What I quoted is the views and attitudes that the Christian church of today promotes - Christian woman rapping against trans people, promotes the exlusion of gays from the clergy, and all the other negatives that you and others on here are quick to ignore.
As I say, your assumptions are wrong, Owl. Simple. There may be some groupings who exclude gays or tans - but when one remembers that there are ordained gay men in the Church of England (and have been for several decades), as well as other denominations it would seem that "What
(you) quoted is the views and attitudes that the Christian church of today promotes" is a minority opinion at best. Then, you say 'Christian woman rapping against trans people'. Again, are you suggesting that what 1 (one) Christian says/sings about is mainstream? Finally, on this paragraph, which "all the other negatives ... quick to ignore" would those be?
Modern Christianity, if I listen to you, has moved way away from what Christ taught; and; if I listen to Sassy, it, modern Chrsitianity cannot even agree on what its beknighted book of rules says, even down to not being able to agree if it was translated correctly while not even being able to agree on what books or papers it should be translated froim or from what bloody language!
I would agree that the Church has, during the last 2000 years "moved way away from what Christ taught" - hence things like the Inquisition, the accretion of wealth, sexual and other abuse of parishoners, etc - but I would also suggest that (partly because of the loss of nominal believers, for whom the traditions were often more important than the principles taught by Jesus) modern Christianity is probably closer to what Jesus taught than has been the case for some centuries.
What proportion of the total UK parish clergy are men? What proportion of parish church goers are men? Should these not be the same, and should this not tranlate all the way up to Archbishop level.
OK, according to the Guardian, 11 Feb 2014
Between 2002 and 2012, the number of female full-time clergy has increased by 41% from 1,262 to 1,781.
Simultaneously, the number of full-time males has dropped from 7,920 to 6,017, meaning women now make up roughly one in five members of full-time clergy (but only one-in-seven of those in incumbent posts such as vicars and priests-in-charge).
Just under half of part-time clergy are women and over half of the 3,148 ministers who support themselves are too.
So, yes there is a slight imbalance, though if you look at the make up of General Synod and diocesan synods, the mix is fairly equal - perhaps even more women. I believe that the issue of women in church leadership has been skewed by 2 issues. One is the fact that there would appear to have been a number of women in leadership prior to the Church being adopted by the Romans in the 4th century; and secondly, the resultant male-dominated elite that runs counter to Jesus' teachings.
The idea that a church that has 2 Archbishops has to share those between male and female smacks too much, in my view, of quotas. I'd rather have the two people best suited for the roles at any given time. If my father and others had had their way back in the 60s, the CofE would have women clergy long before it actually did; ironically, it was women who often voted the idea down in local synods.
The Church is, in places, still implacably against SSM.
And there is good doctrinal reasoning for this, in the same way that the church is, in places, still implacably against wrongdoing.
The Christian Church in the 21st century is a screwed up mess of politics and sexism and racism that must have Christ spinning in his grave, or his throne at the right hand of God - whchever you believe.
Unfortunately, the church is made up of people, and wherever people come together in this type of way, there are going to be flaws and problems like this. These issues certainly aren't unique to Christianity and the Church.
