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[Loud Whispers]

Aw, nobody getting the joke about the Tangerine in Chief?

I always envisage him as more of a Peruvian caterpillar

[martinuzz]

Happy new year folks!

[martinuzz]

The Swedish church has changed Jesus from masculine to neutral, in hopes of reaching a larger public. When referring to Jesus in sermons, priests will henceforth use the new (since 2015) Swedish word 'hen'. Since 2015, the Swedish language union decided to make a gesture of goodwill to transexuals and other lgbt. Next to him (han) and her (hon), Swedish now also has it (hen), and now Jesus is an it too.

The bishop of Västerås has written a press statement in which he agrees with the transition.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Man, who would have thought that evangelical propaganda would end up being taken seriously years later?

For reaching a larger public, though? I don't see how that brings anybody over the line to attending church.

[smjjames]

The Swedish church has changed Jesus from masculine to neutral, in hopes of reaching a larger public. When referring to Jesus in sermons, priests will henceforth use the new (since 2015) Swedish word 'hen'. Since 2015, the Swedish language union decided to make a gesture of goodwill to transexuals and other lgbt. Next to him (han) and her (hon), Swedish now also has it (hen), and now Jesus is an it too.

The bishop of Västerås has written a press statement in which he agrees with the transition.

How exactly do you change Jesus from masculine to neutral? Remove the beard? The general representation of Jesus is as pretty close to neutral as it gets without removing the beard.

Unless Nordic churches like muscular Jesus for some reason.

*finishes reading the rest of the post*

Oh, gender-neutral language.

[scriver]

Swedish church is desperately clamouring from dying off by attempting to appeal to people who don't want to be in the church. Old news is old, Swedish Church keeps bleeding members like a medieval medical institution.

[Teneb]

Swedish church is desperately clamouring from dying off by attempting to appeal to people who don't want to be in the church. Old news is old, Swedish Church keeps bleeding members like a medieval medical institution.

By the way, could somone tell me what denomination the Swedish Church is? Some sort of protestant?

[SaberToothTiger]

Protestant and other reformed churches. If I remember correctly two largest churches (institutions not buildings) in Sweden are protestant, one more conservative and one more liberal.

[ChairmanPoo]

I assume this is the liberal one

[scriver]

The Swedish Church, which is the old state church, is protestant. Other protestant denominations are togetherly referred to as freereligious and not really differentiated between by people not in them.

[smjjames]

“He sees the queen in reality-TV show terms. That’s the Trump modus operandi," he said. "He will try to Trumpalize the queen and Buckingham Palace.”

rofl

Seems to me that'd make it even less likely that the Queen would accept a visit.

[Lovechild]

The Swedish church has changed Jesus from masculine to neutral, in hopes of reaching a larger public. When referring to Jesus in sermons, priests will henceforth use the new (since 2015) Swedish word 'hen'. Since 2015, the Swedish language union decided to make a gesture of goodwill to transexuals and other lgbt. Next to him (han) and her (hon), Swedish now also has it (hen), and now Jesus is an it too.

The bishop of Västerås has written a press statement in which he agrees with the transition.

Ah the classic "one tiny place in Sweden did this one thing, that means IT'S THE LAW IN ALL OF SWEDEN"

[Reelya]

When they say "Swedish Church" they don't mean one individual church they mean "The Church of Sweden" e.g. a national religious institution, analogous to the "The Church of England" which is the official state religion of England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Sweden

The membership of this "one tiny place in Sweden" is 61% of the national population.

In fact, until 1996 it was required by law that Swedes join this religion at birth. So that means the vast majority of adults in Sweden were legally forced in the past to be members of this specific "church" that made this specific ruling. So your entire rebuttal is in fact, pretty off.

[smjjames]

A female pope would be absolutely revolutionary for Catholics.

[Lovechild]

What I'm saying is that the statement "When referring to Jesus in sermons, priests will henceforth use the new (since 2015) Swedish word 'hen'." is false. Jesus was referred to with a gender neutral pronoun in an ad in a local Västerås paper. This caused some controversy. The bishop of Västerås made a statement where he said that Jesus, the human, was male, but shared the life of all humanity, regardless of gender.

A lot of the time when you hear crazy things about Sweden online, it's tiny things blown way out of proportion and mixed with pure fabrication.