{"id":210,"date":"2010-07-12T21:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2010-07-12T22:07:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T22:07:05","slug":"church-synod-allows-jewish-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/12\/church-synod-allows-jewish-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Church synod allows Jewish bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England&#8217;s ruling synod has decided that all bishops must be at least 20% Jew, but there are further steps to take before they can be ordained. <\/p>\n<p>Despite criticisms that this was &#8216;almost as stupid as Christianity itself&#8217; mad churchey types everywhere agreed that the current system was anti-Semitic. <\/p>\n<p>Rowan Williams remarked &#8216;if it&#8217;s good enough for Jesus it&#8217;s good enough for bishop[s]&#8217;, to which newly bishopped Aaron Adelstein replied &#8216;Jesus? That tawdry street performer?&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>Since the Catholic church allowed a non-celibate Muslim, &#8216;Randy&#8217; Rawahah, to be The Pope last yeah the Church of England has been under increasing pressure from pressure group&#8217;s such as Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8216;The Church of Hitler more like&#8217;. This follows Spielberg&#8217;s recent revelation that the Ralph Fiennes character in Schindler&#8217;s List was actually a subtle allegory of The Church of England. <\/p>\n<p>But while this flippant parody fizzles out it is important to stress that there are arguments on both sides&#8230; of the argument:<\/p>\n<p>If The Church of England can&#8217;t be racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semite, idiotic,&#8230; etc, who can be?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m satired of this shit,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" border=\"0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/images\/signature.png\" width=\"195\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England&#8217;s ruling synod has decided that all bishops must be at least 20% Jew, but there are further steps to take before they can be ordained. Despite criticisms that this was &#8216;almost as stupid as Christianity itself&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/12\/church-synod-allows-jewish-bishops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[44,28,25,51,31,18,43,24,45,19],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searing-political-satire","tag-bishop","tag-christianity","tag-jesus","tag-judaism","tag-misogyny","tag-politics","tag-pope","tag-religion","tag-rowan-williams","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}