I wasn’t aware that Calvin Robinson was planning on becoming a CofE vicar and had been studying at Oxford with that ultimate intention. However, all is not going smoothly. It seems that Calvin, having conservative views, is ‘problematic.’ You would have thought conservative views would be welcomed in such a vocation, but it would seem not. I’ll let him explain, but would make this one observation – the modern priesthood is the very thing that Jesus railed against. The arrogance and pomposity, the sheer corruption of the soul and the meddling in politics that is going on. Nothing, it would seem, has changed in the last 2,000 years. The modern priesthood is the very thing it claims to be opposed to.
Just sayin’.
And here is the article in the Express.
The selectors were led into a trap.
(WARNING- Some people may be upset by the following racist comment.)
They looked at his application photograph – Yes, suitably diverse, his hair – Yes plus.
Then on first face to face-to-face good talker. He talks like us. Propah with good self confident (arrogant?) posture.
Later.
Screams in back office “OMG ( in a totally non blasphemous sense) What have we done? How are we going to get out of this without looking like racist bigots?
Was it ever thus?
Religion – on the institutional level at least – is corruption. What else can it be? If you claim supernatural authority, no dissent from anything temporal can be tolerated.
Of course, in the real world temporal authorities often have the real power. So your religion has to “adjust”.
And before anybody says it, “global warming”, “woke” etc are not religions as such as they do note cite any actual supernatural authority (“gaia” I suppose at a stretch).
That said one can look from pig to man and back to pig again……
@LR Thanks for posting this thread
Elsewhere:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1596911/GB-News-Calvin-Robinson-conservative
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/04/17/gb-news-presenter-calvin-robinson-told-he-cannot-be-ordained-in-church-of-england-due-to-his-orthodox-christian-views/
Welby and CoE are no longer Christians, they’re the money changers Jesus expelled
That thought went through my mind.
The same kind of anti Christian thinking was applied by the CofE to their running of schools. CofE schools were funded by the state but were much more successful than regular state schools because of their Christian ethos. It was definitely nothing to do with a selection process that played to middle class parents who were prepared to pretend to be Christians for the duration of their offspring’s schooldays and made sure that any difficult little oiks were shunted into the nearby comprehensive. Those oiks and their families being the kind of people that Jesus said that they should be looking out for.