In the Name of the Mother, the Daughter and…

ROGER WATSON

Anglicans across the world must be so relieved that the newly confirmed – although not yet installed – Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Doollaly*, is going to focus on misogyny (does anyone else have problems spelling that word?) in her new role as head of the Anglican community worldwide. The country is facing a spiritual crisis, Anglican clergy mostly face empty pews on a Sunday morning, and we are in imminent danger of becoming an Islamic country.

Empty Pews, Full Echo Chambers

But Sarah has decided to focus on a non-issue that will make her popular within her own echo chamber and accelerate all the problems – outlined above – from which we are suffering. It must rankle the rampant feminist who is soon to occupy Lambeth Palace that God is identified as ‘He’ and that Jesus was the ‘Son of God’. The third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, is not ascribed a gender in the Bible so that may be a relief to her. But two out of three must be two too many. It’s too bad for our Sarah that the misogyny, at which she takes such offence, starts right at the top.

Mary: Too Catholic for Canterbury

Of course, she could simply ignore the first two persons of the Holy Trinity and focus on the Mother of God, the Virgin Mary who, as far as we can tell, was a woman. But that presents a problem for the Rev Doolally. Apart from a few in the Anglo-Catholic community, most Anglicans do not hold Mary in any high regard.

Most certainly they do not, as we Roman Catholics do, accept Mary as an intercessor with her son Jesus. As far as I know, only we Catholics consider Mary to be the Queen of Heaven, something that fairly gets our Protestant detractors leaping about with indignation that anyone other than Jesus should be considered to rule.

The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury is not an Anglo-Catholic, so the road to elevating Mary – even if just to reset the misogynist imbalance – for higher regard by Anglicans is not open to her. She is a liberal theologian more affiliated with the evangelical end of the Anglican spectrum. What’s more, the Virgin Mary never ‘called out’ misogyny and got told what to do by a male angel in obedience to a God characterised as male. Tut, tut!

I was interested to read that her husband was brought up as a Catholic which only leads me to question how thin on the ground the talent was in his parish church if he decided to marry Ms Doolally. This brings me to another point about female Church of England clergy… (Editor: the rest of this paragraph was redacted on the grounds of misogyny).

The Hammer of Perpetual Offence

The problem for people with warped worldviews like Sarah Doolally, is that they carry the hammer of the perpetually offended – and wield it at every problem they see from whatever their adopted position is. Thus, the anti-racists see everything that is wrong from a racism perspective, gay activists from a homophobic perspective, trans activists from a transphobic perspective, and the Labour Party from an Islamophobic perspective.

Sarah’s adopted position is feminism; thus, everything will be called out, not in the name of The Father, but in the name of misogyny. The lack of women priests will be misogyny as will the lack of female Anglican Archbishops (only 50% so far), racism, transphobia etc will all have misogyny at their roots.

Some Misogyny Is More Equal Than Others

But you can bet your Maundy Money that the religion of peace will ‘get a bye’ on the misogyny front. No matter how many women walk about our streets peering out of slits, are otherwise confined to quarters, forced to marry their cousins and no matter how many honour killings, Muslim rape gangs and the disproportionate number of sexual assaults carried out by hordes of priapic immigrants – she’ll remain silent on that one.

To dare criticise the one true religion would be Islamophobia and, as we all know, that too stems from misogyny. If you don’t believe me then search ‘Sarah Mullaly on Muslim rape gangs’ in Google. At least ‘who is considered to be the most attractive female vicar in the Church of England’ got a few returns – although the results were disappointing. On the Muslim question – zilch.

The Anglican Church is surely doomed, not because the next Archbishop of Canterbury is a woman (well, not entirely) but because of what she stands for. That and the fact that the head of the Church – that’s the King remember – is an Islamic obsessive with only a loose grip of Christian theology. The Roman Catholic Church may benefit from an influx of disillusioned clergy and faithful but, even as a Roman Catholic, I would rather the Church of England become what it is meant to be.

*I must thank the wonderful columnist Steven Tucker for first using this name

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Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.

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