I’ve been watching the recent antics of some of the Church of England clergy recently with a sense of shaking my head and sighing.  The sight of our state religion (don’t get me started on seperation of church and state) descending into farce is in equal parts amusing and sobering.

This article from BBC News covers the latest development, and the comments thread under “Have Your Say” is well worth a browse.  I’ve written before about my view that women have an absolutely vital positive role in human spirituality, and also my views on gender roles.

So, this along with the attitude to gay clergy is quite frankly where I begin to wonder if the Anglicans realise that they’ll come out of this looking quite so shabby, it’s sobering to realise that some of them may not.

I can certainly see the point that people project their own fears and inadequacies through their god for psychological reasons.  A sexist, racist or homophobe could (and do) do that, it makes sense as a tactic from their point of view.  The most interesting investigation would into their reasons for doing so, why they fear so these thing so much.  I think that their time would be better spent coming to terms with their own fears and insecurities, rather than making everyone elses live miserable.

Anyway, there’s something I think needs to be done and as luck would have it someone else has done it already.  To help answer and dismiss the charge that half the human race is less worthy spiritually than the other I offer this essay, which covers women in the early church.

Interesting, yes?  Especially the part about the Gospel of Luke, which shows the approach of Jesus in more detail.  This disregarding of the example of their religions’ founder is not new.  I’ll have a think before I post again, as I have more to say on that, which will unfortunately need a more confrontational post than my usual modus operandi.