Bishop:- Gays caused by pregnant women having anal sex.

[Dan From Smithville]

Wonderful that you should post that. Not so many years ago, Episcopalian Bishop John Shelby Spong actually wrote that his own clergy are trained NOT to let on what they actually know about scripture -- in other words, lie.

Spong? Is that a real name? I hope he did not give an sermons about sex.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Not teaching to primary school kids?
This nutter should be stopped from suggesting this ignorance to anybody!
Stuff like this can actually cause homophobic attacks on innocent people. It is so very very close to the crime of 'Incitement to commit..' as you can get in my opinion.

But the fact that he believes this stuff just shows the World how dangerous extremist Christian ideas can be.

I think I'll have a search around and see how materially comfortable this guy is.

True, but especially to vulnerable age groups. It is where the seeds get planted the deepest. I realized what I wrote there after I wrote it, but no pun was intended, nor am I trying to be funny.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Not teaching to primary school kids?
This nutter should be stopped from suggesting this ignorance to anybody!
Stuff like this can actually cause homophobic attacks on innocent people. It is so very very close to the crime of 'Incitement to commit..' as you can get in my opinion.

But the fact that he believes this stuff just shows the World how dangerous extremist Christian ideas can be.

I think I'll have a search around and see how materially comfortable this guy is.

It is some crazy s**t. I wonder what else he could better spend his time on than such nonsense.

 

[oldbadger]

Hi folks!

This priest has a law degree!

Here is the wiki intro.......................

Neophytos of Morfou

The Most Reverend Metropolitan Neophytos (Masouras) of Morfou is the Bishop of Morfou of the Church of Cyprus. The metropolis is located to the Turkish northern part of the island of Cyprus.

Life
Metr. Neophytos was born on January 21, 1962 in the village of Ano Zodhia. After completing his elementary education and the first three years of school at the C' Gymnasium at Morphou, he was forced to move to the B' Gymnasium at Acropolis in Nicosia to finish his pre-college education due to the invasion of Cyprus by Turkish forces. He graduated in 1979.

After finishing his education in Cyprus Neophytos entered the Law Faculty of the University of Athens in Greece, graduating in 1985. He remained in Greece after his graduation and was able to get acquainted with the new generation of the Orthodox Church in Greece, including Fr. Iacovos Tsalikis. Fr. Iacovos, Neophytos' confessor, inspired him to undertake monastic ideals. Under Fr. Iacovos' guidance, Neophytos returned to Cyprus in 1987 where he joined Ayios Georgios Kontas Monastery in Larnaca as a lay-brother.

While at the monastery, he was tonsured a monk and was ordained a deacon on December 27, 1987 by Metr. Chrysostomos of Kition. From 1990 to 1993, he was a member of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Kition Bishopric. In 1988, he entered the Theological Faculty of the University of the Athens from which he graduated in 1993. On December 19, 1993, Dn. Neophytos was ordained a priest and raised to the dignity of archimandrite by Metr. Chrysostomos. From 1996 to 1998, Archim. Neophytos served as a member of the Thronal Council of the Kition Bishopric.

In July 1994, Archim. Neophytos joined with Archim. Symeon to re-establish the Ayios Georgios of Mavronouni Monastery.

On August 22,1998, Archim. Neophytos was elected Bishop of Morphou by an assembly of clergy and people. He was consecrated and enthroned bishop on September 1998 at the temporary residence of the Morphou Bishopric in Evrychou, which is outside the Turkish area.

 

[oldbadger]

It is some crazy s**t. I wonder what else he could better spend his time on than such nonsense.

Hang Gliding. Hang gliding is very exciting.
Rock climbing.
Sky Scraper jumping? Obviously he would need a parachute for that.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Hang Gliding. Hang gliding is very exciting.
Rock climbing.
Sky Scraper jumping? Obviously he would need a parachute for that.

Does he really need a chute? Wouldn't he be carried safely to the ground by angels? He should give it a try and let us know how it works out. I would be fascinated by his experimental results.

 

[ChristineM]

Saying something is synthetic life,, when it's synthetically altered life is what? Intelectual dishonesty, or just plain lies

It is not altered life, the paper and many reports are available on the internet,

So what did you not understand about

new chromosome from artificial DNA

And

The man-made single cell "creature",

Sorry if it upsets your sensibilities but science progresses whether you like it or not

 

[SugarOcean]

Bible reading Christians? Yeah?
You've already told me that what it says in the NT is God's law, yes?
So you support the owning of slaves and you have surely read that slaves must even support hard masters?
You believe in tripe like homophobia... and slavery, etc?
You're not real Christians, imo.



True Christians sure don't read your stuff. Believe me.


You ignore nearly ALL of the Mosaic Laws!
You cherry-pick the ones you want to be hypocritical about.


You don't understand.
Paul was not married. He lived in to late 50s.
For a Jewish man to reach 30 and not be married, something was different. And Paul ranted against sexuality and gays, etc.
Methinks he did protest far too much.
I think Paul was a Gay ...........
But don't worry because Jesus did not mind about such things.



And that is where Christianity like yours shows its hypocrisy and wickedness.
You have ignored my repeated mentions of God's poor laws several times now, because you don't want to know 'em. So much for your brand of 'Christianity'.

The Baptist and Jesus would both have seen through your kind of Christianity for sure. But the more Churches that come across to love and understanding, to care in the community for all, these are the Churches that will eventually reduce the extremist Christian Churches away.

You should read the Mosaic laws more carefully and try to understand why they were made, and consider which ones can be put aside in modern times, AND WHICH ONES YOU SHOULD KEEP! (Which I don't think the extremists do )

Learn to love more, is my suggestion.

As I said, the Queen James Bible is no true word of God. Leave that alone and find Christ. Implying Paul was gay is not unusual for the queer lifestyle that thinks many people are homosexual, they are just afraid to admit it.
Seek Christ more is my suggestion. Donate your Queen James Bible to a bird sanctuary. They can always use cage liners.

 

[ChristineM]

Where did the DNA come from for these synthetic bacteria. I know, do you ?

It did not create itself from dead chemicals. It did not create the information it contained, nor did it code that information or put it in chains.

It was not created life. It was facsimilie life, in one case using living DNA from another organism, and in another case, using very inferior and crude man made DNA containing little information that created a poor doppelganger of life.

I am quite familiar with these, and they are not anything close to abiogenesis, or natural creation of life..

Your evidence is old, panned by those working on abiogenesis, and not at all what you promised.

You failed.

You will crow that you didn´t and do some hair splitting, but you did.

Read the paper.Man made synthetic life

And of course that is only one. How about
First Life with "Alien" DNA Created in Lab
Most definitely, no argument that the DNA was made from individual inert chemical bases

Yes it's old, 2010 and not refuted by anyone with scientific qualifications in the subject, unless of course you can provide citation for your claim, (creation sites do not count as valid science)

 

[ChristineM]

It's existing life with modified chromosome

What is so difficult to understand about 'new chromosome from artificial DNA'

 

[Subduction Zone]

That is interesting. My mother had nine children. I am number six and my little brother is number 7. Neither of us is gay. Of course, these are not absolutes and represent trends where the tendency to produce gay male children is greater in such families and not mandated to every such family. Still it is an interesting finding.

And it also explains how homosexuality can be an evolutionary plus. Biologically there is a surplus of males. One man can "service" several women. If a mutation raises female fecundity at the cost of slightly higher odds of a homosexual male child that is still a positive mutation.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Spong? Is that a real name? I hope he did not give an sermons about sex.

oh yes. It is. I have heard fundies fail against the man before. They hate him because he states the obvious: That a literal interpretation of the Bible is self refuting.re
John Shelby Spong - Wikipedia

He would not support the bishop in the OP.

 

[Darkforbid]

What is so difficult to understand about 'new chromosome from artificial DNA'

I can't be arsed arguing with someone on scientific who continues misrepresentation of scientists work, simply because being wrong is something there fragile ego cannot take

Royal Society Announcement: $10 Million Prize for Life’s Origin

 

[oldbadger]

As I said, the Queen James Bible is no true word of God. Leave that alone and find Christ. Implying Paul was gay is not unusual for the queer lifestyle that thinks many people are homosexual, they are just afraid to admit it.
Seek Christ more is my suggestion. Donate your Queen James Bible to a bird sanctuary. They can always use cage liners.

I am a Deist, but if I should become a Christian I certainly would not cling to such wicked tenets as homophobia, slavery, gender inequality, racism, religious bigotry and all the rest of the extremist garbage that psuedo Christians cling to.
I have never seen a QJV Bible, but you remind me of those few atheists who demand that the bible is all.myth, and here is you demanding that this QJV is all.myth. extremists together.

The true Jesus and his real story bears no likeness to yours imo. Yours would seem like a fairy tale if it was not so dreadfully wickedly dangerous, imo.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

how does such an ignorant man become a Bishop.
It says a great deal about those that appointed him.

 

[Kenny]

You're not making any sense and you're usually not like this. You okay?

My apologies. I guess I need Jesus too!

 

[ChristineM]

I can't be arsed arguing with someone on scientific who continues misrepresentation of scientists work, simply because being wrong is something there fragile ego cannot take

Royal Society Announcement: $10 Million Prize for Life’s Origin

Jolly good, Sorry if the paper offends you but not really my problem that you misrepresent it to agree with your ego?

There is a difference between creating synthetic life or alien life in the lab and abiogenesis.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I can't be arsed arguing with someone on scientific who continues misrepresentation of scientists work, simply because being wrong is something there fragile ego cannot take

Royal Society Announcement: $10 Million Prize for Life’s Origin

You appear to be projecting once again. You found a phrase that you love but oddly enough it always seems to apply to you when you use it.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I am a Deist, but if I should become a Christian I certainly would not cling to such wicked tenets as homophobia, slavery, gender inequality, racism, religious bigotry and all the rest of the extremist garbage that psuedo Christians cling to.
I have never seen a QJV Bible, but you remind me of those few atheists who demand that the bible is all.myth, and here is you demanding that this QJV is all.myth. extremists together.

The true Jesus and his real story bears no likeness to yours imo. Yours would seem like a fairy tale if it was not so dreadfully wickedly dangerous, imo.

There are Christians that do not have such beliefs. Unfortunately as you see they are labeled as "Not True Christians" by some.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

Spong? Is that a real name? I hope he did not give an sermons about sex.

He writes some very interesting stuff. I don't agree with everything he says, but I recommend him if you're up to having your preconceptions challenged.