What Martin Modéus is actually saying - Olof Edsinger
From FSAOF blog - Translation Sven Ljungholm
The discussions about biblical interpretations and viewpoints that have long been expressed within the Christian churches have in recent days also moved into the national press. Not totally unexpected, it is the (church's) perspective of homosexuality that has come into focus. We are many, of course, who’d wish that they rather talked about something of a more general concern, but we don’t choose the era in which we live, so unfortunately it’s just a matter of accepting the situation. Issues related to sex, relationships and marriage are, of course, also very important - both for society and for the individuals concerned with these issues.
On Monday Bishop Martin Modéus wrote a post in Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish Daily-pages) Opinion, where he went heavy handed in an attack on 22 Pentecostal pastors who on Friday spoke out on these issues in Dagen (Today – a Sweden’s large Christian daily). As a priest and bishop Modéus has many virtues, and his letters contain a good number of choice comments about the Christian faith’s message of love. But beyond this - what is it really that one of the Swedish Church's foremost representatives says? Let me give some examples of what I find is deeply problematic - if not dishonest.
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