Someone Please Tell the Church of England ...

Jesus was transcendent, not transgendered

Speculation that Jesus Christ might have been transgendered was “legitimate”, according to the dean of Trinity College in Cambridge.

The Telegraph reported that Reverend Dr Michael Banner defended a junior research fellow who claimed during last Sunday’s college chapel service that Jesus could have been trans.

The speaker, Joshua Heath, reportedly told the congregation that a Renaissance painting of Jesus’ crucifixion showed wounds on his body that had “a decidedly vaginal appearance”.

Heath, who judging by his sermon has never seen a vagina, directed the congregation to a 14th-century painting that depicted Jesus with a side wound, from which blood was streaming down to the groin.

“In Christ's simultaneously masculine and feminine body in these works, if the body of Christ [is] as these works suggest the body of all bodies, then his body is also the trans body,” Heath preached.

This is now the state of academia …

‘Jesus was transgendered because someone painting him more than a thousand years after his crucifixion depicted him with a stab wound that I imagine looks like a vagina.’

Not even Dan Brown’s Davinci Code was that stupid.

Next thing you know, an academic will stand up in a mosque and claim that Mohammed was "transgendered".

Maybe not.

Anyway, if academics can’t tell a stab wound from a vagina, no wonder students can’t figure out which bathroom they are supposed to use.

A congregation member reportedly complained to the Trinity College dean …

“I am contemptuous of the idea that by cutting a hole in a man, through which he can be penetrated, he can become a woman.

“I am especially contemptuous of such imagery when it is applied to our Lord, from the pulpit, at Evensong.

“I am contemptuous of the notion that we should be invited to contemplate the martyrdom of a ‘trans Christ’, a new heresy for our age.” 

Incredibly, college dean Rev Dr Banner defended the sermon and said he believed that “speculation was legitimate”.

According to The Telegraph, Rev Dr Banner replied to the complainant that medieval paints of Jesus provided us with ways of thinking about issues around transgender questions today.

He might have said the Bible provided us with ways of thinking, but that would have required the dean to have been thinking.

The dean wrote …

“For myself, I think that speculation was legitimate, whether or not you or I or anyone else disagrees with the interpretation, says something else about that artistic tradition, or resists its application to contemporary questions around transsexualism.”

For myself, I think speculation that Heath is a heretic and that Banner is an idiot is legitimate.

My friend Kirralie Smith, who works for an organisation called Binary, pointed out the hypocrisy of the left when it comes to Jesus.

“When they want to be offended, they’ll complain about the inaccuracy of religious artwork and ‘white Jesus’, but when it suits them, spear wounds to the ribs can be vaginas,” she said.

Indeed.

And why isn’t anyone cancelling Heath for failing to respect Jesus’ pronouns?

Progressivism, if not checked, will hollow out the Christian religion and wear its skin like a trophy.