Oh, Archbishops, those funny fauna.

Oh religion, what a source of laughter. Here in Spain there's a saying: "si no quieres caldo, dos tazas" meaning that when you're not happy with some given situation, it'll go worse. And it proves true.

So I wasn't happy enough with my long-time favorite Primate Akinola, here it comes Archbishop Nzimbi of Kenya demanding that "a halt is not enough" measure from Episcopalian churches in the USA.  Instead, "What we expected to come from them is to repent - that this is a sin in the eyes of the Lord and repentance is what me, in particular, and others expected to hear coming from this church", said Nzimbi.

And as if that wasn't enough to make my day, here comes Catholic archbishop Francisco Chimoio in Mozambique, speaking with BBC:

"Condoms are not sure because I know that there are two countries in Europe, they are making condoms with the virus on purpose. They want to finish with the African people. This is the programme. They want to colonise until up to now. If we are not careful we will finish in one century's time."

I'd better go to bed before bishops in Jamaica start calling the BBC to make further statements.

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African Anglicans and the USA

While most of the blogosphere centers in the Larry Craig scandal/case, and you can find a lot of similar opinions out there, I'm likely to keep pointing to Africa-USA religious relationships. Not only Nigeria and Uganda, this time it's been Kenya (and formerly Tanzania) Anglican Church which is extending tentacles into US in the form of American Bishops paying allegiance to those Anglican National branches. Bishops Bill Murdoch, of Massachusetts, and Bill Atwood, of Texas, will be answerable to the Kenyan Church, although they will serve in the US, the decision taken because, of course, Episcopal Church is not having a sane, clearly Godly, stance on homosexuality. Fred writes about it on Jeckyll and F J Hyde blog: "This unacceptable and unconscionable bigotry does nothing more than further physical, emotional and spiritual violence against gays and lesbians".

Quite likely, Fred. However some of us have already chosen to leave those anti-gay churches, chapters, parishes and sects out of our life. And we're not less spiritually rich than they claim to be.

Any of these days I'll have to write my own rant about the matter. Maybe it's that those US bishops are trying to use African countries as guinea pigs, an experiment on how to forbid and punish homosexuality — and then transplant it to the States?

Technorati tags: Anglican Church, Kenya, USA, Homophobia, Religion