Read more about Taylor and his decison at the link.Vicar-turned-author Rev G P Taylor says he will desert the "sinking ship" Church of England, which he said was the "spiritual arm of New Labour", for Roman Catholicism.
The Rev Taylor, whose children's book Shadowmancer became an international best-seller, said he was turning instead to the Roman Catholic church, which he believes is less afraid to stand up for important moral issues.
Writing in the Yorkshire Post, he said the Church of England had ''sunk into a liberal pit that was no earthly use and offered no hope, no love and no grace''.
He added: ''It was going through the motions of faith and was largely irrelevant to the people it once thought it served. 'Like so many other Anglicans, I am at that place where I feel I must desert a sinking ship.''
Rev Taylor said: ''The Church I once loved has become the spiritual arm of New Labour.''
The author said many bishops ''spend more time preaching about climate change or dressing up as Druidic bards than preaching a gospel of salvation that would cure the ills of society overnight if properly embraced''.
Best-selling Anglican author prepares to "desert a sinking ship"
Saturday November 7, 2009
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Noted British author G. P. Taylor is about to swim the Tiber:
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These passages say that life starts from conception, and therefore abortion is murder:
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.Psalm 139:13
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.
Jeremiah 1:5
This one says that the life of a mother is more important that a foetus:
If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life.
Exodus 21:22-23
And there are many like Exodux 20:12 Do not kill
But the word "abortion" is never mentioned in the Bible.
@Your Name,
Yes, perhaps you are right, no telling what sort of editorial control Mr. Taylor had over the article about his conversion. His remarks about druids and sinking ships continue to remain offensive. So perhaps the Telegraph has a vested interest in selling is book on the back of this man's religious intolerance.
Bigot Franklin Jennings:
An epithet is NOT an argument. merely a sign of ignorance.
By your remarks attacking the Bible as written in the language which God spoke, and the view of the fetus expressed therein (which is preserved by Judaism) you have outed yourself as an anti-Semite.
I will forward your name to the Anti-Defamation League to be placed on their watchlist.
so-called Christian ("Pharisee" would be a more accurate name):
get your facts straight!
Ex. 21 is the only passage in the Bible which directly relates to the abortion issue. It is a legal text, which means it is meant to be authoritative (unlike poetic texts, characterized by hyperbole, such as the ones you cite in Psalms and Jeremiah).
LET ME refresh you memory: in the revelation at Sinai, God did not reveal hymns or dogmas or doctrine but LAWS! Fool!
That is the Semitic way, and is as true of the Qur'an and Islam as well as the Hebrew Bible and Judaism: lore is wonderful and uplifting, but it is law/behavioral prescription which counts.
The CORRECT translation of the commandment regarding bloodshed is "thou shalt not MURDER." And since a fetus is not a full human being but property, its demise is not murder.
(Further proof that the (Catholic) mistranslation as "kill" is wrong: the Pentateuch notes 36 offenses deemed capital crimes.
A God who so ordains capital punishment and then says "thou shalt not kill" is a hypocrite, pure and simple. Is that your God, "Christian"?
Amen, brother Bradley!
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