Peter Hitchens Comments on Archbishop’s Tinkering With Our Father

Edit: as I watched this, I couldn’t help but be a little cynical since it was Henry VIII who really kicked this sort of thing off in the first place. Surely, this ridiculous clown Archbishop is an evil clown, but he’s only following a precedent established long ago by other clowns and their apologists. This gender-inclusive specious line of argument has been sort of persisting for years with various adherents voicing their concerns, like among the Methodists and at your weirdo Newman Center, where the personal experience of abuse, particularly of women and effeminate males, is used as a pretext to remove gendered terms for God the Father. 

So why is it being dealt with now with such earnestness by official conservative spokespersons like Peter Hitchens as if this is some kind of new sensation that shakes the Church of England? It’s not like some Father Geraldine Granger in a colorful jumper hasn’t already had a go at making church more friendly and inclusive.  These media generated circuses really make you wonder, so programmatic and astroturfed.

It’s almost like these fuddy-duddies,

like the stodgy comic villains of a tedious Romcom, complaining about attempts to make the Church more relevant are even less relevant than the initiatives they mock.

There’s also the issue of Hitchen’s former Trotskyism and his heritage as a Jew. Some may remember that he has played a role in opposition to his more widely esteemed brother and war mongering Trotskyist, Christopher. What he may lack for in effective solutions to deal with these kinds of modernizing and very tired clichés, he more than makes up for it in terms of framing the discussion for the hoi polloi to be corralled and counted.

If he really wanted to do something, he’d become a Catholic and address the Jewish Question with fairness and honesty, but he gets extremely testy when these things are brought up.

 AMDG