HebrideanUltraTerfHecate on Nostr: https://thecritic.co.uk/electronic-exodus/ There’s plenty to object to on Twitter, ...
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There’s plenty to object to on Twitter, of course, but just what the modern day Church of England finds morally intolerable, and what it doesn’t, is highly illustrative. Bristol is certainly desperate to please its progressive parishioners, declaring a “climate emergency” in 2019, and removing monuments to those linked to the slave trade in 2020. Indeed so passionate was the radical feeling that one local priest attempted to deface Magna Carta on behalf of Just Stop Oil. Rather less enthusiasm was shown when it came to dealing with John Smyth, who was educated at the evangelical Trinity theological college in Bristol. Apparently nobody in the diocese or at the college, including then principal George Carey, knew anything about his abuse. This despite the fact, as found by Keith Makin in his independent report, that multiple dioceses had rejected Smyth, and his utter unsuitability, and possibly even his abuse, was known. Yet Bristol, and its flagship theological college, let the wolf in the door.
And it is Winchester, which so coyly departed Twitter for Bluesky, where much of Smyth’s worst abuse was perpetrated. Winchester was one of the dioceses that had earlier blocked his ordination, strongly implying they knew he was unsuitable for ministry. Despite this fact, the diocese allowed him unfettered access to Winchester College, where at least 16 boys were viciously abused, and he continued to act as a lay reader, a position which lent him credibility and helped give him access to his victims.
It may just be a coincidence that two of the dioceses most implicated in Smyth’s abuse chose to leave Twitter at a time when outrage at child abuse cover-ups was surging across the platform, without censorship or concern for political correctness — but it certainly isn’t, as they say, a “good look”.
There’s plenty to object to on Twitter, of course, but just what the modern day Church of England finds morally intolerable, and what it doesn’t, is highly illustrative. Bristol is certainly desperate to please its progressive parishioners, declaring a “climate emergency” in 2019, and removing monuments to those linked to the slave trade in 2020. Indeed so passionate was the radical feeling that one local priest attempted to deface Magna Carta on behalf of Just Stop Oil. Rather less enthusiasm was shown when it came to dealing with John Smyth, who was educated at the evangelical Trinity theological college in Bristol. Apparently nobody in the diocese or at the college, including then principal George Carey, knew anything about his abuse. This despite the fact, as found by Keith Makin in his independent report, that multiple dioceses had rejected Smyth, and his utter unsuitability, and possibly even his abuse, was known. Yet Bristol, and its flagship theological college, let the wolf in the door.
And it is Winchester, which so coyly departed Twitter for Bluesky, where much of Smyth’s worst abuse was perpetrated. Winchester was one of the dioceses that had earlier blocked his ordination, strongly implying they knew he was unsuitable for ministry. Despite this fact, the diocese allowed him unfettered access to Winchester College, where at least 16 boys were viciously abused, and he continued to act as a lay reader, a position which lent him credibility and helped give him access to his victims.
It may just be a coincidence that two of the dioceses most implicated in Smyth’s abuse chose to leave Twitter at a time when outrage at child abuse cover-ups was surging across the platform, without censorship or concern for political correctness — but it certainly isn’t, as they say, a “good look”.