News: Aussie Cleric Tells It Straight
Dr Francis Macnab of St Michael’s Uniting Church in Melbourne, Australia is very much part of the progressive Christian vanguard. Christian traditionalists will be shocked and free thinkers will applaud…
“THE TEN Commandments, one of the most negative documents ever written.” With that provocative claim posted high over two city streets, controversial cleric Francis Macnab yesterday launched “a new faith for the 21st century”, a faith beyond orthodox Christianity.
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Dr Macnab says Abraham is probably a concoction, Moses was a mass murderer and Jesus Christ just a Jewish peasant who certainly was not God. In fact, there is no God, in the usual sense of an interventionist deity - what we strive for is a presence both within and beyond us.
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“The old faith is in large sections unbelievable. We want to make the new faith more believable, realistic and helpful in terms of the way people live,” he said. (Read article in The Age newspaper 16 Sep 2008)
Useful links
Previous church addresses:
http://www.stmichaels.org.au/dr-macnab/previous-addresses
The Jesus Seminar (progressive Christian academic group):
http://www.westarinstitute.org/Jesus_Seminar/jesus_seminar.html
Alex McCullie
