"The Bishop of Stockholm has proposed a church in her diocese remove all signs of the cross and put down markings showing the direction to Mecca for the benefit of Muslim worshippers.
"Eva Brunne, who was made the world’s first openly lesbian bishop by the church of Sweden in 2009, and has a young son with her wife and fellow lesbian priest Gunilla Linden, made the suggestion to make those of other faiths more welcome.
"The church targeted is the Seamen’s mission church in Stockholm’s eastern dockyards. The Bishop held a meeting there this year and challenged the priest to explain what he’d do if a ship’s crew came into port who weren’t Christian but wanted to pray.
"Calling Muslim guests to the church “angels“, the Bishop later took to her official blog to explain that removing Christian symbols from the church and preparing the building for Muslim prayer doesn’t make a priest any less a defender of the faith. Rather, to do any less would make one “stingy towards people of other faiths”.
"The bishop insisted this wasn’t an issue, after all airports and hospitals already had multi-faith prayer rooms, and converting the dockyard church would only bring it up to speed. Regardless, the announcement has aroused protest.
"Father Patrik Pettersson, one of the priests in her diocese and active in the same parish as the Seaman’s mission church has hit back in a blog of his own, complaining there is no way you could equate a consecrated church with a prayer room, remarking “I should have thought a bishop would be able to tell the difference”." . . .
A comment on this bishop in Wikipedia was: "In September 2015 Brunne proposed the removal of symbols of Christianity, including crosses, from the Seamen's Church in Stockholm Harbor, to open the church to worshipping sailors of all beliefs, and to mark the direction of Mecca as a service to Muslim visitors.[12][13][14] [15] As the Seamen's Church is an independent foundation and, while in Stockholm, not part of Brunne's Diocese of Stockholm, Kicki Wetterberg, the head of the Seamen's Church, rejected the suggestion in an interview with Dagen, stating that she had "no problem with Muslim or Hindu sailor"s worshipping in the church, but the church will keep its crosses, being a Christian church".Here are some more of her teachings: There is the issue of...wait for it...pronouns.
. . . "Only a week ago, lesbian bishop, Eva Brunne of the Stockholm Church of Sweden, proclaimed our Holy Bible flawed and actually issued a “handbook” to her congregation that has corrected the mistakes of the bestselling book of all time.
"What were the mistakes, according to this heretic? And, yes, I use the word “heretic” correctly and with forethought. The mistakes, according to the homosexual woman, are that the pronouns used in the Bible are not “gender inclusive.” That is not a joke or an exaggeration. Brunne has proclaimed that the men and women who participated in the most inspiring work of mankind were insensitive and, more importantly, wrong in their inspiration.
"No longer would she or her followers be using the words, Lord, Father, He, Him, or His when referring to God or Jesus. The Holy Trinity, as well, will not be referred to as the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, because Brunne says so. And apparently, her word is law in Sweden." . . .
"What were the mistakes, according to this heretic? And, yes, I use the word “heretic” correctly and with forethought. The mistakes, according to the homosexual woman, are that the pronouns used in the Bible are not “gender inclusive.” That is not a joke or an exaggeration. Brunne has proclaimed that the men and women who participated in the most inspiring work of mankind were insensitive and, more importantly, wrong in their inspiration.
"No longer would she or her followers be using the words, Lord, Father, He, Him, or His when referring to God or Jesus. The Holy Trinity, as well, will not be referred to as the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, because Brunne says so. And apparently, her word is law in Sweden." . . .
No comments:
Post a Comment