Talking at a Protestant competition in Germany, Quinton Caesar referenced racism, local weather change, and LGBTQ ideology in his sermon
A German pastor has been mocked and condemned for delivering a sermon filled with liberal catchphrases, together with the assertion that the Christian god is “queer.” In the meantime, document numbers of Germans are leaving the church.
Talking to attendees of the Evangelical Church Congress in Nuremberg on Sunday, Pastor Quinton Caesar declared that “now’s the time to say” that “black lives all the time matter,” that “God is queer,” and that migrants should be welcomed to Europe, amongst different liberal affirmations.
Whereas his speech was met with rapturous applause by the viewers, Christians on-line had been perplexed.
‘God is Queer’, declares pastor Quinton Caesar, who goes by she/her pronouns, at closing ceremony of the German Protestant Church Congress in Nuremberg. This comes months after Germany appointed its first federal Commissioner for Gender Variety. pic.twitter.com/m8bRaROKQX
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American Christian creator Michael Sebastian described Caesar’s speech as a “succinct description of all key factors of the Regime faith.” Conservative creator Auron MacIntyre accused progressives like Caesar of “hole[ing] out your faith and put on[ing] its pores and skin like a trophy,” whereas different commenters described the sermon as “disgusting,” “heretical,” and “Satanic.”
Caesar’s speech closed off a five-day congress that noticed 100,000 Protestants descend on Nuremberg for sermons, debates, and Christian music performances. Though the occasion will not be organized by the Evangelical Church in Germany – an umbrella group to which nearly all of German Protestants belong – it has been held yearly since 1949 and is a mainstay within the nation’s spiritual calendar.
Caesar, who’s initially from South Africa, describes himself on social media as an “activist pastor.” His views aren’t distinctive amongst Protestants, together with his speech coming per week after an Anglican church in London held a drag queen efficiency for native “LGBTQAI+ communities and different marginalised folks and teams.” A protestant church in Sweden additionally drew scathing criticism in 2019 for changing an altarpiece depicting Adam and Eve with one exhibiting gay {couples} in suggestive poses.
The Evangelical Church in Germany has allowed its pastors to officiate homosexual marriages since 2016, and certainly one of its bishops drew headlines in 2021 for publicly asking the LGBTQ neighborhood for “forgiveness” throughout a ‘Pleasure’ parade in Berlin.
Regardless of its embrace of the liberal world view, the church is quickly shedding members. A document 380,000 members resigned in 2022, up from the earlier document of 340,000 in 2021. The Catholic Church will not be faring any higher, shedding 359,000 members in 2021.
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