tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7139665670755347798..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: Angry Sydney Anglicans, and bollocks to Barney Zwartz and a nuanced discussion ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-5479890494020877482012-06-24T12:43:23.455+10:002012-06-24T12:43:23.455+10:00Always terrifying with your links Anon, and spot o...Always terrifying with your links Anon, and spot on backgrounding Brian. <br /><br />The pond has long been irritated by the support of the Sydney Anglicans for destructive activity in Africa, which is on-going. Like any ponzi or pyramid scheme, the cult needs to go in search of members, and with the locals not buying, they've seized on Africa as a way to extend their reach. Their support of fundamentalism in Africa, with all its consequences, is a disgrace, but it has its own reward in the local market, with a fading flock tiring of the prejudice and the bigotry.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-20380383226674534772012-06-24T10:48:46.092+10:002012-06-24T10:48:46.092+10:00It isn’t Barney who needs to be anxious about asso...It isn’t Barney who needs to be anxious about associating Australian fundies and American right wing Christians. It’s the Ugandan gays and lesbians who potentially face the death sentence if the Anti-Homosexual Bill currently before parliament gets enacted.<br /><br />This bill is supported by leaders of the Ugandan Anglican church including the recently retired Archbishop Henry Orombi. The Ugandan Anglicans are, in turn supported by the Sydney Anglicans, whose Archbishop Peter Jensen was secretary for the GAFCON group of Anglicans which includes, among others, the Ugandans. GAFCON is a schismatic grouping that opposes the "false gospel" creeping into the Anglican Communion, which "promotes a variety of sexual preferences and immoral behaviour as a universal human right". That is, they are an anti-gay group.<br /><br />Attending the initial conference of GAFCON was the multi millionaire ‘Christian Reconstructionist’ Howard Ahmanson. Ahmanson is thought to be bankrolling the GAFCON group. <br /><br />Here’s a taste of Howies’ politics from Wikipedia:<br />“Ahmanson is reported to have "never supported his mentor's calls for the death penalty for homosexuals"; instead, as the Orange County Register reported in 2004, he "no longer consider[s] [it] essential" to stone people who are deemed to have committed certain immoral acts. Ahmanson also told the Register, "It would still be a little hard to say that if one stumbled on a country that was doing that, that it is inherently immoral, to stone people for these things. But I don't think it's at all a necessity."”<br /><br />Jensen has never publically opposed the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill nor denied Ahmanson’s role in funding GAFCON.<br /><br />So Jensen isn’t ‘powerful and influential’ enough or sufficiently ‘akin’ to the American religious right for Barney?<br /><br />Tell that to the Ugandan lesbians and gays.Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-6096696927120972802012-06-24T10:42:21.706+10:002012-06-24T10:42:21.706+10:00Dorothy, when you've had all the homosexual cl...Dorothy, when you've had all the homosexual clobber passages identified for you in Sexegesis, you can then learn how to <a href="http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2012/06/a-smorgasbord-of-bible-memorization-methods-and-one-way-to-learn-whole-books/" rel="nofollow">memorise the passages</a> so evangelicals can spread the <a href="http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2012/06/what-joy-in-hell/" rel="nofollow">hellish word</a> throughout the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Briefing" rel="nofollow">world</a>...oh and it's a great <a href="http://www.christianbooks.co.za/speakers/" rel="nofollow">marketing strategy</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com