In an emotional closing speech on Saturday, Bishop Broadhurst used the metaphor of the frog and the boiling pot to describe the current Anglican status.
"The temperature at the pot has become intolerable, but the process of boiling started before the ordination of women… The truth is, the tragedy for us is the Church of England has presumed. It's presumed to know better than the tradition on many matters and it's presumed to know better than Jesus Christ about some matters,” he explained.
“And It is the presumption of our Church in this present period that has caused such pain and anguish to many of us.
“Oh yes, the ordination of women was the water being turned up; we knew that we were going to be cooked to death ...
“And what the general (Anglican) Synod did, was to say, ‘We will push the pot towards the edge of the gas, as long as you stay on this side of the pot, with a few ice cubes, it'll be all right,’” Bishop Broadhurst said.
My words to Doug in an earlier post on frogs seem singularly apropos:
Bishop Broadhurst, please leave the stage.
Thanks to Ann for the link.
I have little sympathy for those who temporize and accommodate their views to the prevailing culture, and then turn around and complain and whine that it's going to hell in a handbasket. IF that's what one believes, then a wise person will get the hell out. Or to use Broadhurst's analogy -- once you know the pot is on the boil you're a fool to stay in the pot.
ReplyDeleteHave the moral cojones to disassociate yourself from the things with which you no longer wish to associate! I did when at 14 I left the Roman Catholic Church. I don't recriminate them for my decision, nor do I keep casting mooning backward glances or spending my time trying to reform a body I've left.
Pardon my French.
Tobias, I love your French, but it looks like Spanish to me. Of course, I could be wrong!
ReplyDeleteI love it when the irenic and balanced Tobias bristles just a bit. And well put!
ReplyDeleteWhen I knew I was no longer a Baptist, I left. No drama, no recriminations; I just moved on.
As I did when I left Rome. And I had no thought to take the building with me.
ReplyDeleteEven frogs know enough to hop out! Read here
ReplyDeleteAnn, you've debunked the Conservatives' favorite illustration! Can they get nothing right!?
ReplyDeleteIt seems not.
I think it could be easily said that some frogs don´t leap as well and/or as far as others...some frogs can´t even see beyond the pan/pond and some don´t/won´t leave the swamp in the first place because they have no place to go and are content to get fat, at home, at their own Lilly Pad, forever and ever, men, women and amen.
ReplyDelete“Oh yes, the ordination of women was the water being turned up; we knew that we were going to be cooked to death ...
ReplyDeleteBoil, boil, toil and trouble!
If you want out of the pot, all you got to do is leave!
Ann, thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteLen, amen.
SCG, apparently being in a church with women priests nearly did them in. Women bishops will be the coup de grâce.
I say, Grandmère Mimi, on a completely different subject, that's a great knew profile picture!!!
ReplyDeleteTim, it is. I get tired of looking at the same picture. I'm wearing my St. John's Episcopal Church shirt, but you can't tell that in the picture.
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