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.
Indeed. I am packing up and leaving, myself. I have had quite enough of their nonsense. More to the point, the church has been run by political interest rather than religious for many years, and this is merely the most glaring effect that has caused. It is not about to change, and thus, I am off. Perhaps, however, forcing out people who does not appreciate one thousand years of continued tradition and heritage being flushed away to make room for the latest ideological fad, is something the current management finds appealing.
All together, I am much rather alone than in bad company.
By the way, could somone tell me what denomination the Swedish Church is? Some sort of protestant?
Evangelical Lutheran, I was told.
Well, yes and no. Most Swedes are registered CoS member, but overall church attendance is like, 4-5% so most "members" won't ever hear a sermon preached with the new pronoun.
P.S. It's muy understanding that Swedes were registered a CoS if one parent was a member prior to 1996, not that all Swedes were required to be members. If anything that means it affects even less people, since a lot of those "members" are only marked as such before they were required to be.
That is true. Membership was an opt-out affair in the past, since it was the state church. Of course, in the 18th and 19th centuries, not being a part of it was very much illegal. Often, change is for the better, but then it is liable to go much too far, as in this case.
Of course, most people do not attend regular service, or consider themselves Christian or religious, and tend to think of themselves as Atheistic. Then, when something happens, they tend to return to the traditions, and the church becomes an institution of comfort and stability. The Scandinavian is a more spiritual creature than he likes to talk of, when the days are dark and the going is rough.
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.
Often, yes, and in this case, it is the use of enforced gender-neutral language. That is not entirely true. However, scripture and sermons are being modified to avoid or change terms that is disagreeable through a modern, ideological lense. Such as the term 'Lord', both a male specific term and not as close, lovely special buddy that the current church direction has emphasised in many years.
It is dramaticised, but it is true that old heritage is being changed as part of a strange modernisation effort, mainly run by the political factions in church management.
And while we are here, I would like to thank you. Often, people cannot make it through the head-line. I admire good readership.
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