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.
Not that these false Christians would care at Canterbury, but
Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever who stated in an update to the U.S. Senate Minority report for 2007 that “Global warming has become a new religion” and “I am a skeptic.” Later, in 20011, Giaver upped the ante by resigning from the American Physical Society, stating “"The claim … is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period."
Later The Word Climate Declaration, signed by 300 scientists, said simply on page one: “There is no climate emergency.” 300 scientists signed this, including Dr. John Clauser, the co-winner of the 2022 Nobel Physics prize, the 2010 winner of the Wolf Prize in physics (second most prestigious after the Nobel in science) and one the world’s leading authorities on quantum mechanics, who blasted the fake “climate emergency” and said it was a “dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.”
Dr. Clauser is in a collective of around 120 scientists and researchers representing a broad range of climate science disciplines, including Dr. William Happer, Emeritus Professor at Princeton, which say studies of climate provided strong evidence that there is no climate crisis, with Happer adding CO2 concentrations would actually benefit the world. Dr. Happer is a proponent of the “saturation” hypothesis of warming gases such as CO2, where at certain levels, such gases become saturated in small bands of the infrared spectrum, and then their warming ability diminishes on a logarithmic scale (which is what the the 600 million-year geological record tells us… along with the fact that CO2 measurements have been up to 20 times higher than current atmospheric levels.Top Nobel physicist plus 300 world renowned scientist? So when to we “follow the science” and get in line with that “consensus” thing again??
I studied under JI Packer, and attended St Johns Shaunessy Anglican in Vancouver for years. A few years ago, before he died, Packer was thrown out of the church as he would not bow before the LGBT Nazis.
Of course, the United Church Canada moderator a few years ago denied ALL of the basic tenets of orthodox Christianity, and they even have Mohammed as an official prophet. Seriously. Go look it up.
The Church of England has been going down the pan for year -perhaps decades - now.
That hippy commie Druid Williams was bad enough, but the current ex-oil company executive is downright dire.
Aside from locking down the CofE at the one point since WWII when his congregation really could have done with some compassion and moral support and retiring to his retreat in France for the duration his support for the dwindling number of real practising Christians left in his clergy is atrocious, I always thought Pride was one of the Seven Deadly Sins, especially when related to certain sexual activities, not something to be celebrated by draping flags on altars.
Our cats have more Christian bones in their bodies than that pretentious, pontificating waste of oxygen Welby, the very epitome of whited sepulchres.