There is great agitation in the Anglican Church caused by the election of an avowed homosexual to the post of bishop.

This has caused a storm of controversy among the clergy and parishioners, which is developing into an increasingly acrimonious argument.

Interestingly, the majority of those who are against the election of the gay bishop who are for the most part non-Western, while those who are arguing in favor are largely Westerners.

Another interesting fact is that those who are opposed to the openly homosexual priest’s elevation to bishop are threatening to break from the Anglican Church in order to form their own church if their wishes are ignored.

Here is another example, it seems to me, of how Westerners give themselves the right to change even Christian scriptures to suit their whims, and in the process trample all over the religious sensibilities of other Christians who are unfortunate enough not to have been born in the West.

The West today is following a secular-materialist philosophy, which it imposes on all other human beings — whether they like it or not.

Its Christian leaders in this example prefer to follow the supposedly liberal Western ideology and encourage the idea that a person should be allowed to act on whatever their sexual preference is, because that amounts to “personal freedom”, while in the process ignoring two millennia of Christian teachings and the Bible (both Old and New Testaments) which state the opposite.

Then, having trampled over centuries of doctrine, they go on to trample over the religious sensibilities of all their non-Western “brothers” and impose their decision by elevating one of their own Western homosexuals to the position of bishop of the Anglican Church. They are exploiting the poverty and vulnerability of their non-Western “brothers” by ignoring their more traditional views.

The African, Asian and Latin American branches of the Anglican Church are faced with the choice of acceding to their Western “brothers” (“It’s my way or the highway!”) or to accept the inevitable negative consequences.

So we learn an important lesson on the respect Westerners have for religion and how they deal with any religion that does not conform to their “liberal” ideology. After all, does that non-Westerner Jesus (peace be upon him) know more about Christianity than an American or British bishop?

If this is how they deal with their own religion, think what they will try (are already trying) to do with other religions such as Islam.