h/t Mark Hodgson.
This article in the Conservative Woman:
CONFIRMATION services in the Church of England are about to become politicised after the General Synod voted to include a liturgical response to ‘the climate emergency’.
A firm believer in the bulldozer as a means of achieving Net Zero in the national Church’s property portfolio, Bishop Graham intoned in her concluding remarks in the debate last Tuesday: ‘On buildings retro-fitting is not always the answer. We need bespoke solutions for each building clearly and sometimes the bulldozer is the best one but sometimes retro-fitting is and we have just completed our first retro-fit in Oxford Diocese at the cost, I believe, of £75,000 but we now have a Net Zero vicarage. We hope that it is the first of many.’
‘If the House of God cannot accommodate the new Sustainability religion, then we’ll bloody well tear it down’.
She further proclaimed: ‘Ninety per cent of a church’s entire carbon footprint lies with the congregation . . . Let us be in no doubt, Synod, that we cannot invent or spend our way out of this crisis. It’s going to need us to change.’ In case you think I am making this up, here is a video of the debate, with Bishop Graham making her appearance about two hours in.
‘Repent all ye carbon sinners!’
Candidates for ordination are to be drilled in left-wing environmental dogma, dressed up as a deeper understanding ‘in how care for the earth is part of our Christian faith and a missional imperative’.
The motion requested that ‘Bishops and the Liturgical Commission’ encourage the inclusion of an additional question to confirmation candidates in the commissioning part of the service: ‘Will you strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the Earth?’
I’ve never been religious, but I do quite enjoy visiting old churches and breathing in the history and the ambience. The minute I see Net Zero literature being shoved in my face as I walk through the door, I will be severing my tenuous connection with the Church of England entirely, knowing for sure that it has become a victim of institutionalised demonic possession. Covid was bad enough, with their stupid signs saying ‘Please wear a mask inside the Church’ or even encountering a locked door, thus banning one from entering the House of God because some neo-Marxists invented a ‘deadly pandemic’. But this is even worse in some respects.
2000 years of Christianity; it even weathered the storm of the Age of Reason and managed to live in peace with science, but now it ends up becoming the poodle of fake science! Jeez. What an ignominious end.
It’s ironic that with the internet creating the greatest democratisation of information in human history, we are in a sense entering a new Dark Age. Certain types of knowledge will be banned (government censorship), witch hunts of the non-believers (cancel culture) and promotion of scientific ignorance.