

41 Bible Verses about the Father - KJV
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-11-23 10:33  

#4  This doesn't smell honest enough to dignify with the term "apophatic theology."
Posted by: james   2018-11-23 10:13  

#3  Why would I care what he says? England is dead to me.
Posted by: Slolutle Cloluse3142   2018-11-23 08:55  

#2  Your Catholicism is a cult. Keep drinking the Popes koolaid until the massive migration of Muslims occupy the Vatican which will be very soon.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2018-11-23 08:51  

#1  Is the Archbishop lost in the pronoun usage weeds?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-11-23 08:33  

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